[Boron]

Originally posted by Aku:
Well negative dominions kind of make it hard to be diplomatic because the other nations will want to kill you as fast as possible so their provinces arent ruined and also your current provinces are crap to them if they let you stay using them. I cant picture ermor with allies because they harm everyone.

as long as you keep my dominion out which is not so hard in general it doesn't hurt you.
the only problem is if you start only 3 provinces away from ermor because ermor has normally a bit higher starting domain than everyone else.

my direct neighbors are crap for everyone else exept me and pan CW because 15 turns under the influence of my dominion are enough to almost totally depopulate them even without conquering them . so ~ 10-15 provinces directly neighboring me or only 2 provinces away will most likely be depopulated by turn 15-20 almost always.
but after this my dominion will not expand much more if i don't push it via temples and this is only a latergame option for me if i don't get gold from someone else or via lucky events .

but i don't see why ermor always needs to be attacked asap .
my almost total 1 dimensionality to death is even easier to beat mid-late game than early game since earlygame at least your troops will starve .