Money 'Issues' Leading to Corruption and other Negative Traits

[ReluctantSamurai]

yeah...the answer: diplomats bribe rebel stacks to avoid having the AI chase them.

Definitely a useful solution and one that I use as often as I can. But......

...you cannot be everywhere at once to do such bribing and it really, REALLY hurts in AI vs AI conflicts, not to mention the drain on barbarian economies such as Germania or Scythia to be taking losses dealing with the absurd number or rebel spawns instead of fighting each other.

Better, IMHO, to simply do away with them.

The priority is avoiding healing/farming temples on anything but low point farm provinces (the yugoslav region say) and suck up the "poor farming" traits...price of doing business.

I applaud your patience to micro-manage for traits. You are probably a much better leader in that respect than I. But I've tried to show that farm upgrades and growth temples are not the evil everyone makes them out to be. My style leads me to reduce micro-managing as much as I can so I can concentrate on what's fun for me......fighting battles.

I guess that's why I still will fire up a Shoggie game occasionally after all this time...........