Author Topic: Distance from the capital and anarchists  (Read 4947 times)

Chenier

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I see.

Problem with Dwilight though is it's !@#$ geography. Unless you are Luria, you are almost certain to have a capital that's placed ridiculously eccentrically (most blatant example: Madina). And when it's relatively central, it's likely because your realm is super linear anyways so you still don't get many regions in that radius from capital (most blatant example: D'Hara). Even Luria has a big lake in the middle, though.

Distance from capital restrictions don't, imo, favor "small" realms anywhere near as much as it favors "realms that are centered in ideal locations with tight city clusters". Feels to me like basing on number of regions would be a more universally fairer mechanic.

Which could include an aspect about duchies. Right now, other than for vanity or paying players off, a realm has no incentive to create duchies. Single-duchy realms have the significant advantage of everyone getting their taxes in gold in the whole realm and all duchy bonuses being realm-wide.

If the old distance penalties were restored (they seemed more appropriate then, imo, only applying to really stretched realms) and compensated by a two-layer regions per realm/regions per duchy penalty, THAT would favor smaller realms as well as incentivize power distribution, with no regard to geography (and thus not favoring realms that are already favored). It could also apply to population instead of pure region count, though, which would be fairer to rebuilding realms that can't always afford to move their capitals to more central locations or split their duchies yet.
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