[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by Norfleet:
There would certainly be a strong incentive to start with a CHEAP fort as a result, since you can always tear it down and build a better one!

You wouldn't necessarily be able to tear the fort down. Even if you could, starting with a watchtower instead of a castle would put you far enough behind that most nations that you would struggle just to catch up, let alone match their enemies. Mictlan, R'lyeh, and C'Tis are just about the only nations that can afford the production hit from taking a sloth scale or a fort with less than 30% admin.