That's exactly how it used to be, isn't it? If I recall, a couple months ago the update changed from "tied to MH" to "33 total paid expansions available whenever".
Not exactly what I was referring to.
What I was suggesting is that available space for expansion of the city is tied to the Main Hall - at level 1 you have x amount of available space to expand into - at level 2 x amount more and so one.
That way the actual size of the city is dependent on the level of the main hall - not the guest race. So you wouldn't reach the maximum amount of available space until you reached the max main hall level.
Katwijk said
I'll agreed that the game ALLOWED folks to get "too many" provinces, by negotiating, but the number of provinces that are required for the next Advanced Scouting chest has always been sufficient for all of the resources that you actually needed to keep up with the game.
So what you are saying is that in order to be were you and the devs think we should be (unless we wanted to spend diamonds) we should be at one guest race behind in filling those extra spots the devs have given us. At the beginning of Orcs - you should have 20 EMPTY spots waiting for expansion - UNLESS you spent real money to fill them. That's the only way you're going to be at less than a day on scouting and not needing orcs to negotiate provinces.