Should claim fabrication be more reliable? I get that we don't want everyone having claims on everything surrounding them, a la EU4, but the randomness involved in "do I get my claim on day 1 or year 100?" can be incredibly annoying if you're in the latter boat. Obviously, there are other ways to get claims, but especially in smaller nations and nearer the beginning of the game the ability to get useful claims is very swingy.
Perhaps a system could work like EU4, taking a long time and giving negative penalties of some sort if you're discovered, with more likelihood of being discovered and longer fabrication times for low diplomacy chancellors. In this scenario, it might be better to give a weak claim rather than a strong one, so that claims are not so powerful, but you're encouraged more to find 'claims' on weak looking neighbours, and you're not stuck sitting on your hands while waiting for a diplo 8 character to fabricate a claim (or a diplo 18 one just failing for years on end because of the RNG)
Obviously, this is less of an issue if there's more to do during peace time, which is the preferable option. It's not so bad sitting at peace for years if you've got something to do.
Perhaps a system could work like EU4, taking a long time and giving negative penalties of some sort if you're discovered, with more likelihood of being discovered and longer fabrication times for low diplomacy chancellors. In this scenario, it might be better to give a weak claim rather than a strong one, so that claims are not so powerful, but you're encouraged more to find 'claims' on weak looking neighbours, and you're not stuck sitting on your hands while waiting for a diplo 8 character to fabricate a claim (or a diplo 18 one just failing for years on end because of the RNG)
Obviously, this is less of an issue if there's more to do during peace time, which is the preferable option. It's not so bad sitting at peace for years if you've got something to do.
