Old Fashioned Thinking in a New Illy

HonoredMule wrote: the only size/output limiter that can't be overcome: research.

Plan B, spend the accumulated 1M RP and tell them to introduce a new "research lab" structure soon™.

Thatkindaorc wrote:  serious players interested in growing to the maximum you can will one day be forced to resort to war and forcibly taking cities to do so.

 Possible, but after almost six months my "crappy" initial town still produces a surplus of food with five food spots.  Admittedly I can now see the end in this town, but there are still weeks of tuning spells and sov before I'd really need more food than I produce.  

Inevitably, as the game becomes more popular and we get more players, tensions will rise for one unavoidable reason: There are a limited number of "good" spots, barring exodus/teleport shenanigans. 

Eventually they'll all be gone, and if you want a square with good sov nearby - and eventually -any- 7 food square - you'll have to capture it from the player already sitting on it.  In a year or two, that will be the progression of Illyriad.  You'll build up your population and military on crappy 4 and 5 food squares until you're big enough to take one of the low-hanging 7-food squares from somebody, and having all your cities on 7-food squares will show you're incredibly powerful and an established player.

Sure there will be people content to sit on "crappy" squares without enough food to fully grow, but serious players interested in growing to the maximum you can will one day be forced to resort to war and forcibly taking cities to do so.

Rill wrote: Honestly, I've always hated those cartoons, even as a kid.  Didn't see what was funny about them, just made me feel sad.  Obviously this is something lacking in my character since other people see the humor.  I felt sorrier for Wile E Coyote than I did Roadrunner, though.  Seems like everyone was on Roadrunner's side.