Dominion Spreading effects

[Kristoffer O]

Dominion far away is probably a bad event for another player. Plopps doesn't die unless they encounter enemy dominion IIRC.

[Arralen]

Sorry if I didn't made myself clear enough - I have observed the following multiple times:
Multiple "plopps" which traveled through enemy dominion, and further on through no mans land, and settled 5 or 6 provinces away in an indie province (which had been indie since that start of game). My dominion remained there for several turns...

I wondered how this could be, and figured that somehow the dominion must have spread not to neigbouring province but neighbouring number - but that didn't seem right, as it wasn't exactly such a number. Now that I know about those traveling "plopps", I'm pretty shure that my assumption was/is correct.

Ah - just dug out 2 old savegames which clearly show that dom actually spread to a neigbouring province number in that case - from prov 8 to prov 7 ... which is at least 3 hops away from any of my dominion. And it stayed there from before turn 37 on to turn 44 (and maybe longer..), despite high enemy dom in the neigbourhood!

To me the only possible explanation is that "plopps" leaked from my home province into that far away province... (yeah, I check the map file for errors, but all the neighbour declarations where ok).

[Arralen]

7 turns later ...

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[Arralen]

... but the company refused to comment ...

[Kristoffer O]

I started to write an answer but was interrupted. I have an explanation I think.

Several plopps move into province 4. One settles and increases dominion there. A couple travel into province 5 and one into province 7. Now enemy plopps move into province 4 and 5 and retakes the provinces. All this happens during one turn. Province 7 is farther away from the enemy capital and survives longer than 4 and 5.

I have no idea in wich order plopps from different provinces and nations travel.