Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-26007341-20150323191712/@comment-24108228-20150323211553

If the buildings are correctly spaced apart, then the owner of the village has done a good job. This means that they have sacrificed overall efficiency and space (the latter of which can be an extremely valuable resource on some islands) to make their village harder to burn down, yet without spending time and water to fireproof their village.

And you've missed my second point. You're burning down villages and killing entire tribes. Surely you've progressed past the iron age? Surely you can afford a flint and steel, a very effective firestarter, or at the very least a firemaking bow, which is still much better than flints. I'm not expecting bluesteel out of you (or anyone, that stuff is a colossal waste of time), but you should be able to spend one steel if your going on raiding trips.

As a side note, you probably don't need to sign your posts. Your username is listed at the top of your reply, and the date of posting at the bottom.