So there is absolutely no mods whatsoever to solve this problem? I find it incredible stupid to be punished for having excess denarii to spend. ERE is a big empire, and I tend to be a defensive player. Build everything up to the best that can be built, defend in the meantime, then come out kicking and steamroll everyone else.

Is there no way to just disable the whole system within the game? How would I go about removing all the anti-traits? Or at least the ones that make no damn sense.

As it stands now, I'm getting hammered by the Sarmatians, who bribed one of my best cities and conquered Constantiople from me with their wonderful horde. WRE is sinking every ship I have. The Sassinds are keeping me quite busy trying to finish them off. Most of my cities have no governors at all and my generals are all getting killed off by a super assassin somewhere near Constantinople as I'm trying to bring up forces from Anitoch to pin them down. It's a fine mess.

If I don't find a way to get rid of these traits, I'm shelving it and waiting for MTW 2. I've had about my fill of this non-sense.