@Stromming Would make them weaker against players too, though. Plus it sounds like a whole lot of effort implementing a system to do that just to affect one T2 unit.
@mexxico Don't know if you're on vacation already, and if you are I hope you're having a good time. Just noticed something about the tribute system though and wanted to write it out while it's still fresh in my mind. Would it be possible to make tribute expire after a set period of time, like a month maybe? Noticing factions getting into early wars and making peace for large amounts of tribute, then never going to war again so it's just constant income forever, and I think it's making strong factions stronger and weak factions weaker.
Example, last game as a Sturgia vassal we were getting 1000 tribute from a completely defeated Northern Empire for years, so it was basically just free money forever.
Current game Sturgia is doing a lot worse, down to just two cities, and we're paying about 2000 tribute each to Northern, Southern, and Western Empires and it's making all the Lords bankrupt and starting to cause defections. The Southern Empire tribute specifically has been paying out for years, and I don't think the two sides ever really engaged in combat, just one of those short wars followed by a quick peace w/ tribute.
I'll probably restart again after the next hotfix comes out and see how that affects it because Khuzait owns half the map again, lol. They managed to fight Northern Empire, Southern Empire, Aserai, and Sturgia all at the same time
