Over-Crowding

I hear the following things:

1. There are plenty of spots.
2. You can still settle near your own alliance.
3. Perma sitting is a big cause of the problem.
4. Terraforming would solve the problem.
5. The solution is just to spread your cities all over the map.
6. The 10 field rule prevents people from moving in to your area.

Let me address each of these:

1. If you feel that there are plenty of spots available, then either you are playing a different game than everyone else, or something. But just the fact that the other answers exist shows that most people disagree with you.

2. Only being able to exodus your city near your alliance mates, and even then only if there are no non-alliance players within 10 fields, basically means that you are only allowed to exodus if you over-crowd your own alliance mates. That is NOT a solution to the problem. Especially in light of everyone being force to spread out all over the map due to the present overcrowding.

3. Perma sitting IS a BIG problem, as are people with more than 2 accounts, but that is not the point of this thread.

4. Terraforming won’t open up spaces that you are allowed to exodus your city to. The 10 field range still prevents you from exodusing to those spots. Therefore all the terraforming in the world won’t solve this problem.

5. Having to spread your cities all over the map in order to find spots is not proof that there is no problem. Quite the opposite, it is proof that there is a real BIG problem. It is also effectively signing your own death warrant. When your city is attacked, and your other “supporting” cities are 4 days travel time away, you have no support from your own “supporting” cities. Your city will be either captured or razed long before your own support arrives. In that case you aren’t playing 1 account that has 10 cities, you are playing 10 accounts that each have a single city, and share a common login. And in war time you will be eaten alive. Yet you don’t have to look very far on the map to see that most people are indeed already in this predicament due to the severe overcrowding.

6. If you need a 10 field rule to prevent people from moving too close to you, then the best advice that I can give you is to either figure out what the army is there for, or join an alliance that can fight your battles for you. The game rule will not stop people from moving too close to you, it only makes exodus useless. They can still settle there using settlers. So forget asking the game to save you with a 10 field rule, and build an army.

So we still need to solve the problem of severe overcrowding. And we need to do it in a way that is fast and easy for the development team to do, or it won’t get done. I still see the solutions that I gave in the first post as the best way of doing that.