Sorry I even brought Pande up...

I was thinking DoG said he (and whoever was working on it) got it up to 20M, but maybe it was a reference to Sodom in w3 or another village that was known to have broke 20M. But yeah, my point was that if you make your personal claim large enough, it'll be big enough nobody will want to try and drop a Village claim to revoke it, mostly because the amount of authority needed will be so much that even the most active villages won't be able to make enough statues and banners to build up the authority cap.
Yes, it's very easy to maintain, but who cares about maintenance. I was just speaking of "temp villages" meant to do one thing: Revoke the Privilege! Of course, if I understand the authority mechanics right, there's a couple of exploits to fill that much authority quickly. It just takes a lot of dreams and bones.
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