To be honest, I'm struggling to find a good reason not to suggest awarding this game to Marignon with a "well played" card attached. Although not sure if this appears somewhat ungrateful to the time spent, and the fine efforts of, Chrispedersen, Edi, Johan, KO, all those at Illwinter, and those unmentioned here, who did us players a great favour in getting the game running again
But my take on the game as is stands though is that Marignon+Agartha have an alliance of some sorts, which is fine, but even if the remaining nations teamed up against them, I'm very doubtful of any success in the end. Agartha has had the Nexus up for absolutely ages now (wonder if it's actually a Dom MP record?) and I can't see how it can ever be downed. Even if it was somehow dispelled, I'm pretty sure JM is a good enough player to have a stash of Astral gems waiting in reserve to put it straight back up again. And add infinitum for all other attempts to take it down. And if this game comes down to a gem attrition war, either via global casting or wish/summons casting, then Marignon+Agartha will win hands down due to the "Wishing for Gems + Nexus" tactic.
I'm happy to keep playing if there is still likely to be some mystery or surprises left in this game, or if Agartha and Marignon are likely to turn on each other at any point. But if it's just going to be a matter of Marignon+Agartha allied until nobody is left, and then claiming a valid joint/aided victory or something, then I personally would prefer not to spend perhaps 50+hrs over 30+ turns to reach a result that is looking obvious and unstoppable at the moment.
I don't mind spending my freetime on this game, and I will always fight until the last in my games if I know it might have an effect on the overall outcome. But pointlessly continuing a game where the winner is already very obvious is something else again. As that I would consider a waste of time.
Please let me know what you all think of awarding Marignon or Marignon/Agartha some sort of victory at this point. Or if not, tell me what realistic hope anyone else has of winning that I'm missing.
As to what we do about the unit/commander limit. Don't know to be honest. I'd struggle to believe there are 9k of commanders on the map though.