Why do people use normal richness in MP?

[IKerensky]

Hum, my brother tricked me in a Worldmap game... with indies 9 , site frequency 75 and a POOR World !!!

Facing 50 to 80 knights and crossbows to get a wealth 3 province is definitely a new experience for me....

And I wondered why he choosed an heavy summoning Pangea to start with....

[Norfleet]

Rabelais, if the economic crunch seems to really frustrate you, you're either playing a really expensive nation that tends to naturally run into these problems, or you're born to be an Ermor player.

Poor worlds inherently favor Ermor, since Ermor gains nothing from the wealth level of a province, and acquires most of its money from burnination.

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by rabelais:
Am I just a munchkin, or is it an implicit cash/resource ratio balance thing? Seems like rich should be the practical default for MP, where things are often slow/laborious.

A rich world also doubles the resource production of every province, which has a few far reaching effects on game balance.

[Sindai]

Richness setting also effects ashen/void Ermor's starting gem production. With normal you get 10, with rich you get 15.

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Sindai:
Richness setting also effects ashen/void Ermor's starting gem production. With normal you get 10, with rich you get 15.

Yes, but this is a purely local effect, compared with the global consequences that rich or poor richness has: Ermor only has to pay once for every priest, after which every reanimated is free. Everyone else pays twice or half as much for EVERY unit.