Rules on Settlement Building

[tomorrow's sunshine]

Or you could just delete the settlement and refund half (or none of) the coin used to claim it. Realistically, skirmishers from Aphros - NPC or not - would have just destroyed the settlement as it was being built. There's absolutely no way that they would let a settlement be established literally directly outside the (IC) largest nation. It's simply not possible.
No one needs to waste their time with a razing when the settlement would have been destroyed in the first place regardless. All this is going to do is:
1. End a few unlucky bugs and Aphrosians' stories literally a single year through the game if cap rolls happen - being captured by a bug is as good as death, and there's no doubt that the Aphrosians are going to return that favour.
2. Cause an unsatisfying conclusion because there's no loot to be had or victory to be gained - it's just destroying something that shouldn't be there in the first place.

And, EVEN IF Delphina/the bugs win the right to stay there - no matter how unlikely that is thanks to Aphros' power and their verbers - what then? The settlement will still be right outside of Aphros' front door like an eyesore. It'll still be the first thing you enter as soon as you leave Aphros from the northern side. It may as well just be a war camp more than anything.

To me, the fairest options would be either deleting the settlement with a refund or otherwise pushing it somewhere else.

I agree with this. Maybe not completely, because as ratqueen stated in the post below this one it's in a central location in comparison to everything else, but the "the construction would've been interrupted" part is true. Like. Very obviously it would've been razed to the ground the moment it was noticed lmao, seeing how close it is to such a disputed territory

I- honestly don't really like this building system in that regards. Shit is literally just built overnight; it's weird oocly even if icly it took a while. I'm probably getting downvoted for this, but, maybe make the buildings take at least some ooc days to build, so other nations can act on it if something like this happens? Doesn't even need to be mechanically, just- stating it'll be built and shit, in case for settlements that are so close to a disputed area like the mines.

I'd love to be proved wrong tho.