I am a complete EB addict as proved by the fact that I should be looking for a job but I'm more concerned about my current Epirote campaign.
This campaign got me thinking because now that I've conquered greater Greece and the italian peninsula I'm making butt tons of mnai. THis going to make my eastward expansion much more manageable especially since it looks like I'm going to be facing a unified ptolemaic faction and a very strong pontic faction.

Anyway having all this money made me realize that I don't know how to get some of the weaker factions like the Sweboz or Getai or Hai to make money. I can usually get one good stack going but my cities are completely unprotected. I can't protect all the edges of my empire with one stack and I don't know how to get their economies goin better.

What are your strategies, how do you overcome shi##y economies.

oh and how do you force diplomacy?

thanks