How to successfully utilize your "Dominion Wall"?

[Frostmourne27]

Ummmm...
To (crudely) test this I created two gods, an abysian oracle with nothing but order 3 / misfortune 3, and a man oracle with turmoil 3 / luck 3. I 'played' on clash of the titans, found that starting income is about 165 for abysia and 140 for man (i did this several times, these #s are average) set tax rates to 50 (I had to - abysia kept getting unrest events - without actually playing the turns, I couldn't work around that. I got REALLY screwed up results. I hosted balnks and checked money level every five turns for the first 15 turns, then did it all over again. I found that they were usually about equal on turn five, fortune ahead on turn 10, and fortune/turmoil having about 2x the gold on turn 15! That's crazy, I MUST have screwed with settings somewhere. I'm playing on a modded CD 5.4 complete, but I don't think I've changed the scales at all. Could someone PLEASE do something similar and maybe generate some results that are... sane, or have I screwed up badly in this? (that's probably more likely...)