UPDATE: MORE FROM THE COMMUNITY MANAGER IN BETA:
The constraints are only about moving people away from the center. A bit more clarification:
* You will be moved INWARDS if you are ACTIVE, AND there is an available space closer to the center. This is NOT done when you have the setting for this disabled.
* We remove inactive people from the map by marking the space they occupy as "free". However, they are still shown on the map until someone else takes the spot. In that moment, the account is removed from the world map (not visible)
* Someone who is marked as inactive and comes back, will be placed back on the same spot they were in before, UNLESS it is already taken by someone else in the meantime. In that case, they are moved to the next best place (the usual: the spot with the same pattern of neighboring provinces, closest to the center). In this case, and in this case alone, the setting for moving the city is ignored. Simply because if it weren't, we would have two cities in the same spot and that's of course not possible.