Fair enough considering even if you were to win against an unpeaceful town in a siege they could still block it off regardless

No.

That time has passed, the canal is done and is almost fully functional and is also impossible to block. Idk where you live ingame but as someone who is negatively effected by appolonias claims I want it to remain this way as we now have a canal out of the baltic.

The time has passed to make this change and neither side is giving up their strategic positions. Bad suggestion tbh.

This change should've been made at the beginning of n2, but I’m guessing noone thought it would get as ridiculous and extreme as it has.

We will keep our big ugly retarded canal because the nords have kept their big ugly retarded wall to block us in the sea, we don’t want people running to take away a strategic advantage we have waited almost a month for because we suddenly have diplomatic independence, which is what is happening here.

The points you have made are what we have been saying since Kalmar has existed, now it is Appolonia. Funny you bring this up after we spend hours getting a way out of the baltic eh?

well at the beginning of n2 peaceful towns couldve claimed straits which lead to the rules being placed

Isn't digging artifiacial canals against rules?

The canal in question had direct permission by Zaify to be built

Also, I would like to spill my thoughts on this. I fully support towns not being able to claim *natural* straights and waterways. (Ideally, such places would all be naval siege regions, but that is a discussion for another day.) Due to Appolonia's claims blocking off a natural straight, Zaify had given Cosmic direct permission to build a Canal through Scandanavia to the North sea. I 100% agree with this suggestion except for the last paragraph. All existing canals that are claimed by towns and are not the single way into a sea should be kept. In the future however, I would support canals of this sort not being made, as they would no longer need to be. Cosmic and his team spent over 18 hours and countless resources to finish this canal, so it shouldn't just be zapped out of existance.

@ImperialCutter, remove that last clause and you'll have my full support

Gqldn's amendment is fine with me.

I would support this suggestion should the last paragraph be removed.

Why should you remove the ability to place towns in strategic positions?

Towns will always keep the straits closed IMO,sieging them wont change anything its true.Maybe force them to keep it open if occupied?Idk

Occupation is useless lol it wont force them to do anything