I prefer not to restrict players. it is only an economical alternative and easy to do but difficult to defend.
It is to avoid the territory mechanics being so restrictive.
it is a problem to design something like this.
in the player's mind should be easy to recognise. the game is not always going to be a museum, sometimes it has to have that practical part.
yes.
my inspiration comes from the citybuilders Caesar II and II and Pharaoh.
even stronghold crusader
but I needed to think about something rural.
The most primitive I saw myself travelling around my country.
I have thought of it as integrated with territorial mechanics.
PD: villages start with small things, some pictures I took of the village where my girlfriend's parents are living.
that seems perfect to me. It is one of the variations that he thought to make like the ones that the Arabs and nomads of the desert in the Middle East had.
Obviously your example is bigger.
europeans historically hate turkic peoples and jews. they have made exterminations(genocide) even early as the middle ages.
the topic about the Khazarians is closed if you check it.