Wars between level 3 towns were very rare, almost as rare as those in actual cities.
While it may still take decades or centuries before the level 3 town would upgrade to a City, the illusion of having only 1 tier difference still made people think they were on the 'verge' of upgrading to a City.
In these cases, who'd be willing to risk what they had already built for so many years, potentially pulling them back decades or more in progress?
One had to know that the prestige earned when winning wars was not very big unless the defeated territory had a massive influence. But how easy were those to beat?
Speaking of which, it was another reason why Alterra was always eyed on. Whether it was the good products, the infrastructure, the human (or other race) resources, there was also the prestige boost.
It was just that they had set up a lot of deterrents to minimize the wars Alterra itself had to go through, one of which was using their satellites as buffers.
