Quote Originally Posted by vpapako View Post
What I am proposing is wether it is possible for Cathage to begin the game with most of it's non-African colonies as trade-stations, similar to numidia's nomad camps
That would not be possible using the same game-mechanic that the nomadic/settled system uses (ie city/castle). The city/castle mechanic cannot be used to represent two or more different systems as the overlap is impossible to contain. Carthage's trade stations would then be usuable by Numidia (and other nomadic factions) to maintain their nomadism, which wouldn't make sense in some systems.

Furthermore, it would be a poor representation of province itself. While Carthage's interest in a province may have been in small trade outposts, that doesn't mean that was all that's there. Other factions, in control of the province, might well find their administration in other parts of the map. As we cannot have a dynamic settlement system based on the types of government and society of each faction, we have to make sure that what we represent occupies common ground.

Of course, how we represent control of a province through government buildings is decidedly more malleable.

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