Quote Originally Posted by Blodrast
sure, that's pretty early. But it really depends what faction you're playing; you can afford to ignore loyalty related stuff for a long time if you have a lot of coastal provinces, but no inland ones; but if you own lands in Central Europe, well, distance from your king _will_ be a problem, and so will loyalty.
I once built a Danish Naval Empire out of all the Coastal+Trading provinces on the map, leaving the other coastal provinces for other factions to trade with me. It lead to a lot of borders, but I had more than enough money to deal with threats.