The Kings Purse is not the main part of the problem, Quintus.
It's just a couple thousand mnai at best (5000 is max at the moment, iirc).
The main part is indeed the money script, which adds 1000 mnai to the purse whenever an AI faction is losing money.
I am experimenting with a reduced money script (adding 300 instead of 1000, and substracting 400 instead of 1000 if the factions is making money and has more than 20k.
The results so far are promising - there are a lot less stacks around, especially factions like Pergamon, the Areuakoi and the Nabataeans don't field 5 or 6 stacks anymore, not even after 200+ turns.
Although there are disadvantages, too - for example the fact that Qart-Hadasht is always eaten up by the Massylians.
I just wish I'd make any progress with the planned script to have a King's Purse that is dependent on the factions' size. If that would work as planned, we could completely skip the current flat "if the AI loses money, throw more money their way" Money Script. . .
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