[Nagot Gick Fel]

Originally posted by NTJedi:
Upkeep does not scale proportionally to ones own income for some players. I've witnessed strategies where allied players(hotseat) would never exceed X amount of gold upkeep [...]

What I wrote is exactly

Army sizes tend to scale proportionnally to empires sizes, and thus your upkeep tend to scale proportionally to your income

Notice the use of the verb tend? It's a general rule. And you're trying to refute that with atypical examples where it isn't applicable because of players' choices. So basically your point is Trolls should be changed because of special rules or alliances you use only on XL maps? Sorry, but I find this hard to swallow.