[Boron]

Originally posted by Nagot Gick Fel:

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4 upkeep is not much for small maps... but for the XL maps I play the 4 upkeep for the armies I need are murder.

Nonsense. Army sizes tend to scale proportionnally to empires sizes, and thus your upkeep tend to scale proportionally to your income. If you have problems on large maps, it's either due to your inefficiency in dealing with large empires, or to your own decision to sacrifice efficiency to cut the micromanagement down. Anyway it's certainly not due to a design flaw in the game.

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the bigger the map the more likely it is that your income drops in the long run due to global enchantments like utterdark. then with common events most likely many events happened which killed population of you and so on .
the main problem with big maps is that you can cast summon trolls e.g. 5 - 10 times but then you will be at your upkeeplimit and you have much less flexibility than anyone who has summons which need no upkeep . they can spend the money on castles , pd , additional mages , whatever they like .

i still don't see what makes trolls / sea trolls so special compared to all other magic summons that they are the only ones who need horrible upkeep .

especially for water summons this is really not good because they can't rely heavily on the trolls . so in the long run building clams is most likely always better than summoning the trolls . the upkeep is really prohibitive for them . compared to national troops you still get quite much for your upkeep . 3,33 / 4 for sea / earth troll means that they would cost 50 / 60 gold so it is really hard to find national troops of this cost that kill a troll but that's not the point . every nation that doesn't need trolls / sea trolls but can summon death / nature ... creatures has this creatures + troops / mages worth 60 upkeep and so they always win against the trolls .
i think atlantis would be much more played if the sea trolls would cost no upkeep but loose their ability to get 1 watergem / turn .