Quote Originally Posted by aw89
First of all, nice pun there Yoyoma

Back to topic, does having the king on the edge of your empire create negative effects, like "area of affect" or someting?
Yes, the loalty effeckt the king gives diminishes with distance (aka the number of provinces you'll need to pass through to get to that province, starting from the kings province), but as long the king is in a costal province with a port it usually doesn't matter.

But this is the reason why some provinces in the middle of HRE (especially Switzerland) have a loyalty problem despite that all of them doesn't got an extra rebellious status from the gamefiles. Only a problem when your empire is big though.