loyalty

Here you can see that I settled New Orleans off all on it's lonesome, in a way which could well be impossible to keep in Rise and Fall due to the new loyalty mechanic. Though to be fair, when I initially did it, only the city states were close. As you can see I am Suzerain of Brussels...

I welcome the idea to introduce the loyalty mechanism in R&F. What I wondered - because I haven't heard anything about it - is if actions like changing a government should induce a temporary decline in loyalty across the empire? This would reflect the turmoil associated with a revolution. After...