The colonise only servers got rather boring after some time. The problem with them is that after not having to defend against having cities taken from me, I had become rather soft and a little fearful of being able to lose the historic cities I was taking to others.
I do not think allowing NPCs to stay is a good idea, their removal is why I prefer age 2 to begin with. I never liked the idea of being obligated to farm all day, and I believe the best solution to be something other than allowing NPCs to remain.



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