Looting Suggestion II

[Wizzington]

"look captain! Thats seems to be a rich estate! Can we search it for riches?"

"No men, thats impossible....We first gotta occupy the fort 50 miles from here, and THEN we might be able to loot it. I know, I know, but thats the way it is."

So I hope it changes too

"Look, captain! That seems to be a rich estate! Can we search it for riches?"

"No men, that's impossible, because we control a city 100 miles away, and therefore are in supply. We have to go deeper into enemy territory, where the estates refill their treasuries every 6 months."

(The old system didn't make a terrible amount of sense either.)

 

[Wizzington]

I'd like to see looting somehow damage the autonomy slider. The peasants don't feel protected by their liege, so they are more autonomous and pay fewer taxes and manpower to their liege. Something to represent their suffering.

This was tried in the first iteration of autonomy, but it created a death spiral for any country that lost a war and so was axed.

 

[Wizzington]

you stole and adapted my joke! Preposterous!


Sidenote: provinces harvested all year long, filled granaries and barns all year long. So a refill of all riches in 6 months isn't unheard of.

Maybe the looting interval should have been 2 years or so, instead of 6 months.

It still feels like the current change is to prevent micromanaging fetishists like me to loot behind enemy lines

But I DO acknowledge most players don't like it, and that some sort of change was needed.

Can I do a suggestion Wiz? KEEP the old system, but enable looting ONLY for provinces that are NEXT to an occupied province, or occupied provinces itself (they are being loted automatically) It would be good fix, and actually historically accurate.

And for hordes, keep the old system entirely, but change the looting interval to 2 years or more

I think that would be good compromise. If you are interested in negotiations

Old system is not coming back. We might make a new system.

What if looting was an active decision? Occupied province, new button on the building screen to loot the countryside. Destroys a building(s) and gives some fraction of the cost of the building. Preferrably does NOT COST MP. NO MANA.

Make looting cost admin points you say? OK.