we could go insane and make so many free cities that most land is administrated by cities anyway and distribute land is no longer valid. :lol

but that is both A) near impossible, and B) dealing with someone threatening to stab you by shooting yourself.
 
When did your claim that "literally everyone" supports distribute land become my burden?
Cause I sure as hell don't have to prove it myself. I mean, unless you can pull evidence that says the rural poor and half exiles are against DL, then as far as we know there is still no group against DL.

Which, you know, was the important part.
 
[X] [Merc] Yes
[X] [Agenda] Sea Control
[X] [Secondary] Distribute Land
[X] [Secondary] Distribute Land x2
[X] [Secondary] Hunt Troublemakers
[X] [Secondary] Enforce Justice
[X] [Secondary] Proclaim Glory
[X] [Secondary] Found Free City - Sacred Forest
[X] [Secondary] Found Free City Blackmouth
[X] [Secondary] Art Patronage
[X] [Guild Sec] More Warships
 
That looks nice on paper, but I fear the reality is that power concentrates. If we empower the patricians, they'll just use that power to empower themselves even more. We're starting a process here that will make them absolutely entrenched.

Plus, they shouldn't get away with threatening civil war over it. That goes against both Joyous Symphony and especially Greater Justice something fierce.

Does one blame the poorly-trained dog, or the owner?

If they're entrenched, subvert them.
 
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[X] [Merc] Yes
[X] [Agenda] Sea Control
[X] [Secondary] Distribute Land
[X] [Secondary] Distribute Land x2
[X] [Secondary] Hunt Troublemakers
[X] [Secondary] Enforce Justice
[X] [Secondary] Proclaim Glory
[X] [Secondary] Found Free City - Sacred Forest
[X] [Secondary] Found Free City Blackmouth
[X] [Secondary] Art Patronage
[X] [Guild Sec] More Warships

In veekie we trust.
 
[X] [Merc] Yes
[X] [King's Agenda] Sea Control
[X] [Secondary] Distribute Land
[X] [Secondary] Distribute Land x2
[X] [Secondary] Hunt Troublemakers
[X] [Secondary] Enforce Justice
[X] [Secondary] Proclaim Glory
[X] [Secondary] Found Free City - Sacred Forest
[X] [Secondary] Found Free City Blackmouth
[X] [Secondary] Art Patronage
[X] [Guild Secondary] More Warships
 
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Does one blame the poorly-trained dog, or the owner?
And what do you do with a dog that has gone bad and violent? You put it down.

If they're entrenched, subvert them.
Ideally, yes, but easier said then done. Better to oppose them now before they can get entrenched. Now, when they would still be rebels against the king and where this fact can draw the realm to our side.
 
[X] [Merc] Yes
[X] [Agenda] Sea Control
[X] [Secondary] Distribute Land
[X] [Secondary] Distribute Land x2
[X] [Secondary] Hunt Troublemakers
[X] [Secondary] Enforce Justice
[X] [Secondary] Proclaim Glory
[X] [Secondary] Found Free City - Sacred Forest
[X] [Secondary] Found Free City Blackmouth
[X] [Secondary] Art Patronage
[X] [Guild Sec] More Warships

[X] [Merc] Yes
[X] [Agenda] Sea Control
[X] [Secondary] Distribute Land
[X] [Secondary] Distribute Land x2
[X] [Secondary] Hunt Troublemakers
[X] [Secondary] Enforce Justice
[X] [Secondary] Proclaim Glory
[X] [Secondary] Found Free City - Sacred Forest
[X] [Secondary] Found Free City Blackmouth
[X] [Secondary] Art Patronage
[X] [Guild Sec] More Warships

In veekie we trust.

[X] [Merc] Yes
[X] [Agenda] Sea Control
[X] [Secondary] Distribute Land
[X] [Secondary] Distribute Land x2
[X] [Secondary] Hunt Troublemakers
[X] [Secondary] Enforce Justice
[X] [Secondary] Proclaim Glory
[X] [Secondary] Found Free City - Sacred Forest
[X] [Secondary] Found Free City Blackmouth
[X] [Secondary] Art Patronage
[X] [Guild Sec] More Warships

If you would be so kind, could you please vote with the [King's Agenda] and [Guild Secondary] tags so the tally doesn't get brought to tears?

I'm kidding. The tally doesn't have feelings; it won't care if you vote in a completely different way. So let me be more accurate - could you please vote with the [King's Agenda] and [Guild Secondary] tags so I don't get brought to tears?
 
AN has stated that every faction is for or not against DL.
Every faction =\= "literally everyone"

Cause I sure as hell don't have to prove it myself.
If you're going to make a claim, I think it's only fair you be called to back it up. We haven't been given explicit information about the half-exiles' or rural poor's opinion on DL, so it seems weird for you to so boldly declare that they're fine with it. A priori I would expect them not to want to give additional rights to people who have a history of using and abusing them.
 
We're going to need to invent the concept of attainder, fast.

That way if Patricians get caught being corrupt their hereditary lands are confiscated anyway.

We also have a real problem now in that it's basically impossible to have a peaceful change of government now. As suppressing the ruling faction is impossible, they'll just gain and gain and gain power until it takes a civil war to get rid of them.

We other big problem we have is that the Patricians can force us to be a very low Centralisation state, which makes it even harder to control them. They can just spam distribute lands eternally to flat line our Centralisation, meaning that our kings won't even know what's going on. Combined with their ability to build Governor's Palaces and shift the Centralisation range down, we're screwed, as they can transition us to being a negative Centralisation state pretty trivially.

As a result, with a choice between a civil war now and one when the Patricians are even more entrenched. I choose now.
 
It seems that we're close to getting formalised martial arts with this new guy... 'Combat poetics', huh?
 
We're going to need to invent the concept of attainder, fast.

That way if Patricians get caught being corrupt their hereditary lands are confiscated anyway.

We also have a real problem now in that it's basically impossible to have a peaceful change of government now. As suppressing the ruling faction is impossible, they'll just gain and gain and gain power until it takes a civil war to get rid of them.

We other big problem we have is that the Patricians can force us to be a very low Centralisation state, which makes it even harder to control them. They can just spam distribute lands eternally to flat line our Centralisation, meaning that our kings won't even know what's going on. Combined with their ability to build Governor's Palaces and shift the Centralisation range down, we're screwed, as they can transition us to being a negative Centralisation state pretty trivially.

As a result, with a choice between a civil war now and one when the Patricians are even more entrenched. I choose now.

Point... I think @Academia Nut will finally get that social colapse he has been after for so long.

It had to happen eventually I guess.
 
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