Proposal
Create several new GCR's called spoilers. Spoilers would act like feeders based on their relation with the warzones. This would both add feeders in an interesting way, and give more importance to the warzones.
Implementation
There are several ways this could be implemented, and I invite discussion of different options. However, this is what I'm currently imagining:
Create five spoilers. The two spoilers with the most control of the warzones act exactly like feeders.
Control of the warzones is quantified with the distribution of embassies spoilers have with the warzones. Each warzone represents 1/6 (or 16.6%) of total warzone control. And control of one warzone is shared equally among the spoilers that have embassies with it. Therefore, a spoiler that has an exclusive embassy with one warzone, and shares two warzones with one other spoiler, has 1/3 control of the warzones.
In case of a tie, the spoiler that most recently had more control is preferred.
Expected Outcome
Spoilers would ultimately find themselves in competition for warzone control. This control could manifest either as diplomacy or military force.
With two feeder slots, there is an option for limited cooperation, but most spoilers would have an interest in disrupting any stable system that forms. Warzones would prefer to diversify, with multiple spoiler embassies. However, spoilers would favor exclusivity. With so many competing interests, it would be extremely difficult for things to stabilize.
Spoilers?
When considering what to call these regions, I considered several names I thought would work well with what they do:
- Belligerent - As in, a participant in a war.
- Marauder - Pirates or raiders. It would be natural for one of these regions to take on a pirate-based theme.
- Rover - Archaic term for pirate. Synonym for wanderer.
I settled on "Spoiler", because in my opinion it sounds better than the above names, and it has multiple meanings which apply to these regions:
- They win spoils from the warzones.
- They tend to spoil (go bad, get more aggressive) when they've lost new nation spawns.
- It is a reference to vote-splitting, which is analogous to what happens when one warzone has embassies with multiple spoilers.
