big change?

[Hooahguy]

a long time ago (in June, IIRC), an EB team member over at the TWC said that there would be a major change in EB that would effect the player, not the AI,bit players could chose to play in a way that the effect wouldnt change anything.
i fail to see this change.
what is it?

[The Celt]

I think it was the puppet governor thing. That sounds something like what they were describing.

[Landwalker]

Although it doesn't meet the "players can choose to play so as to avoid the effect" requirement, I believe it's mentioned in the 1.0 release announcement (with the list of major updates) that the army strengths of Eleutheroi settlements and for nearby AI factions will be significantly increased depending on the faction the player chooses to play as, so to make the early game and expansion more difficult. Since it's contingent on the player's faction selection, it has relatively negligible effect on the AI.

Cheers.