Quote Originally Posted by Dorkus
Tincow, with all respect, that is a silly answer. Games are supposed to be reasonably balanced. If there is some feature/unit that is making them imbalanced, it is the obligation of the developer to change that. We could of course make all games balanced by all committing to using only peasants, modding the game so that all provinces were identical economically, committing to never attacking, and to changing the victory conditions from "conquer the world" to "sit and build as many peasants as possible." but then the game would hardly be a game. It would be a chore.
Perhaps, but extermination is far from the problem. The problem is how squalor works and how the cities grow. If a reduction in population really WAS a penalty, then extermination would be perfect the way it is. If you want to complain about something, complain about the real issue, not the side one.

If that's a silly answer, it's also a ridiculous thing to complain about unbalanced extermination and yet to continue doing it. It doesn't take a whole lot of effort to click one of the other choices.