A lot of the inactive provinces are losing their ownership, I assume it must be some kind of inactive player deletion. So theres room now for more folks to join us in England and Scotland.
As far as taking the inactive provinces, we should probably come up with a list of who is doing taking what when we do activate. We'll want it to be organized and careful, in case we get attacked by outside forces right after we activate. Also we'll want to let people know ahead of time, don't want to cause an actual civil war while trying to just take over the inactives.
So far I have that Nate River wants to take Blackpool, and I believe JimiD was wanting to take Halkirk. Martinuzz over in Ireland is looking at two inactive neighbors as well, Londonderry and Ballymena.
Other inactive provinces are Omagh, also in Ireland. And a bunch in England/Scotland.
In England and Scotland I see:
Exeter (Cottongatherer)
Plymouth (tharsos)
Taunton (Fritz)
Reading (Meapoblox)
Ashford (ralph)
Kidderminster (Josh23)
Shrewsberry (Cartmann)
Norwich (Devotist)
Peterborough (Hamidinator)
Coventry (marti26k)
Birmingham (zaridian)
Stoke-on-Trent (Haller)
Leicester (lordorick)
Rotherham (Starszyna)
Beverly (FinnMacCool - also not sure about this one, but I sent a message)
Greenock (virex)
Cumbernauld (Vipesuk)
Perth (Tharem)
Halkirk (inEQUALITY)
Stornoway (McAfee01)
Are all inactive. I sent messages to all of them to confirm, will remove them if they reply.
And these are currently unclaimed:
London (empty)
Bournemouth (empty)
Colchester (empty)
Llanelli (empty)
Blackpool (empty)
Northampton (empty)
Oxford (empty)
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It'd be nice to have all of these reclaimed and distributed out to folks who intend to keep playing. If we could get all of them in the pool we could probably get everyone a second province to manage. I put all the names there, just in case the name changes (it might kick them out and someone else register there). If it does we may have another active player, and wouldn't want to invade them.
Anyone know if someone can immediately rejoin the country after they secede? If you can, there wouldn't really be much risk to it - if outsiders attack they could just rejoin the country.
-edit- Got a reply from Figsly, so he's definitely still active. And someone just signed up as London named Test, still no activity in the province though.