Territorial claims

As translated by a guy without as much of an accent:

"With the upcoming change to the way the fundamentals of the game works (in regards to moving cities), I expect many alliances will begin to claim chunks of the map. I was wondering if we couldn't discuss the sort of norms that will likely govern once this occurs, in regards to wars being fought and whatnot.

I, for example, see wars fought over border territory as "legitimate" wars that could be enjoyable for all sides... assuming its doesn't conflict with the entangling alliances we have right now that insures most wars end up as something far larger in scale.

For example, my alliance has plans on claiming a certain chunk of territory shortly before we are able to move, and we plan on defending this claim quite vigorously. Obviously, we don't want to drive players from the game, but we aren't averse to dealing with the situation diplomatically before conquering a couple large cities and then forcing the other cities to relocate. In large part, I'm wondering if others are planning on doing the same - declaring a certain region "theirs" and theirs alone.

I for one look forward to seeing several alliances claim some island in the middle of some river somewhere to be theres and having them fight over it.

As an initial 'general rule of proper conduct' I feel wars over territory should limit themselves to attacks against cities within the disputed territory, and conquering or razing cities outside of the territory isn't acceptable unless one side clearly conquers the region and the other side is insistant on continuing the war.

Anyways, just looking for what other people think, and if anyone else sees things this way."

Jargas wrote: the land that is fought for, should go to  the better alliance. Not the alliance with the most friends.

Obama??? Is that you???

@Norasha
Those cities, that might go in your way before relocating can only be New settlements, and those might be all that's lost in those possible teritorial wars, if allies stop after their real cities are relocated....
Well their might be some unfriendly alliances intelligent enough landing their clusters those 10 squares from each other on the map...might be interesting.
If you have someone building a settlement right where you wanted, perhaps there're ways to share a part of map with another ally peacefully  (probably by letting them in your ally while resettling, and then letting them out again). 


Else, such a little settlement doesn't take much time to be removed....