> If there are few/no npc regents in a game, are they any
>suggestions as to
>how to promote court costs, above 1 GB... ?

Ambassadors. In our campaing, the court cost represents the number of
domains in which we have ambassadors. An ambassador gives news of what's
going on in the domain in which he is posted. The bigger the court, the
bigger the ambassies network.

Optionnally, you could decree that doing diplomacy with a country that has
no ambassador costs double the normal cost.

Robin

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