Only empires can de jure drift.

[Delta5ff]

After playing a few centuries as a pretty large empire all the duchies ended up swapping around while I wasn't watching and drifted into really bad de jure boarder gore.

Would it be possible to make it so that only empire tier titles can drift, for example the kingdom of England will always hold the de jure lands it starts with and never change its shape but after been a vassal of the HRE for long enough it is considered part of their lands and Britannia no longer has and de jure claim to its lands?

 

[Tryvenyal]

It would but why? Or, I respect your opinion but for me game would be unplayable without de- jure drift.

Isn't there gamerules that covers this? Maybe this suggestion is only to add an option to existing gamerule? isnt there the option to "only neighboring to current dejure" today? Othervice that might be what you want?

 

[RedBaronFlyer]

It would but why? Or, I respect your opinion but for me game would be unplayable without de- jure drift.

Isn't there gamerules that covers this? Maybe this suggestion is only to add an option to existing gamerule? isnt there the option to "only neighboring to current dejure" today? Othervice that might be what you want?

Yeah, this is covered by the "Only bordering de-jure drift" rule, which means that a duchy in the middle of Poland will never dejure drift into France unless the dejure kingdom of France has a direct border with said duchy.

 

[Fire6all]

The de jure drift is one of the important mechanisms of the game. If you don't like it, don't mess with it, just disable hit in the games rules, as said higher

 

[Delta5ff]

I usually play with it disabled but I'm thinking back to a game I had a few years ago. I had an empire that had all of France, Italy and the HRE's land. When I checked The De Jure kingdoms some of the kingdoms had been reduced to just a few duchies but they were all spread miles apart across the map. the boarder gore was that bad some of the kingdoms were un recognisable.

I'm not asking for it to be default but an option now that they are a thing. The way I see it working is the kingdom can shift to been a part of the empire of Britannia but the duchy could never shift to been a part of the kingdom of England. also if Britannia wanted to own France they would need to own 100% of it before it began to shift.

I'd like this as an option for those who want it only to allow shifting but in a way that won't create horrendous boarder gore.