Well, I have found Barony style play to be somewhat more independent feeling from Kingdom than Shire play. I did find that on moving to a Shire that the near complete lack of courts being held had impacted the style of play to a great degree, yet it also sorta gave a higher degree of dependence on Kingdom for the full SCA experience. I know people who pretty much skip shire level play all together and just play at principality and Kingdom.
The loyalty thing is a tough one to answer, when I left there was still a fair bit of "loyalty", as far as I could tell, to Kingdom though what has helped is that the royalty were making more frequent trips into the region (once, and occasionally, twice a year but to us that is frequent). Region pride was, and I imagine still is, quite strong though but this would likely never occur without it's major-ish events and it's army to stand behind... as the crown principality grows with the changes of being able to have a name and heraldry, I suspect it will grow and once it becomes a full principality, I could only guess that it could grow stronger (just guessing from the current/past trends).
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Date: 2010-06-10 07:18 am (UTC)The loyalty thing is a tough one to answer, when I left there was still a fair bit of "loyalty", as far as I could tell, to Kingdom though what has helped is that the royalty were making more frequent trips into the region (once, and occasionally, twice a year but to us that is frequent). Region pride was, and I imagine still is, quite strong though but this would likely never occur without it's major-ish events and it's army to stand behind... as the crown principality grows with the changes of being able to have a name and heraldry, I suspect it will grow and once it becomes a full principality, I could only guess that it could grow stronger (just guessing from the current/past trends).