In the DJ and Q&A on pre-alpha we were given numbers :

6 kingdoms per continent, 12 duchy per kingdom and 24 counties per duchy.

We also learned that during KoE our domains will be able to grow or shrink depending on players actions. That the shrinking will only goes to the limit of the smallest domain size available.

The previous numbers we had were from the DJ on land management 6 to 10 duchy per kingdom and from 8 to 64 counties per duchy, with a maximum of 2000 counties on the continent.

• is the smallest size of a county still the same ? (small county allowing for 100 or so characters in )

• Players can not lose their title and domain in KoE, but NPCs can be consumed entirely. That mean the number of sub domains can shrink too, is there a limit to it ?

exemple a duke has only 3 player counts, so only 4 counties are player owned, can they end up consuming all the NPC counties and at exposition that duchy has only 4 really big counties ?

an other exemple, non likely ever occurring but possible, a duke has no player counts, can he manage to consume all the 23 NPC counties into his own ?

Last question,it has been asked often and i know there is no answer ready..... Settlements are generated and as such it is impossible now to tell how many are going to be present in each domain, some of them might have only one or even none at all.

But the number of settlements is importent to know how many aristocrate one can invite in his county, and if all counties have only one settlement there is no room for any aristocrate.

I do not know how many aristocrates other counts have invited to settle in their county, i have done it with one, and i do not feel confidence to invite more because i'm afraid there will be no room for them.

• Would it be possible to have some estimation ? like do not plan on more than 3 because that is really unlikely, or it should be safe to count on 4 or on average we expect that counties will have 2 settlements ......

Understanding that as numbers can not be known there is no guaranty, even if for exemple average should be 3 does not mean every county will have 3 , but some rough estimations and/or limits would help a lot.