BTW - I have played a short game with 300% setting. I trully believe its way to much. WAY WAY too much. Try it out also. After a few turns, I have 7000 gold, im building 2 new castles every turn and plenty of armies. At turn 20 we will have castle at EACH province and this game will be more capturing castles then anything else.
I suggest to have those settings at 100%. With 300%, we just dont care about our armies. Ok, we lost one...happans...we have 86 more castles with production between 300 and 500. Gold around 70.000 we will just build 5 other armies

Can you imagine all this micromanagment? Blood micromanagment is nothing comparing to this.
I do like idea of game with magic very limited. But all other setting should be more or less standard. Maybe only magic sites increased.
What do you think?