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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andor" data-source="post: 4123518" data-attributes="member: 1879">It's not that people are founding towns far from safety, it's that there are damm all safe places to live, and they already hold as many people as they can support. Remember that without diesel tractors and combine harvesters about 90% of your entire population need to be farmers, or the cities starve. So the Kings and cities do their best to protect the farmers that keep them fed, but as the population grows, so does the amount of land they take up (for food production) and the edges are beyond the ability of the King/City to patrol effectively, which limits the growth of the cities. In some areas there may not be enough surplus to support any standing forces beyond a handful of adventurers, and so you have fearful little towns with no protection beyond their own walls. Or at least that's how I see it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>