I was trying to see if you would agree in principle to the feature, with the mechanism to be determined later, rather than asking if you would agree to this method or that one.
Missing the point there. This is all about the mechanism, because the game doesn't prevent a ruler from also being duke and lord. It's just that some ways of getting there aren't supported by the current mechanisms.
This seems pretty reasonable. Would you be willing to support this? Either as creating the Duchy with the Ruler as both Lord and Duke, or as creating it with just that region in it, and no Duke yet (the Ruler could then appoint a Duke, who could appoint himself Lord, or not)?
No.
I don't know what this is supposed to be, but it feels totally wrong. It's a gamey solution for a gamey problem, instead of something that makes IC sense. And I still don't see what the generic problem is, because all of this started due to one very particular issue. One where I personally would be comfortable to say: "Sorry you can't. Why not give someone else a shot at being duke?"
