If neither of the cities have any headquarters set up, will the cities possibly shut down?

So the new cities would remain no matter what?

I quite like this change to be honest. More like the good old days. As they say variety is the spice of life.

Squishy, a private flight between DT and LA is showing as 12 hours ...

Whilst I love the idea of the game returning to 6 districts I have to ask.

With user base currently does not support this number of districts, redistributing leaders to fill these vacancies; as I am guessing is the option that is preferred by the gods is going to be an incredibly costly one. I think if the gods offered a sort of "opening special" on relocating in terms of repairing forts and buying HQ's they would find the user base much more able to afford and accommodate this transition.

One reservation however, with regards to flight times. I am very much of the opinion that the game would need to return to it's 2 hour flight timer system. When Wack and PP become district specific it was made a lot more difficult to find people during times of war and with flight timers the cost of war increased 10 fold. Now you have added two new places to hide; wars will be heavily weighted to those that have 200million to spend on private flights bouncing around from city to city, and; not to mention the length of time added to wars. You will literally have wars that (assuming people are bored enough) could carry on for weeks.

• Paradise
• The Strip

Those 2 are pretty much the same place tbh. If you're on Paradise, you're on The Strip. Summerlin is basically a 5 minute drive from Paradise. But if you wanted a more realistic and reasonable district, one should be Fremont Street. It was the first "Strip" or "Downtown" Vegas ever had. It wouldn't feel right without it. It's still there and people call it the "Old Downtown".

Also, Boulder City is a consideration.

Just throwing that out there!

To the contrary I think the current system is slightly tilted towards the underdog with how many districts are available to be open - it's very possible to drain a staggering amount of money with a bit of tact, and I think, while I've been an opponent of districts in the past, a good dynamic to the game that enabled more skill and strategy to be utilized other than constantly refreshing for hours on end during a war - it makes it much more of a team effort than it has been in the past.  Old money being depleted during a war is a good thing for the site as a whole, generally - it evens the playing field.  

With how much time is put into people's accounts, war should absolutely be a chore that isn't something to take lightly, and while I think the idea of a week-long war is extremely exaggerated for all but the most absurd scenarios, I'm all for the idea of bringing back the old days where the usual war wasn't exactly a cut and done deal done during an afternoon.  The layout in cities gives leaders a choice - higher revenues and a quick hub to every city in the game, or a fortress that's not easy to get in or out of.  Reinstating the old flight times completely neuters a very decent element of the new cities. 

I am interested to see how this develops, but ultimately a little skeptical that we will see anything other than the traditional approach taken with them.

I love the initiative taken by the gods but like Clive...am a little skeptical as to whether this will cause any actual change.

Very excited about how this will turn out. Hopefully these cities won't be shut down after a week of inactivity. The only thing that annoys me is the reset of the "every city" achievements.

I have an idea... bring back St Louis & New Orleans... remove the districts... one Godfather per city.. 4 crews per city... I mean... just saying...

I think we already went over that issue and eventually it was decided against.

Haven't been here for a long time, so i don't know a lot about the history of those cities.

This community has been asking for these cities, and now these cities are here. The change is probably for the best, only time will tell.

It is certainly though too early to ask for more cities, don't you think?