by spectacle » Thu Oct 15, 2015 4:07 pm
loftar wrote:You mean simply filling from the water tiles themselves? Is there a reason this should be criminal, seeing as how it's infinite?
Loftar is a communist!
In theory this does devalue the claim, since it becomes harder to profit by selling
water, or to gain a strategic advantage by denying it to your enemies. In practice anyonewho really wanted that
water would steal it, so it doesn't matter much.
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