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Mark the Merciful said:
Or are we taking enemy action into account now? We certainly weren't in the previous calculations.
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Naturally not. Your clam/fetish/stone/contract-holding scouts are quite safe from enemy action unless your empire has been completely overrun.
It's already been stated that fighting is detrimental to a clam-hoarding strat.
Military expansion, on the other, requires you to fight, and fighting reqires a continual investment or resources, AND your ROI is much less sure and much harder to calculate (if it goes badly your ROI could be quite negative!
) In short military expansion is a much riskier "investment".