Okay, none of these ideas are crazy enough yet.
Intended goal is to raise activity in the feeders, aye? Intended method of achieving this is making it difficult, but not impossible, to hold a feeder for a long period of time, AND to make the feeders desirable targets for people who want to hold them?
Now for a little dark, disturbing note from the UCR world. To us, the feeders are nothing but a resource to be mined. It's harsh but it's true. Francoist thought is not really wrong on that front.. I don't think it's as malicious or conscious as Franco believed, but we put up with your governments because you've got a lot of nations, and if you decided to rise up and be scary, you probably could... except that we've got founders and you don't.
Right. So. Feeder = Stripmine. Imagine that little cartoon device where starving people view their comrades in the raft as amusing, talking food. Feeders, especially those with any sort of Francoist ideology *cough* the Pacific *cough* will try to say that this is an unfair view. I say its time the game embraced it.
My idea is this. We put the Feeders on warzone rules. No crazy additions, no crazy limited banlists, just the pure warzone rules. Then, and this is the good part folks, then we utilize a mechanic like the Embassy/Annexation mechanic to establish a specific link between the feeder region and ONE UCR. Just one. This is important, because this link is, for lack of a better word at the moment, the "shuttle."
What does it do? Every nation that would have spawned in the feeder, now spawns in the UCR instead. Or if its easier on the game, every nation spawned in the feeder is automatically transferred on creation to the UCR.
An example. Lets say Europeia conquers the Pacific. You put in the request, and three or four days later (not sure how long it takes), assuming Europeia is able to hold the Pacific for that long, the Pacific is now linked to Europeia, and until somebody changes that, every nation that would spawn in the Pacific is spawned in Europeia instead.
If you're a recipient point for new nations like that, the feeder rules on recruitment apply. Europeia would now be open to RMB recruitment, and its residents would be open to one telegram each from other regions. But we all know that most of the nations don't move, and die four weeks later.
You want a war over the feeders? Now you've got one. You like your regional government as it is, Feeder governments? Don't establish the link. New nations spawn in your feeder... just have to make sure nobody coups you and takes your resources away, and makes you recruit like any other UCR.
Is it extreme? Absolutely. That's why I like it.
