[Drentz]

I really think this is a cool idea with loads of potential. I definitely like the idea of possibly restricting certain types of resources to specific continents to create a much more strategy driven fighting pattern.

One thing I would suggest concerning Malorn's idea about continent benefits would be to scale the benefit with the percentage of continent an empire owns beyond 50%. So, going back to his example, instead of gaining a 20% harvesting bonus when controlling 51% of the continent, maybe you need 55% control to get a 2.5% bonus and with each additional 5% u get a higher bonus. This could prevent hopping off a continent right after gaining over half control as well as provide incentive to keep fighting for more and more territorial control on one cont depending on how much that cont's benefit or resource is desired/needed.