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- Biddles

If your curent border is based on all of your current cities curent population "Land in use footprint" a line of 4 size 1-6 cities your borders will look like this (the Capital leters are your curent border

AAABBBCCCDDD
A*AB*BC*CD*D
AAABBBCCCDDD

Asuming that one of the cities becomes (say b) size 7(and adds Land to its "land in use" footprint,) then your border would probably look like this

.....BBB
AAABBBCCCDDD
A*AB*BC*CD*D
AAABBBCCCDDD
.....BBB

If your opnet builds a city next to yours, say here
(the Small leters are your opontes teritory)

.....BBBo<< oponents New city
AAABBBCCCDDD
A*AB*BC*CD*D
AAABBBCCCDDD
.....BBB

then his legal border and yours would look like this

.......aaa
.....BBBoa << %
AAABBBCCCDDD
A*AB*BC*CD*D
AAABBBCCCDDD
.....BBB

(%o is the "oponent City" a is his Land in use footprint)

Asuming for this example the next city to grow is C, then the Revised boarder will probably look like this:

.......aaa
.....BBBoaC
AAABBBCCCDDD
A*AB*BC*CD*D
AAABBBCCCDDD
.....BBBCCC

And so forth,

now if the Boarders are based on each cities Max size, and not the curent "used space" then you have a whole 'noter can o worms, as you need to run and fill the map with widly scatered cities as quickly as posible

hmmmmm

the games not released yet, and were already discusing strategies(sigh)