Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20150131101228/@comment-10906938-20150206222054

Lab Coat Billy wrote: (So how about making expansion a little easier, yeah? Not everyone's a warmonger, and those of us who aren't shouldn't be forced into a situation where we can't do anything just because we prefer diplomacy to slaughter.) (This is the way it has to be. If everyone gobbled up the NPC states, players would be forced to fight each other. That would lead to spiralling arguments and just generally chaos. If that can be delayed or kept to a lesser extent, everything will go smoothly. The point of this isn't to smash all that stand before you. Without making expansion hard, there would be no need for cooperation and diplomacy between players. Also, some of these issues (like rapid expansion, religious unrest) may cause problems. There isn't a cooldown between taking areas, but the more you do the bigger a risk you are running)