[Discuss] Limiting recruitment to centres from the region/duchy (not recruiting within the duchy)

[psymann]

Ok, you've successfully put down most of the ideas - so I'll concentrate 
on Dorian's idea that I still think has promise:

Robert Croson, Jr wrote:
> psymann wrote:
>> A third estate option, for drafting, could be an interesting option. 
> 
> Possibly. It would require the readjustment of all estate requirements to adjust 
> for the fact that yet another estate requirement needs to be filled. We already 
> have regions that can barely meet their estate requirements already. Putting in 
> a third estate requirement will now mean that every regions has to have at least 
> two knights, and that doesn't account for any "back up" knights to cover estates 
> if one leaves.

No, it wouldn't require more knights.  Say you normally had three 
knights, one on production and two on authority.  Now, you have to 
include military-drafting in there as well.  All you do is switch one of 
the authority estates to military for a short period of time.  During 
this time, region stats may suffer, but such is the price of drafting. 
You can always liaise with a bureaucrat to help during the drafting 
period.  Then the estate is set back to authority, and everything gets 
back to normal.

You could alternatively have a fourth knight, just set up for military. 
  This would mean less gold for all knights/lord of the region, which 
would be the penalty.  Alternatively, there could be a negative effect 
from the military one, such that leaving it on military for more than a 
couple of days would harm the region, if you wanted to remove an 
advantage from having extra knights.

And to avoid you having to click buttons, you could set it up to "switch 
to military for [3] days" and enter a number in the box when you change 
it.  That way you don't have to leave the battle to return to put it 
back later.  If you want to make it even easier to stay in the battle, 
then let people manage their estates from anywhere.

>> And if you have the options of switching between drafting 
>> and the other options, and the region would suffer a penalty when you're 
>> drafting, then knights have more to do with their estates than just set 
>> them up at the beginning and forget about them.  Would be even better, I 
>> reckon, if only knights, and not lords, could do the drafting (or 
>> possibly just knights do it more effectively) so that there is more of a 
>> need for a lord to use his knights to help in his region.  Make them 
>> earn their taxes.
> 
> Again, you're increasing the drudge work on the knights. Creating make-work 
> for the knights will not the game more fun for them.

I don't think I'm increasing drudge work.  All I meant by 
"knights...could do the drafting" is that the knights' estates would be 
the ones able to be set to a military setting, or would be more 
effective in a military setting.  That gives them more chance to make an 
impact and feel that what they are doing is worthwhile.  Otherwise 
they'd just have their estates set normally all the time, and it would 
always be the Lord who did the drafting, which wouldn't make it much 
more interesting for the knight.

psymann


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