Zones + mth auction

[Stebrian]

Good Evening,

I conquered my first city the other day (yay) but for the first time that meant I had more than 1 zone

the two zones I had were

A large zone (my starting province)
A second zone being the conquered city (a tiny zone, basically a city state)

I was after some advice really

1) should I give some of my large zone to the conquered city zone to make 2 zones of a similar size? and why would that be a good idea?

2) what is the benefit of having multiple zones, and Ideally what to you want a zone to accomplish?

The second thing I was wondering is are MTH auctions worth it,? I dabbled a bit and was getting 50 credits a turn for an initial investment of 2000 odd, so I was going to break even after 40 turns using my Steiner math,

[Hasefrexx]

1. Mostly no point, wasting time drawing borders doesn't achieve much. Redraw borders if you have deposits close to one city so it's included into its zone to reduce admin strain, that's mostly about it. You can also move freefolk settlements from one zone to another to increase migration into the city of your choice, although they will migrate back to the other city over time you can still push them to move towards a zone than the other.

2. Zones are more or less cities. In rare circumstances you can have zones without cities and it's worthless. You want cities as it allows to build more of the assets that can only be built in cities, like bureaucratic assets or industries, although more population means higher level city means higher maximal asset level so that there are pros and cons to centralization.

3. The main thing with MTH shares is that shares give you more opportunities to influence the MTH policies. It can be used for exemple to reduce relations with other majors to make their contracts more expensive, or try to influence them to attack another MTH, to take control of the sea zones adjacent to your enemies for exemple, or to destroy MTH in which they invested shares. MTH income should also increase as more transport contracts are signed. I think it's worth, credits have limited use generally (excess on top of what is necessary to pay salaries that is) and that's not a bad way to invest them. I don't think it's mandatory to involve in auctions and MTH politics but I think it's better to have at least some shares.