Mechanic change ideas

Strider

Cli granted only if attacking within 90%.

-narrows margin of victories
-creates viable back and forth fighting exemplifying strategy
-helps with castle passing as youd have to stay within a certain KS range of everyone on team

Variable CLI cooldown
-under 70%, 12 hours
-For every 1% above 70% decrease cli cooldown incrementally

Attack randomizer
-On failed attacks have a small chance that marching army finds an abandoned castle with empty land

Retals never expire
-Create an environment that promotes being selective with attacks
-maximum of X total retals that can be saved at a time. Oldest retal drops off after retal limit hit, but otherwise they are always active.

Castle loss-
-Defending kingdoms dont lose castles or land, attacking kingdom gains castle/land based on defending kingdom ratios.
-% of buildings that wpuld be lost when getting attacked are ravaged by battle and destroyed. Gives a slight advantage to attacker but doesnt put defending kingdom in a complete disadvantage. This could also help if widening the cli range past 90% due to lack of targets.

Fog of War-
-You can only see real province #,land/ks values of those in your province. Takes away castle passing due to possibility of attacking wrong kingdom.
-Apply randomizer to land/castle/KS within a certain tolerance for khof & province to ensure people cant pass with 100% efficiency
-Use filtering option for possible targets in khof with the attack/magic option on screen

Battle losses
-create option of less troops dying and needing to recover. Maybe tie it to a new building, similar to MC but not instant.

Lord Thane

For me it's -1 on the cli and punching down ideas. I think we did a lot to help smaller kingdoms fight back, extensively even, and it's already a pretty small field finding someone within 30% up or down range to target and still be safely within CLI. The BF penalty was tweaked to be more meaningful (previously both kingdoms had their #'s reduced depending on the gap, which did not affect outcomes of battles, but served to reduce losses, but this was easily overcome by over sending which is why the BF penalty never "felt" like it did anything, because it practically didn't in real world battles - the tweaked method simply reduces attackers attack by the KS difference, reducing defenders damages and making victory conditions more difficult to achieve).

Retals expiry and castle loss ideas are super interesting, but I don't know if it would ever make it to the main game. I think they're kind of too 'out there's for mass support. We talked about the no castle/land loss in chat and it does sound like a fun stress free game, maybe if we had a casual server running it would work? I wouldn't mind a stress free server some day, just put things on easy mode for fun. But not in the standard game mode I don't think. Well, maybe it could, depends on how the players are feeling about the classic thardferr anxiety 😵‍💫

I'm not sure about fow, maybe I need to try rereading it tomorrow. But for the battle losses, there's been a lot of chat about reconfiguring QR, something like so it sets your defensive troops to 50% participation. If there's mass support for that I could definitely get behind it - but it does need to be fleshed out as an idea more, like how is it going to be affected by MC and paladins, are humans running 1:1 MC going to only lose up to 37.5% per defense as a max?