Royal Dukes (was [Discuss] Royal Status)

[Robert Croson, Jr]

On 2 Oct 2006 at 12:10, Loren Schmidt wrote:

> On 10/2/06, Alex Davies <the1exile at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>     That's what he WANTS to happen. There is no 
>     motivation for this character
>     other than pure hatred to do what he is doing now. He's 
>     starving a severely
>     underpopulated city and depriving it of any gold for tax 
>     collection,
>     disbanding all miltia, simply for that reason, that if 
>     anyone wants to waltz
>     in and take it, they can, but it will be effectively useless 
>     to them and he
>     will have, very effectively, screwed both his own and the 
>     invading realm
>     over. Mission accomplished; he can no head off into the 
>     blue laughing his
>     head off for the years of damage he did. 
> 
> Well, if he didn't abuse the mechanics in getting there, then perhaps you should've been more 
> careful in the first place.There are maniacal leaders out there even today who would rather see 
> their country crumble than give up power. I guess it's just a lesson for all of us to protect 
> yourselves. 
> 
>     And that will still leave the realm in exactly the same 
>     position as it is
>     now; dying and without a hope to survive. 
> 
> Perhaps it doesn't deserve to 'live' then. People are not entitled to see their realm survive. 
> Especially if it is because they didn't take adequate measure to protect themselves. 
> 
>     No matter what, he still rakes in 25% of his region tax, 
>     something no-one
>     can do anything about. 
> 
> Not if you give him the maximum fine, each and every day he refuses to step down. Even if they 
> do get some gold, it's more golds for you to fund a rebellion. Set the region share to as low as 
> you can. There are a myriad of ways to get around it.

I have to agree with all of this. Anyone who could possibly look at the family 
history of this guy and say to themselves "Hey, I think this guy would make a 
great Duke" has to be nuts. This particular realm has backed themselves into a 
corner, and brought all these problems on themselves. My advice to anyone in 
this realm is to either run for the border, or just dig in and hope that he 
eventually gets bored of tearing down the kingdom and goes to destroy 
someone else's realm.