So What's the Status of the Domain System?

[smreyno]

Presently it feels like House elevation and House power in general is mostly a product of OOC/population-based resource grinding. Maybe this is fine and in that case ignore me! That's certainly a way to do things! But it was my understanding an actual domain system would work somewhat differently, with more mechanics built in for passive maintenance and clearer paths to increase certain aspects of a domain's power. Want to get a bead on this given all the House elevation going on atm (yes, the Pravus drama is the impetus of this, but it seems like this is a growing way to level up and I want to drop this note because idk /I/ care about this and always liked the idea of more concrete power-advancement avenues that weren't totally diffuse/grinding-oriented). I appreciate all y'all do, etc.

ETA: And if things that might logically prompt civil war are being allowed due to resource accumulation, it would be nice to have a system in place to account for such conflict! To get everyone on the same page ICly and OOCly. It seems they aren't at present. NGL the game's approach to PvP has always felt more diffuse than is healthy to my liking, but that didn't matter as long as pretty much all power stayed in the diffuse realm. It's plainly being treated as a more concrete thing now.