[Discuss] Buy Claim

[Timothy Collett]

On Jun 25, 2007, at 12:08 PM, Samuel Knowlton wrote:
>>> Remove appointment by the ruler or Duke as an option in cases where
>>> there is *any* claimant within the realm, no matter how weak.
>
> This is the only provision I'm not sure about. It's going to result  
> in a lot more monarchies (and there are already many of these).  
> Republics and Democracies still have a sovereign -- it's just that  
> that sovereign is either several people (ala Lasanar) or simply  
> beholden to an electorate.

The reason I put this in here is, as I said in another post, to  
remove the possibility of realms from making "realm policies" that  
prohibit people from getting their titles by claiming them, and  
saying that only a position granted directly by the Ruler/Duke is valid.

You will note I did put in the possibility of allowing the Ruler to  
call for an election for a particular region--that actually becomes a  
pretty strong power when personal region claims can far outlast the  
character's actual tenure as Lord.  That means that he's creating a  
new claim, and granting it to the winner of the election, who will  
keep it for a very long time.  (There should obviously be *some*  
strictures on this, like limiting the # of times/month you can do it,  
but you get the idea).

Timothy Collett
Anaris Family

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