Nothing stops this one anamolous region from being very large. There should be an upper bound for the number of citites that could be a part of this anamolous region.

The exit Regions rule caps region size at 4

Good point. Clearly I’m still new here

It might be worth removing the enacting admin advantage by disallowing populating for at least the first couple of days that the rule is active. Otherwise you could enact the rule, make the first city, then populate before anyone has a chance to act.

I’d take advantage of it myself, but honestly I can’t be bothered to mess around with trying to time my votes like that this early in the dynasty, especially since others will likely try the same.

Thank you, good catch

I don’t see why we’d do it this way when we could straightforwardly create a city for everyone and assign them to regions to essentially the same result but with less faffing about.

Couple of reasons, for me: 1, if regions are meaningful I think it would be better if they are definitely populated by players who have opted in to play, rather than who are just hanging on from the last dynasty; 2, the existing stipulation around players making their cities gets murky if they’re not the one carrying out the act; 3, doing things is fun, of in doubt always give people things do to

Naming, not making

“Create enough Regions that all Regions except one would contain exactly three Cities” may make the second step impossible. For example, if there are 7 Cities, the first step makes two regions, and the second step always fails the random assignment by the pidgeonhole principle.

First step would surely produce three regions? Two containing exactly three cities, and one exception, containing one.

I had qualms about if there were say 6 cities, but the same principle basically holds. Two with three, one with none.

I do see Bucky’s interpretation as the correct one, but luckily the current player count should avoid that problem, and it’s a temporary issue since the rule will be repealed sooner or later.

Plus we can patch it if it breaks before it triggers.

I’m not following that argument, is this some esoteric maths thing? If there are 7 cities, how would that produce only two regions - surely it would split 3-3-1?

You’re creating enough regions that each region except one contains exactly 3 cities. Maximum size is 4, as per the rule on regions. Therefore, to create the minimum number of regions, you create a 3 and a 4. However, now that you’re distributing the cities, the 4 is invalid so the action gets rolled back.

Aaaaaah! I did bad logic. Well, easy fix I guess.

Assuming the bug gets fixed