Quote Originally Posted by Schatten
reduction in grow rates only will be not enough i think.
If you reduce only the grow rate so you will have all city´s large or huge after 30 years and not 20 as now...its no really way to fix it.

the only way i think is to allow only few cities to going large or huge at best you allow only lv 3 palace for most cities, for some desert oase´s only lv 2 or 1 and for few like rome,athen,karthago,antiochia etc. lv 5.

Same way as in RTR Naval and City Mod where most Cities can go only to lv 3 (and have no walls too, a other point that were good for EB)
The problem with that though is that you're reailroading the player into doing certain things, because they are restricted in what they can do with their settlements. Rather like scripted characters this is not what EB is about.

The problem is to do with money. The Free Peoples have a huge faction and therefore shed loads of hard cash.