I get the frontier feeling draw. I remember when we left the realm of Giask to form Barca. It was a lot of fun. At the same time, it became even more fun for me when Aurvandil showed up to our south and tension started forming.
All the same, though I get the draw of striking out to the wild and starting a new realm but I don't see how it can be made something that we can keep doing again and again aside from regular serious monster invasions (like we just had) cropping up to clear out a huge chunk of land that can then be resettled. Some might be fine with it but others will feel frustrated if the invasion takes place on their half of the continent.
Even then, one of the things I like about the whole "go out and carve a realm from the wilderness" thing is that other players are doing the same and working with/against these other players and their new realms and seeing what relations form.
