I had rather thought that I would have to wait until Inno brought in the next chapter. The main thrust of my point was why Inno would provide a fixed number of provinces with no way to get them all. UNLESS of course I had missed something glaringly obvious.
It does seem pointless to deprive players of achieving all the expansion spaces, especially when space gets short.
Thagdal - I have never thrown $1000 at Inno. I bought my expansions when I first started playing, when I was youg and naive and diamonds cost a lot less.