[Discuss] Testing Changes

[Josiah Allen]

On 1/9/07, Tom <tom at lemuria.org> wrote:
>
> The changes currently being done on testing:
>
> http://wiki.battlemaster.org/index.php/Allegiance
>
>
> This will replace both the old liege and the new oaths system. It's a
> merger of both with the best features of each.
>
>
> The most important changes:
>
> * Like the new oaths system, knights are recruited by offers of tax shares
> * Unlike the new oaths system, and like the old hierarchy, oaths are by
> region, not by person. You are a knight of Castle Ubent, not of Burning
> Hawk. So if the region lord is removed or exchanged, oaths remain.
> * Unlike both systems, this is now a strict bottom-up, local feudalism
> system. That means one big thing:
> * Changes propagate down.
>    * If a duchy changes realm (e.g. by secession, or by its duke
> switching sides), then all regions in the duchy follow
>    * If a region changes its duchy (or follows it into another realm),
> all knights follow
>    * If a knight changes region, his troops follow (as it is already)
>
> Everyone also changes on their level. A knight doesn't usually change to
> another realm - he changes to another liege in another region. If that
> region happens to be in another realm, he will also change realm. But in
> order to change realm now, you will have to find a lord who takes you as
> a knight.
>
>
>
> That and many more exciting things are possible with this new
> "best-of-breed" system. The problem is that since hierarchy is such a
> central part of the game, it was impossible to do the change without
> major breakage.
>
> Sorry.
>
> I trust in you all to roleplay whatever odd situations may appear, and
> resolve them in-game if at all possible. And I'm still working on things
> as we speak. In a few days, things should be going smooth again. Until
> then, it'll be a bit of rough sailing, but then again, it's called the
> "testing" branch for a reason.
>
>
>
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Does knights following a region include takeovers?

(i.e., South Keplerstan takes Mt. Keplar from North Keplarstan.  Do all
knight of Mt. Keplar now serve South Keplerstan??)

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