Familiars do have a special ability. It just doesn't get listed and it doesn't cost any mana. It's the vengeance counterattack.
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You built it too close to your other cities that they use up the 5 square proximity restriction on usable tiles for city building. Once you have another city within 5 squares of another city you can't build in that direction anymore and if said city makes it so the other side of your city is still within those 5 tiles you can't build from that city period unless it's a resource tile.
Good work Robert... hope to see some of these ideas come to life
I like where this is all going... [quote who="Robert Hentschke" reply="2" id="2774067"]To shard influence: Water: shard would have a small chance every x turns to spawn a "fertile land" in the vicinity. Earth: same with metal or crystal mine. Air: erosion unearths some ancient whatchamacallits. Library maybe but multiple options would be better. Fire: uhh, fire isn't so great at creating anything positive. Spawns a true neutral fire eleme