To get Republics, Theocracy/Papacy and even admin realms/China meritocracy government working properly, we badly need a new form of gameplay designed around office-holdings. No more "governorships are temporary landed holders", that isn't enough.
We need landless gameplay not just as adventurers, but as office-holders. Meaning people who get official positions in the management of a realm, be it being appointed a general of an army ( meaning you are given command over certain amount of troops in a given area/at different ranks), the realm's priests ( meaning you actually manage all the priests and religious affairs in a realm), the treasurer ( you're actually in charge of finance and overseeing of tax collections), spycraft ( you actually manage a spy network and recruit spies and appoint them at different parts of the realm), or you're the head diplomat or head the the judiciary ( managing legal cases, working with diplomatic officials)
We need some sort of landless-internal hierarchy of offices, to represent people who can be appointed to help run a government in many different ways. You have to fight with other people in the government if you want more funds for the army, more funds for churches/temples, or the different parts of governing a realm.
CK3 once had every form of gameplay be tied to landed-holdings, but we've already moved on from this as we are now able to play nomads/landless adventurers and landless admin nobles. Not everything needs to be about governing a piece of land anymore, or at least personally governing over an area. We should be able to play as meaningful courtiers and officials.
If we are to get meaningful Chinese government gameplay, playing as an bureaucrat official is one of the major part of the Chinese administration.
We need landless gameplay not just as adventurers, but as office-holders. Meaning people who get official positions in the management of a realm, be it being appointed a general of an army ( meaning you are given command over certain amount of troops in a given area/at different ranks), the realm's priests ( meaning you actually manage all the priests and religious affairs in a realm), the treasurer ( you're actually in charge of finance and overseeing of tax collections), spycraft ( you actually manage a spy network and recruit spies and appoint them at different parts of the realm), or you're the head diplomat or head the the judiciary ( managing legal cases, working with diplomatic officials)
We need some sort of landless-internal hierarchy of offices, to represent people who can be appointed to help run a government in many different ways. You have to fight with other people in the government if you want more funds for the army, more funds for churches/temples, or the different parts of governing a realm.
CK3 once had every form of gameplay be tied to landed-holdings, but we've already moved on from this as we are now able to play nomads/landless adventurers and landless admin nobles. Not everything needs to be about governing a piece of land anymore, or at least personally governing over an area. We should be able to play as meaningful courtiers and officials.
If we are to get meaningful Chinese government gameplay, playing as an bureaucrat official is one of the major part of the Chinese administration.
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