I like the idea of a training ground, and it would seem like a natural thing to have in the game - it might be a case of one of those things the team have thought of and are working on but just haven’t told us about it yet!
It would, but I imagine it would be something that is a mod rather than an aspect of the core game - unless it becomes a new game mode, but I wouldn’t imagine that happening, or if it did happen, it wouldn’t for a while after launch.
The core game is focussed on that city building aspect, rather than an empire building aspect, and as soon as you venture into that 4X genre I think you lose a lot of what the devs are striving for in Stonehearth.
They’ve discussed in one of the livestreams the possibility of having more than one settlement, and it was something they would revisit but I can’t imagine these settlements being massive, and they were unsure about the whole thing if I remember correctly.
No time wasted at all my friend! Happy first post!