Y'know, nuance is still a thing.
"Very small realms are a problem" doesn't automatically mean "the larger your realm, the better."
I don't think that encouraging already-large realms to merge into behemoths is in any way, shape, or form the answer. Having a continent dominated by one or more behemoth realms is toxic to dynamic relationships on that continent—we saw that on Atamara. That's why we sank Atamara.
No, we want realms to be of moderate size: not too big, not too small, and with a reasonable amount of variability in sizes.
Maybe a better way to go about this is to limit the size of the larger realms.
If the larger realms are full, then players would have to join the smaller realms and thereby give more moderate sized realms over-all.
There is currently a limit on alliances to prevent "behemoth" alliances so that no one group can dictate the happenings on any given island.
Could this not apply to realms getting too large as well?
I believe that something of this sort already exists for the War Island? (haven't played there for a while, so not sure of the current specifics)
