The alliance known as Chaos has established a new land claim in the Broken Lands, putting into place what may be one of the strictest land claim policies in the game and dominating three major islands in the central-upper section of the BL map.
Chaos informed the Times of the new claim, which appears to be the first major claim of its type since YARR! expanded its land claim on December 5, 2015 to include all of the Pirate Isles as well as Death’s land claim in Pawanallpa. The Chaos claim reads as follows:
Effective as of May 21, 2016, Chaos [Chaos] claims the westernmost island and the easternmost island of Glanhad. We hereby declare a no-claim zone on the middle islands of Glanhad.
The rules of the No-Claim Zone are: No military alliance members may settle inside this area. The only alliances exempt from this rule are; Chaos and Roman Empire.
All cities settled or exodused in the Chaos land claim prior to May 21 that were there before this claim are free to remain and continue to grow. Any cities settled or exodused into the land claim after May 21 that are not affiliated with Chaos, Roman Empire [RE], or Love and Freedom [Laugh] will be asked to leave and/or removed by Chaos. Unaffiliated players who accidentally settle into the Chaos land claim can avoid removal by joining Chaos, RE, or Laugh. Chaos offers players who need to relocate their cities via exodus assistance in finding new plots in the BL outside of the Chaos claim.
The claim is similar to that of SIN’s in that no more cities are allowed to settle or exodus into the Gladhad Islands, effective immediately. What is unclear is how Chaos will interpret the stipulation that “no military alliance members may settle inside this area,” since some alliances who deem themselves a “military alliance” are decidedly non-militant, whereas other alliance who do not use this term can be quite aggressive.
Chaos’ new claim is also contentious in that it places it in close proximity to several other land claims, including the LOST claim in northwestern Newlands.
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in my opinion that claim is too large for Chaos, especially with the lack of an application process for unaffiliated players, if there was an application process for players that are unaffiliated with Chaos or any other alliance they named it would be a lot more reasonable for Chaos to make it as large as it is.
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saw it coming a mile away, personally surprised it took so long to declare, likely a consolidation of power in the alliance and confederations, it will be curious if chaos begins to make/join a coalition…
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Chaos seem quite scattered for establishing a land claim, though perhaps they plan to exodus to Glanhad en masse.
The other thing I note is that they have a couple of towns within Wheel of Time’s no settle zone for land claimers.
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Land claims are worthless unless the claimant can defend the claim. Chaos is way too small to protect that big of a claim…. Can you say doomed to failure! Good luck!
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I would like to point out we did plan on a smaller claim, and did post the cords for the small claim on the forums, when the map was updated Lifeless and I saw that it was the two south islands, not just a part of the south one, so we said “why not” and changed our forum post. Now our claim is big ;P
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Well good luck defending it… The challengers will be coming. They always do.
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Ah yes. Taking LC advice from Lifeless. Best of luck.
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lol, what does that mean?
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This land claim appears to have been rescinded as it no longer appears on the land claim map.
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Azhag, ALONE and Lifeless. would appear to have gone their separate ways.
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We did, yes.
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