The soft reboot is happening, so one of the first things we have to deal with is reclaiming. Basically, you get the chance to remake the claim for your civ, in order to get a more full and realistic map.

IF YOU DO NOT RECLAIM, YOU WON'T BE ON THE SOFT REBOOT MAP!

We will be judging inactivity by whether or people reclaim.

Here's the basics for reclaiming:

• every nation gets to redraw their borders and cities
• there's no real cap, but try not to stick your borders past 5 tiles from a city, or use more than 10 cities if you want to be 'tall'
• yes, you may add forts in your reclaim if you wish. keep it to a reasonable number
• do not annex too many city states please
• you may not add NPCs to the map, but you may roll play client states within your claimed borders
• border dispites will be impartially resolved in a way you may not agree with
  • Just add coveting those lands (or even having them 'stolen' by the other nation) to your history and motivation.
• consider merging with another player/nation if you can. This isn't a requirement ; just a suggestion
• State if there are any city states you want to remain in particular
• try to make organic border shapes. Tile-to-city ratio no longer punishes you, so try to make more natural looking border shapes
  • A good rule to follow is that every tile you own must border at least two other tiles you own. If your borders don't do this I'll just drop the offending tiles.
• don't worry about naming everything while we're still drawing rought borders on the map, but please name your cities before we start
• Try to make a lot of borders touch. We don't need swaths of empty land
• Consider realism and relative size. Not everyone on your continent needs to be the same size.

I will evaluate all claims and freehand them onto a blank map. You can watch that first draft evolve on dropbox here. As multiple claims go live, you can go to discord to discuss border disputes with other players.

The yellow all over the map is the original placement of hidden city states. feel free to disregard them while claiming, but if one is in a place you want to preserve, let me know.

This process will take a little while, but let's try to make it painless. Unfortunately this will largely operate on first come first serve, even if you posted maps before this post opened.

A post detailing more about the rules and expectations of the remake will come out after the second poll completes.

You can watch that first draft evolve on dropbox here