I'm not trying to salt, but there were people voting for the diplo hero that did so specifically because they can negate crit fails, and guess what happened with our first action with the Maradysh?
Ok, the "gift" of legitimacy was more of a joke. We aren't "giving" them anything physical, or even metaphorical here. Unless their hatred of gifts goes really deep.
...to be fair, I did think a Diplo Hero was rather useless at the time. Really regretting that now.
Alright, how?! How is that good?!
In short, Legitimacy is the acknowledgement of the people towards their leadership. An overlevelled Legitimacy means that the people of Arthwyd are very much trusting the leaders of Arthwyd, and by consequences, their trust to "us" as the voters to lead them to a brighter future. It probably has a connection to the public order, faction moods, events, and a bunch of other background rolls that Oshha only knows about. But all I can see is that a high Legitimacy is certainly good and certainly not that easy to gain.
Oh come on. Even if we got a middling to high Legitimacy, the rot still has a possibility to sets in! That's pretty much what the background rolls were for!
This is something that was learned by the veterans of PoC:
I've come to accept that Monarchy is now our new government type, although I do still think it is inferior yes
Sounds very likely.
My god man, all that would happen is we lose ONE Legitimacy, going from 4/3 to 3/3 AKA still maximum Legitimacy. It won't cause any kind of trouble. Stop poisoning the well.
Blind faith in the current leadership can result in people not questioning things when they go wrong or making up excuses to justify failures or abuses of power.
My point is that we don't need to spend it now. There will be a situation in which we need legitimacy, but we may not have it enough.
Legitimacy has uses beyond just being a buffer, as said by both myself and the QM.
