Advance Notice: Changes to upkeep, resources etc

> Moving to a new location in this way will have the same restrictions as the Tenaril's Spell of Ultimate Teleportating (ie must have all your units at home, cannot move to a location that is within 10 squares of another alliance etc).

imho this has the potential to unbalance the game. First you will have players who will use relocating to set up attacks. Illy will become much more aggressive and much more like other browser based strategy games where players port into an area to attack.  Admittedly this might be a good thing if you are looking to increase conflict and strife in-game.

Though porting to increase conflict might increase activity and could be considered healthy in some way, it will certainly upset the natural growth that is occurring in the game and this is not healthy imho. Right now most of the older players and older cities are toward the center of the map. This allows new players to relocate out of harms way if they wish and move to the outside of the map where they can develop and game. With this older players can move with developed armies to the outside of the map. You would pit old players against new players with this to the disadvantage of all new players...