[Discuss] Recruiting and banking in Capitol

[Anthony Cerqueira]

On 6/8/06, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >  Maybe an Idea to be able to recruit only the regions RC troops?
> >  Now we can only do this in stronghold/city to place or add Militia
> (Wich
> > was a very cool feature to, sometimes unmissable).
> >
> >  But I think a Townsland lord (Marquish) should at least be able to
> recruit
> > there own troops.
>
> I believe the only suggestion along those lines that Tom didn't
> immeadiately shoot down was recruiting from your duchy's city (and
> only there, not the capital as well).  That idea would almost
> certainly stop people moving the capital nearer the border, because it
> wouldn't have any effect. (Other than for unaligned nobles, but with
> the new hierarchy system hopefully coming along soon, there will
> probably be very few unaligned nobles around).  It would also add a
> new element for oaths between lords and their dukes - promising to
> supply a certain number of troops for recruitment each week. (An
> option to "turn off" recruitment centres in protest would be nice to
> go along with that)
>
> I do quite like the idea of a lord getting gold from his region - he
> should be able to collect his region share in gold by visiting his
> region.  Sending that gold to the capital with the rest of the taxes,
> only to get it sent back again as bonds doesn't make any sense IC, and
> there isn't much chance of OOC abuse.  It would make fighting far from
> home easier (which is something Tom's tried to avoid) for lords with
> regions on the nearest border, but not much easier.
>
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You beat me to it Thomas. ;) I was going to mention that very thing again
(been a bit since I did) Tom did say that he liked my idea but nothing ever
came of it. Course he's a busy guy and we've gained about 50 million other
things so who's complaining?
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