Over-Crowding

Emergent sandbox gameplay wins again!

The "10-radius rule" is a social solution, which might be widely adopted, whether or not 10 squares are actually required. If not required, then it simply creates advantage by inconveniencing others.

If some think that it is unfair to claim 10 squares, then it's time for negotiation, or other means. Some might come here and argue that the 10 square rule isn't worth honouring, in the hope that the majority will eventually disagree with it.

To me it seems like there is comparatively tons of space and nice spots. There were 2,000 more players once upon a time xD Of the 2-3 years I have played, there are possibly more than average nice free areas right now. It does take some looking around. And new players sometimes despair a little too quickly since they start in the super crowded newbie-land

As for the above suggestions ... you can sov most mountains... and you can terraform at least once allowing you to make one super good city. Since new players sometimes quit and get auto-deleted you can even usually find empty terrafromed spots here and there if you look long enough.

It is often true you can't simultaneously find a bunch of amazing spots and have all your towns be in one small area. You have to pick and choose at least some in this game, you are not supposed to be able to have everthing.


It could be fun to add a different method of terraforming. perhaps something super hard that takes a lot of time and effort. Or maybe a discovery which is hard to get and you can only use on 1 additional town.   That way people could very slowly over time improve some of their food-5 spots.


as for sovving swamps... it would be nice for me as well xD but.. it doesn't really make too much sense if you think about it. One person I spoke to suggested that only orcs be able to eat the things in swamps xD

And away we go.....it was a thought sometime long long long ago.. find myself no long really interested in pursuing a dead end?...BUT being the nice person that I am, always looking for something I might have missed.. 

People have been complaining about the map being too crowded and the 10-square requirement since I was a newb 3 years ago.  Honestly the additions of water sovereignty and the new lakes/lochs sovereignty continue to add new spaces.  It's not EASY to find a space to move a city, but it's far from impossible.

I hear ya... let's keep talking about solutions. Clearly some veterans of the game want their 10sq, so it's a no win/compromise in ELGEA for the most part.