Rules on Settlement Building

[Touc]

did you just say making settlements is using an ooc mechanic?

I believe that what was said refers to the idea that there's very few mechanical or stated protections on where a settlement can be placed to prevent things like this from happening and is more based on common sense.

For instance, someone could rock up outside of Delphina's crystal mines and build a little house and say 'I own these mines now and have cap advantage in and around them' despite the fact that the mines are *literally directly outside of Delphina and are part of their territory*. That would be abusing the settlement-building mechanic for OOC advantage.

Maybe I've got it wrong or I'm just not making sense, but I think that's about right.