[Discuss] New Tax System

[Robert Baar]

> If you think on a national level, that is weird and doesn't make 
> sense, yes.
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> Unfortunately for you, nationalism is an invention of considerably 
> later than the time period BM is set in.
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> On the local level, you have your estate there. You probably invested 
> 75 gold to enlarge it. Your home is there. What's the better decision 
> for the game - to let you keep your assets and give you a choice to 
> move away and re-join a different (possibly your old) realm, or to 
> take everything away from you except for some banner?
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So we scrap nationalism, and make realms consist of loosely united 
regions within a border.  They basically live separate existences except 
for times of war.  I also like the idea of having local lords have more 
control over their food distribution by limiting the bankers override 
feature.  I would like to see it go even further.  Allow for internal 
combat.  Let's say Region A is causing problems by refusing to send his 
tithing to the realm or food to starving regions or is just being a 
general pain in the backside and has holed himself up in his region with 
his knights, would there be a mechanic in place to allow other regions 
or a Duke or imperial army or something similar that you find acceptable 
to march in and set him straight?  Ooo! Ooo!  Or better yet let each 
region lord have a scaled down version of diplomatic relations...he can 
be peaceful with his neighbor or hostile, and whenever his knights meet 
with a hostile region's knights in a respective home turf they have 
little skirmishes.  Maybe not full scale battles, but something that 
might leave a soldier or three injured or maybe dead.  This way if a 
nation wishes to go to war they would have to organize or "unite" their 
local lord's first.

I may have let my imagination get away there, but this would definitely 
bring action to Realms that are surrounded by allies...which we all know 
can be very boring.