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Keep in mind that increasing the resources that an independent costs to such an extreme number causes queue backups in the AI fortresses where indies can be recruited. My guess is that it does the same thing in provinces without fortresses too. The result is that the AI will build a half way decent army at the beginning of the game, that army will get smashed then the AI struggles to recover the entire game. Basically, the AI is much weaker with the independent units being fixed in such a manner.