by sigmazero13
While variants are obviously a matter of taste, I think both those variant ideas would decrease diplomacy in the games, and I think they are already pretty infrequently used as it is.Sure, a lone unit could go in and try it. But if you had to send in 6 units to recruit 5, it wouldn't be worth it - if you succeed, you'd have to eliminate 3 units because you'd be over the stacking limit right off the bat. It would make diplomacy attempts against larger groups of neutrals less likely in general.
I haven't found the existing rules to be that problematic in practice, to be honest. I'm not sure it's something that needs fixing.