[Discuss] Limiting recruitment to centres from the region/duchy (not recruiting within the duchy)

[Timothy Collett]

psymann wrote:
> No, it wouldn't require more knights.  Say you normally had three 
> knights, one on production and two on authority.  Now, you have to 
> include military-drafting in there as well.  All you do is switch one of 
> the authority estates to military for a short period of time.  During 
> this time, region stats may suffer, but such is the price of drafting. 
> You can always liaise with a bureaucrat to help during the drafting 
> period.  Then the estate is set back to authority, and everything gets 
> back to normal.

You don't seem to have grasped the fact that "Not doing X will hurt the 
region" basically means, for most people, "We must do X".  Thus, it 
*would* require more knights.

Saying, "It wouldn't require more knights, as long as you're willing to 
put up with lower stats" is silly, as that's true *right now*.  You 
don't *need* full estate support, it's just that without it your stats drop.

> I don't think I'm increasing drudge work.

Having to switch his estate back and forth for no other reason than to 
make sure that the realm can get enough recruits and still line his 
lord's pockets (because he won't spring for another knight dedicated to 
drafting) *is* drudge work.

What you have to understand is that there are basically 2 types of 
activities you can add for The Simple Knight:

1) Activities that have no benefit to the realm, which will basically be 
ignored, or even forbidden
2) Activities that have a benefit to the realm, which will become 
necessary, and ordered, and thus not more power to the Simple Knight, 
but just more stuff for him to do because he's told to.

If you want to have more stuff to do, frankly, the only thing I can see 
that can be fun, but not be ordered or taken out your hands by your 
superiors is RP.

Timothy Collett
Anaris Family

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