De Jour Drift Suggestion

[Yani]

I was wondering if it would be better/more historical to change the way de jour drift works.

My suggestion is to only allow de jour drift to occur if the duchy/kingdom is adjacent to the kingdom/empire it's drifting into, or else adjacent to another duchy/kingdom that's drifting in the same way.

It should also be allowed to occur within x number of sea zones so that drifting can still happen in the Mediterranean, North Sea, etc.

This wouldn't exactly prevent blogging but it would at least stop it from being exacerbated due to normalising certain blobs over time.

It doesn't seem very historical to have two halves of a landlocked kingdom being separated by thousands of miles of other kingdoms, but this always seems to happen, especially in the early starts.

Let me know what you think.

 

[Yani]

*blobbing

damn autocorrect

 

[Snow Crystal]

There is a game rule that mostly encompasses this already. I always use it, exactly because I hate Kingdoms with really weird DeJure borders.

 

[WomboCombo]

I was wondering if it would be better/more historical to change the way de jour drift works.

My suggestion is to only allow de jour drift to occur if the duchy/kingdom is adjacent to the kingdom/empire it's drifting into, or else adjacent to another duchy/kingdom that's drifting in the same way.

It should also be allowed to occur within x number of sea zones so that drifting can still happen in the Mediterranean, North Sea, etc.

This wouldn't exactly prevent blogging but it would at least stop it from being exacerbated due to normalising certain blobs over time.

It doesn't seem very historical to have two halves of a landlocked kingdom being separated by thousands of miles of other kingdoms, but this always seems to happen, especially in the early starts.

Let me know what you think.

Restricted De Jure Drift in the Game Rules does this

 

[Vokasak]

I was wondering if it would be better/more historical to change the way de jour drift works.

My suggestion is to only allow de jour drift to occur if the duchy/kingdom is adjacent to the kingdom/empire it's drifting into, or else adjacent to another duchy/kingdom that's drifting in the same way.

It should also be allowed to occur within x number of sea zones so that drifting can still happen in the Mediterranean, North Sea, etc.

This wouldn't exactly prevent blogging but it would at least stop it from being exacerbated due to normalising certain blobs over time.

It doesn't seem very historical to have two halves of a landlocked kingdom being separated by thousands of miles of other kingdoms, but this always seems to happen, especially in the early starts.

Let me know what you think.

This is literally an already-implemented.

 

[faiuwle]

Actually, that game rule does not work, in one game when I had it on there was a kingdom that was drifting into my empire that wasn't next to any of my de jure (not de jour or du jour, that's something completely different) land. I think it works for duchies but not kingdoms.

 

[BaronIronmaggot]

I think that this rule also considers any title which is a seazone or two away as a neighbour .

 

[faiuwle]

This was Hungary. No coastline in the de jure territory.

 

[DPS]

I think that this rule also considers any title which is a seazone or two away as a neighbour .

I don't think so. In my current game, playing as the King of Scotland, I own the Duchy of Iceland, but it's not drifting into de jure Scotland.

 

[faiuwle]

Iceland is definitely a lot more than one sea zone away from Scotland.

 

[Thossi]

It doesn't seem very historical to have two halves of a landlocked kingdom being separated by thousands of miles of other kingdoms, but this always seems to happen, especially in the early starts.

That can still happen, I think, even when using the option rule in place (does it maybe need a DLC to be available?) or the suggestion you're offering. Only the other way around; I saw it happen, when Austrasia inherited and/or conquered it's way right through the middle of France, getting that de jure-drift into Austrasia, leaving poor France cleft in twain like the skulls of my enemies. (Oh, I don't remember if the drift is completed, but it's at least underway)

 

[DPS]

Iceland is definitely a lot more than one sea zone away from Scotland.

It's 2 or 3, depending on how it's counted. I'm interested to see if it starts to drift once Orkney drifts into de jure Scotland.