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Development / Buying a region versus taking it over
« on: May 18, 2014, 06:52:10 PM »
This may be the wrong section, if so I apologize. However, since I'm being asked not to reopen a bug report which has gone unresolved, and my legitimate question has gone unanswered:
What is the actual difference between buying regions or taking them over that prevents one from being done to non-adjacent regions but not the other? Why should a realm be prevented from taking over non-adjacent regions, and yet be permitted to buy them? There are numerous valid reasons for preventing takeovers of non-adjacent regions, supply chain being one of them. Those same factors would also apply to bought regions, so why is a distinction made between the two, allowing one and denying the other?
The specific reference is to Arcaea's strange and ridiculous present control of Haul (a mountainous inland region far from their borders) on the Far East Island. However, the question would legitimately apply to any use of this 'mechanic'.
What is the actual difference between buying regions or taking them over that prevents one from being done to non-adjacent regions but not the other? Why should a realm be prevented from taking over non-adjacent regions, and yet be permitted to buy them? There are numerous valid reasons for preventing takeovers of non-adjacent regions, supply chain being one of them. Those same factors would also apply to bought regions, so why is a distinction made between the two, allowing one and denying the other?
The specific reference is to Arcaea's strange and ridiculous present control of Haul (a mountainous inland region far from their borders) on the Far East Island. However, the question would legitimately apply to any use of this 'mechanic'.