[Zeldor]

Resource heavy nations suck. Using productivity will be usually a waste of points, event with most of resource heavy nations. You can usually find somethign that does not eat so much of them and focus on it. Sloth3 and Prod2-3 is 200 points difference. Awake SC is a way better investment. You need to conquer provs around cap to get solid resource boost. And you can't take them fast enough without awake SC. You are few turns behind if you wait till you get enough resources to produce enough troops to conquer surrounding provs. It all depends on the nation though. Some high res troops don't need bigger numbers and you can go with some productivity and dormant SC. But it's usually only because you have no other troop to expand with, not because they are so good. Agartha has cave knights. They are way better at conquering any indies you can meet. And they are upkeep-free later.