Am I committting apostasy when I say cities are much less important then cohesion?
No. The only reason Arcachon's low on my list is the diplomatic isolation. Without taking diplomacy into consideration, I'd call it Arcaea, Zonasa, Arcachon for the top three.
I think the big realm gripe is unwarranted though, as the whole point is to stop from having one realm rule an entire land, which is gotta be vexing if that's your goal, but is good for overall gameplay. Of course, I'd love to see 50 lines of code written so there could be an elector-states/japan kind of emporer with limited powers who officiated wars between clans only nominally subservient to him, but it's probably a pipe dream unless there are people who reall, really love FEI and have nothing like estates or economy to code.
Tom's planned changes to hierarchy will, in theory, allow a level beyond realms. And, of course, you can RP something like that...As I plan to
Also, are you sure delay arrival doesn't work over sea routes? Because I just checked on the dev server and it looks like it should.
