Total number of creatures divided by 1.14 raised to the power of (number of weeks minus one) = initial number of creatures.
Please note: the formula is APPROXIMATE and only works with a sufficient number of creatures; the formula does not account for weeks or months of anomalous growth.
Regarding alliances: within 2-5 minutes, any map can be converted into an alliance map for any group of locations. This is achieved by removing/adding castles of the required colors.
A dragon farm exists and is called a dragon city.
A random map generator is very much needed. To achieve this, templates need to be developed, based on which the generator will operate. AlexSpl came closest to implementing this task, but unfortunately, other versions of the game took him away from us...

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