Sovereignty claim rescinded

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         There are an interesting 
        step by step guide to claiming sovereignty and a 
        guide to sovereignty, and after reading these guides I tested how getting rid of unwanted sov levels actually works.  
        
         
         Background:  I use my old capital as lab for the new towns.  One of these experiments resulted in a sov level 3 square with a level 2 cattle ranch.  Actually I even had a cattle ranch 5 on sov level 5 for some time, yielding a 5*5=25% cow bonus.  But it became soon clear that I can't really afford to pay 2400 clay + 2400 iron + 2400 stone + 2400 wood per hour for faster cows in a still growing town.
        
        
          Therefore I used the square for a mineshaft 5 (iron bonus) with no upkeep costs per hour, and built three cattle ranches at level 2 for a 3*2*5=30% cow bonus with upkeep costs of 3*300=900 instead of 2400 each per hour.
        
        
         With a cattle ranch 2 on a sov level 3 forest square my troops refused to justify the third level for military reasons, and my merchants decided to get rid of it.  That resulted in the following system message:
        
        
         > FW: Sovereignty claim rescinded at -81|117
> Received: 06 Jun 2012 09:19
> Original Message:
You have given up your Sovereignty claim at this location. Your sovereignty will fall, and continue to fall, until you either re-establish a claim or Sovereignty reaches zero, whereupon the square will return to Neutrality.


          You will drop a level of Sovereignty on or around 10JUN12 09:19.   
         
        
        So rising from sov level 2 to 3 takes 1.5 days if the square is occupied (otherwise 3 days), but falling from level 3 back to 2 takes 4 days.  I didn't try the procedure while the square was occupied, maybe that would reduce the time to 2 days.
        
         
         All sov costs and the complete cow bonus immediately vanished.  The status of the square changed from 
         "balanced" to 
         "falling".  I tried to stop the fall below level 2 by an immediate occupation minutes later, but that only allowed to get back to a 
         balanced level 3.  And of course I was offline when the procedure finally reached level 2, and 
         continued to fall.  Some hours later my 
         sovyet army occupied the square again for a few minutes, and I claimed sovereignty again.  
        
        
         The status immediately went from 
         "falling" to 
         "rising", all costs for level 2 and the cow bonus were re-activated, and the existing cattle ranch 2 survived the few hours in free fall towards level 1.
        
        
Edited by dunnoob - 11 Jun 2012 at 02:20