Questions by a MP Newb

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Originally Posted by Soyweiser

And your math is WAAYYYY off. 400% means you have 4 times the amount of provinces you normally have. Not 3-4.

If you loose 10% of the population a turn from 1 barbarian attack. that means(also it becomes smaller) that means that you loose 10% income from the 100% income you get from one province. 400% is regarding the one province you loose population from a barbarian attack. (not to mention that if you have 3-4 of your starting armies already done with the expansion they can deal with attacks quite well loosing 10-20% of the income from 1 province every 5 turns (when you get an attack)lets say) so overall that would net to(its decreasing every time since 10% of 90% of the population is 9% the next time but you can ignore that for now for simplicity)
Anyways that would net to 320% of the output from 1 province for 80 turns.

If you have 4 more provinces from inital expansion that is + 400% of the income from 1 province(I refered to 1 province since you were talking about 10% of the province population)(That obviously does depend on location but thats why I said if you can use the scales to make it faster then thats better for you not to mention that if you are a bless fraction you need the points to roll over some other nation)

About diplomatic ties with your enemies. I use logic if someone is careless enough to attack a previously owned province of yours, thus making himself an enemy for you. Then he either doesn't care about you(meaning you are too weak to do anything) Or he is making a mistake and you get to choose wether to punish him by going to war or to gather more strengts.(I'd rather have someone take my ex-province if im at war rather than attacking me straight out)

And if I were on the other side and I dont have enough resources to go to war with someone who just had a barbarian attack taking a province of his at our borther. I wouldnt risk taking it and making an enemy(Unless I was already planning to attack him)In which case its irellevant anyways.