New feature suggestion "Loyalists"

[Djieh]

I fail to see what the point of that would be. Any vassal not in a faction is by default a loyalist - because he sends troops to the liege under the general mechanics if the liege goes to war with one or more factions.

By definition, this is obviously correct. But I still think it would make sense for "active" loyalists to receive a positive relationship modifier if they engaged rebels with their own levies. Wouldn't have to be guaranteed, though. Maybe the king just tells them "I didn't ask you to help me." afterwards ...

 

[tormos]

I agree that a loyalist faction would be a fantastic addition, especially if it serves as a deterrent to rebel factions. Usurpation factions, prince A is better than King factions, secession and coup d'etats would be less likely to happen if the king's supporters controlled 70% of the power. It would also give a winning usurper a list of you to replace/banish/execute then just automatically assume that every lord who was neutral was against the rebels.

This is already in the game... the "percentage of liege's power" mechanic makes potential rebel factions compare their armies to the armies of the state if they rebel. So lords are already in a "loyalist" faction by default

 

[Divi]

This is already in the game... the "percentage of liege's power" mechanic makes potential rebel factions compare their armies to the armies of the state if they rebel. So lords are already in a "loyalist" faction by default

Except lords can't act up on it to join a civil war directly with a few exceptions. It also causes the issue that you end up with lords who were leading a palace coup leading yet another for some stupid reason (usually traits) when they should probably be happy unless their new liege doesn't reward them.