Lets keep the economists out of this!

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Sorry, totally disagree! I want a MUCH more complex economy to play with. The current economic system is grotesquely silly and one-dimensional.

Unit production and maintenance should be MUCH more closely tied to the underlying economy, and warfare should have a MUCH more significant negative impact on a province's economy.

By the same token, I agree that the entire economic system should have the option of being either greatly simplified or else partially or totally turned over to the AI so that those poor benighted philistines who only want to battle endlessly (yawn!) can have their druthers too.