As for the magic limit, I hope its usefull, and scaling per level/magic circle, I for one dont like only being able to use my sovereign as the only proper magic user and any other champion its only really "viable" to go for haste/slows. (even tho the spells seems abit unbalanced anyways).

For the monsters to respawn - I hope they firstly make monsters protects theyre nests abit more, I see them often wander 1-2 tiles off, leaving the nest empty for clearing, and I hope it wont flood my "Civlized" lands with weird random spawns far away from any real battles, although if they had a minimum range for cities, meaby even border, can be different per creature too, could be an interesting event to have some minor monsters spawn in your backyard.

Sincerely
~ Kongdej

It just seems wasteful that once you have a zone of control nothing really bad can happen. You can leave everything empty and just build your forces on the border.

Pretty lame if you ask me.

https://forums.elementalgame.com/417474  - I had a couple ideas here regarding neutrals/independants, I believe something like this would add so much to the 'World being alive' feel

If you don't want tha b*st*rds migrating down from the North then send an army up there to take care of tha 'nest'.  I"m just saying that without the ability to grow & become a menace then they're just temperary 'bland' bumpers.  I say let them grow & have a leader & take on a story book type atmosphere rather than all of a sudden a new camp or two spouts up from nowhere (like on that pennisula you cleared just a moment ago, 'where'd these guys come from, this doesn't make any since').

edit: and the percentage chance of them growing into your territory could be less than other territories (based on prestige/faction power?)

sense*

You can think of them as bumpers, but that is really just a westernized view of native inhabitants. I see them as owners of that land. As an American I feel a natural instinct to wipe them out with extreme prejudice and then lie about it to future generations. I was talking about lairs that spawn in my territory, between cities and near resources that I have classified as protected by geography. It would be bad design to allow this. Now, having them spawn from outside of my territory, build up armies and then attack, that would enjoyable. I have said elsewhere that I believe monster spawning has been nearly turned off for this iteration of the beta. In my mod, I turn the levels up to about where they will probably be on release. It is simply a matter of defining how fast you want them to grow, where you want them and how many you want to start there. It's not something that needs new coding or development. I think they are just trying to have us focus on other things.

I agree with this part, I think the defense of your land should be due to random events or AI forcing they're cavalry past the first cities to hit your undefended cities (or rampaging your resource nodes)

I don't like the idea of nodes popping up now and then anywhere for no apparent reason.

But I think I should be able to take the fights to strategic chokepoints, not be forced to have a fight with the world and every bit of grain in my territory, since that would penalize a big territory not by penalties, but by boredom of managing warriors running around on patrols in your own region.

Sincerely
~ Kongdej