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Don't get me wrong, I like this guard rail better. ;)

On to another topic:

Not sure if this is new with the patches, but I am running into minor factions sitting on one settlement with 3-4 stacks going no where. You'd think they'd program them to expand.

Which also made me think of the major factions, say a Carthage or Athens, or even Rome if you are playing someone else, why would CA not program them to seek out and complete AT THE VERY LEAST, the province that is their home turf? I can't count the number of times the majors are wiped in my campaigns, not least of which because bandit barbarians or other factions raid them of a settlement or two, they respond by doing jack all about it, and then just slowly die off.

If you are going to create a province system, script the AI to at least at some rudimentary level pay attention to expanding back to fill out the province, this needs to be done because holding down the capital often will lead to starvation, something I also run into all to often.

To say that someone at CA play tested this is a joke. Everything I've ever written about that's messed about this game here or at the main forum should have been caught by anyone playing through this once, just once. Ever.