[apoger]

You have to keep in mind that +growth will only get maximum influence at the capital and your core nation area. Out at the borders and inside post-enemy territory the effect won't get you as much, unless the ex-enemy also had +growth.

In comparison +order will pump taxes as soon as your dominion pushes the scales up.

With the weakening of growths tax influence, the scale has lost a huge amount of it's potency.

I suspect we will see many players taking +0, and possibly even -3.

My gut feeling is that both growth and production scales have been diminished to the point that they aren't very important. I hope I'm wrong, and that it turns out to be better balanced than I'm guessing.