I think this is one of those things where there is a moderate position between two extreme views of absolutely realm loyalty always and forever amen (CooperationMaster) and every man for himself (ChaosMaster). There is a place for a realm to work as a team, and as addressed on the front page, that is the primary team. But, because of some's tendency to go too far with team-cooperation, there needs to also be a way to buck the status quo and shake things up, especially when the team-cooperation effort forms AllianceMaster and multiple-realm-teams. We (or I) are suggesting that buying a region of your realm goes too far against team-cooperation to be worth the status quo bucking effect. Buying external regions doesn't break realm-team cooperation in the same way, but does allow bucking AllianceMaster.