Well when you say coincidence… :P
Note that if both this and “Join…” pass, the Ruleset would be redundant, but I don’t see brokenness.

/me ponders with the idea of only randomizing the ordering of the names and leaving the plots intact

Plots of land that randomly relocate themselves seems a little too bizarre.

While dead bodies coming back from death and fighting with plants isn’t, right?

Well let’s say they are islands on top of the carapax of some big tortoises that swap place once a week, or that they are big flying pieces of land. We might even choose the dimensional warps… :P

Sure, it’s easy enough to come up with bizarre rationales, but I’m with Blake Snyder on this; one bizarre thing makes a mundane story more interesting, but further bizarre things on top of that begin to detract from it.

We are all neighbours!

Kevan: I agree, actually, in that I went a little overboard there.

Two significantly less silly solutions would be to keep it in alphabetical order at all times, or to add each new plot immediately below a random existing plot (because we probably want a homogeneous distribution of established/richer players and newer/poorer ones). I prefer the first, because the second could lead to Farmers idling and unidling in hopes of getting a better position.

Keba pointed out that alphabetical order could be abused; if you want to put some clear soil between you and Oze, you can just persuade a friend to join the game with the name “Paul” for a few days. The problems with random positioning are easy enough to fix; either force unidling Farmers to return to their previous position, or have their unattended Plot remain in place in their absence.

I honestly don’t see the problem with randomizing Plot positions, and this is a good start to the neighbor philosophy.  We can work out the details later if we need to, since there’s no real advantage/disadvantage to being next to any particular farmer.

I think that the randomness in this one is even worse that a random initial placement. If I know who my neighbours are likely to be during the whole dynasty, I may create a strategy to prevent this. If I get randomly two bad placement (let’s say near a Zombie Farmer) twice in a row, and I was not ready, I’m screwed. So, I prefer mine.  CoV

[Keba] Do you have a mechanics that would work to have all players neighbours? I’d like to see it, maybe it’s better.