[Discuss] Claims [was: Re: Change to positions]

[Tom Vogt]

Christopher Subich schrieb:
> You bring up a very interesting point here... why is it that a region 
> without a lord is still perfectly well-behaved?
>
> As it stands now, a region without a lord is perfectly fine -- from 
> what I've seen of daily region reports, it's even quite happy because 
> it gets only half the tax rate as the rest of the realm.  This is 
> nonsensical.
>
> We're talking about dirty peasants off by themselves, without the firm 
> guiding hand of a noble (and his steward / administration staff) to 
> manage the region.  These peasants wouldn't still be working their 
> arses off in every way but tax payments.
>
> They'd probably keep farming enough to feed themselves, but that's 
> about it really -- nobody would be there to make them work the rest of 
> the fields.  And idle hands are the devil's playthings, so unrest 
> would increase.
With local taxes comes the long-not-really-fully-working maintainance 
system.

No taxes == no maintainance
No maintainance == all workshops, recruitment centers, etc. will deteriorate

Leave a region without a lord for enough time and you can start it over 
from scratch.
Fair enough?

I do, however, like the idea of stopping recruits from signing up. 
That's easy to implement and I think I'll add it very quickly.