Quote Originally Posted by rotten View Post
It's a random number script. Just like irl (at the time at least).
Also farming incomes are so low in EB because income is linked to pop growth (which has been reduced). Therefore its not really a major variation in the early game and by mid to late game there is so much money available in terms of trade and mining and tax that farming still plays a relatively minor role, at least the variation won't do anything unless you are running so close to the line...but thats uncommon and possibly poor gameplay in the light of the randomness.