Quote Originally Posted by QuintusSertorius View Post
On my last Roman game, I never found the expense of client rulers to be a big deal at all. And I had a lot of them. Literally every new province would get one, and I'd progress through the government types at 30-year intervals.
Yeah, but Rome has a strong economy. Then again, if you expand so much that your client rulers become a big upkeep, you should also have a strong economy as a result of that expansion (or you've been expanding into the desert or something).