Village Placement Rule (Directive) [by Spyvou]

Heartland

We've had some confusion about our heartland and I'd like to clear a few things up, and set a new rule.

Our heartland is our strength, without it we are defenseless. As an alliance we have a very large defensive force, but we can only use it to help those who are within our alliance walls. We have the potential to drop 200,000 defensive troops on a village within our heartland and if you follow the attack report directives AND place your villages in our heartland we can do this for you. We want to help you.

"I'm already outside the heartland, so what does it matter?"

It matters because you are going to be the primary targets of enemy alliances during endgame. They will attack your villages first, in order to cut supply lines to our WW. You can kiss any village you have outside our heartland goodbye. BUT if you start building in the heartland you'll still have any villages in there to rely on. I'd rather see a player bumped down to only a couple villages as opposed to zero popped.

"I want to take a cropper outside our heartland"

That's worse than a regular village for you. Not only can we not defend it but it invites attacks to you. You're also going to be spending a lot of resources getting it up and running and it will be taken from you eventually It's not worth it. I would rather see a player with one regular tile within our heartland than to see them with 10 towns and a cropper in a cluster outside our walls. I told another member that our heartland is like a castle. Where would you build your house?

From here on out you are required to place all new villages within our heartland

The Heartand is defined as:The general vicinity of 20-200It's on the main Rise page and also on the main Rise 2 page.