Alliances have been advertising what they view as their own, and in turn what another alliance is granted in their view.  Check the players alliance page.  If they claim 20 tile radius rights for rares . . . that is hilarious.

If you can support the rare claim, then dont worry about it.  It is yours.  You claimed it with your army.  They should have done so.  If they move on you to take over, you now have moral high ground and warrant for striking back ten fold if you are able.

I don't think the player has done anything wrong by placing a garrison or should even have been asked to move that garrison. 

plus one to Invictusa!

I think now Alliances need to agree to fair fights....

a fight's goal is to WIN. by any means.

nothing is more pointless than an honored defeat. better a dirty victory. 

Well if a player does not move their troops from a nice lil spot that's within a Worlds End city...
They can not complain when their troops die... end of!

Is not an act of war IMO! 

Also Devs did this for a reason... Friction should be noted and played through nicely between players.

This is the NEW TOURNEY! Just fight for the squares .. but hey, if are a decent player... whats wrong with a mail and a little sharing?? 

I as a leader, back my alliance within 5 squares.. after that.. it is up to them!

I will say this though...
I do not understand why so many are occupying squares so far from home... 

Did nobody mention that Defense in this game is absolute crap??

Blessings to All!

hmmm. Simple answer there is no one owns anything except their city and their sov.

Regarding harvesting Victrix policy is that we don't consider anything outside 5 tiles from our cities and not on a sov tile to warrant any fuss at all - irrespective of where it is on the map - if we don't protect harvestable rare goods and someone else comes in and puts a garrison on them that's just life. Indeed I have a garrison from another alliance just 7 tiles from one of my cities - it dosen't bother bother me in the slightest, was my fault for not spotting the rare herbs sooner and it never even occured to me to tell them to leave - I have better things to do and the time spent fussing over it can be better served by finding other things to harvest. 

However we have no grapes or rare minerals in Larn which is our main base, and trading prices are still silly.

In consequence we WILL and do garrison resource tiles, if we feel they need protection, a stance which seems to be pretty universally applied by other alliances (although in the centre I have seen garrisons from other alliances very much closer than 10 tiles to each other and to other cities and no one seems to take serious umbrage - pretty much impossible to do otherwise in heavily populated areas where everyone is on top of each other).

 

The short answer is there is no short answer when it comes to garrisons. I advise you look at the situation as a dynamic, exciting game mechanic that offers an endless number of possible approaches and outcomes while putting your negotiation and persuasion skills to the test.

If you want to "own" a square for whatever reason claim sov.  Just parking an army on it only means "need bigger army" for others interested in the same square.  There is an upper limit of new resources per square.  An occupation without actually working on the square wastes blocked resources when they reach this limit.  

100% true? you are joking i hope. sov close to your town are whit no doubt yours. up to 10 squares. but further out sov does not mean a thing, it's a fancy and expensive flag. that gives you slight edge in combat and visibility. that's it.

The only thing in game that will keep others off a square is an occupying number of troops who are willing to DISPATCH any other player's gatherers/troops.

You want claim to a certain resource square? Legit?  Not to sound cliche but well. . . 

Put up an army - or shut up - 

Excuse me but you are completely turning the question upside down. The player who is calling ownership of a square indipendently from the distance is the one who sends an army to occupy it, preventing all other neutral players from harvesting. The player who is 20 squares away and is NOT occupying the square so that everyone can harvest and would like that things remain like this is the one who isn't making any claim. You've got a rather wicked view on what monopolizing means.

 

Harvesting on someone else's sov spot is like taking flowers from their front yard: sure, it isn't well protected like the valuables locked in their house, and maybe you'll get away with it once in a while, but the community consensus is that it's their property, and trespassing will by frowned upon/punished.