Just thought I would raise this point which occured to me to see firstly if people agree, and secondly whether it effects things.
We all know, the larger you get compared to your enimies, the easierit gets to beat them (excluding morale). This is because if you have twice as many villages you can do twice as much in production. You may argue that the increase price in nobles you have to mint more coins, but you still are producing more resources after you've paid for the noble. Hopefully none of that is news to anyone, and is accepted. (unless I've overlooked something)
There the issue occures is any advance given to all players, such as greater resources, is greater for larger accounts. For instance 2 times production in resources is worth a lot more to a larger account when they recieve an extra x amount of resources overall comared to the y amount smaller players recieve x>y *
Now if you lower the price of nobles it is the same as increasing the worth (or amount) of resources that can be spent on coins and as I've shown this benefits the larger people more.
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This is always going to be the way because any benefit now that is a multiplier widens the deviation between two tribes. That's the first bit out of the way. The second bit would be whether or not this should effect how the game is changed, as it can be argued that the top tribe should recieve this benefit as it's the top tribe and thus naturally does. In fact, if we were to assume all players were the same, and so W1N will win numericall, then it just speeds up the process.
Anyway, just something I thought I would raise to keep in mind. My own view isn't against a lower noble cost, just I think this need to be kept in mind so it isn't lowered too much and people are aware of the extra benefit larger tribes gain.
EDIT: It must also be said that any negative multiplier (like an increase in noble costs) would hurt the bigger tribes more.
* The maths is as follows if you think I've made it up. Assuming all villages produce maximum amount (or any amount as long as it's the same) W1n would recieve X amount of resources extra 2x 32487 x (3x2400)- 1 x32487 x (3x2400)= X = 233906400 extra resources (In words that's 2x the resources in each village - the original resources in each village) extra resources where as T4H (their nearest competitors) recieve 2x 20550 x (3x2400)- 1 x20550 x (3x2400)= 147960000 = Y. Meaning w1n would recieve 85946400 extra resources.
