I love the new village authority system, up to and including the claims. However it suffers under the same frailty as the old permissions system... Not enough options for groups.
Can we get more colors (like 64 of them to ensure there's always enough) or even better a way to create and name groups? That would be awesome.
Also -> Custom groups PER Cairn with an inheritance option to speed things along would be even better.
...
Child Cairns would work great for this. (Since they have a 30x30 limitation on size)
You place a Cairn, any fresh built cairn would be a 'parent cairn'.
You right click a cairn to get a 'child cairn' object, which you can place as a signpost and build a new cairn. (Maybe make the child object optional like sketches?). This causes two effects: It inherits all the groups and rights of the parent cairn, and makes all rights of this cairn tied to the parent. Change the parent, you change the child. You can also change the child independently if you want a slightly different set for a related cairn area.