Thanks a billion, exactly what I was looking for.
Matbe so but sadly not accurate. Having just spent 24 hrs playing around with the reservation tool in Corinth it appears to work fine once you know what your doing - that can however take a little time and practice. So........
Firstly you need to give yourself rights (irrelevant of your existing status founder leader etc). However having done that I found I was unable to remove them afterwards so issue sparingly.
To claim a city easily go to your intended target click on the city>city info and there is now a reserve button at the bottom.
Clicking on it puts the claim in the reservation tool with the default settings. All players should be able to do this.
This will now put the relevant icon on the map as well as adding the comments to the city info (and even the attack button)
So far it is not possible to claim the same city twice.
For normal players to delete a claim the release button on city info does not seem to work but if you go to the tool itself use the red "X" on the right it will give you a drop down click and confirm - job done.
Note you can only enter claims for yourself
So far the above has worked for ALL players irrelevant of status.
For the Administrators:-
if you wish to enter claims for others
Go to the Reservation Tool (RT) click add new reservation use the pop up to enter the city name - by default it will have your name just below it - click the x and enter claimants name then click add reservation.
When deleting click the red "X" at the end but this time it will give you 2 options delete the claim entirely or free up the claim by releasing it to the alliance> select as appropriate.....confirm etc etc
Map Icons
Claims that have been made are represented on the map by a circle symbol over the city with a square inside
Yellow = your claim
Blue = alliance claim
Green = pact claim (if you share it)
If you wish to share the RT you need to go into settings and manually input your pact ally name and then they have to accept it - similar to shared tabs
Whilst there you will note the default settings for claim validity is 7 days (we switched it to 3) and the number of claims a player can make is culture points +5. This is misleading - its actually city slots + 5. So if you have 3 slots you can claim 8 cities LOL . A setting of 0 would give you claim only if you have the slot(s) We set ours to +1 as players often launch a long cs etc...........
REPOS
Sadly theres is no way to add ALL of a players cities However the good news is you dont have to type them all in by hand either. I found the easiest was to go to your old forum list of available cities>click on the city > click city info>then use the reserve button to reserve it for yourself.Once completed go to the RT select the Own tab > click the delete button but this time select the lower option "delete player assignment". This will free the claim up for the alliance - place an icon with a big white tick over the city. Tips-alter the no of claims to 20 or 30 whilst adding a lot of repos as you can do them in a batch rather than one at a time then revert settings back once done. NOTE using this method cleses the forum page every 5 city info clicks but otherwise its a lot faster approx 200 repos in 30 mins "phew"
These repo or free for the alliance claims will all appear in the new tab.
Clearing completed claims couldnt be easier. click the icon top right for expired reservations and it will filter those cities where the time limit has expired AND those cities where the owner is now the claimant (ie conquered)
There are a few other small bits like the search filters but Im sure most of you will figure those out.
Im actually quite impressed with it so far barring a couple of minor glitches and the REPO thing.
The new toolbar is sadly a different story
