Being real and having endured Spires of Agartha's unending battle royale where we just spammed watchtowers to keep the enemy from ever advancing on our cities, allowing the over-night construction of towns, cities or towers without a mandatory contested skirmish beforehand to secure the area (when it is outside of your sphere of influence) should not be allowed at all. The Mines are an area that are hugely relevant to the existing plot. No faction is going to stand for an obvious construction in the area, they certainly are not going to stand around and just let it be built up. To understand this concept: Walking a small army into Aphros in the off-hours because no one is online does NOT mean you now own the city. The same logic should apply with tower constructions and towns. Just because no one was there to stop them from cheekily opening the building menu does not mean they now own the area. No one should be able to build defensive positions in contested lands over night and be protected in that area by better rolls, if those even exist in Meranthe. They are over-extended and exposed, not protected.
Allowing anyone to build a town there, when the entire reason for the existing war is to keep them unaffiliated with any faction, can be considered a fragrant violation of the lore and of common sense.
That's my hot take.
Allowing anyone to build a town there, when the entire reason for the existing war is to keep them unaffiliated with any faction, can be considered a fragrant violation of the lore and of common sense.
That's my hot take.
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