Niefelheim disasters--bug?

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Esben Mose Hansen said:
Also, remember that the nation doesn't matter... only the current scale in the provinces conquered. Which is why good scales are so much more useful with high dominion.

In dom2, the way to get money seemed to be order 3/luck-3. In dom3, I have had better experience with turmoil 3/luck3, in fact for most nations I prefer dom9+,turmoil3,sloth3,luck3,growth3 as the way to get a ton of cash. Those 600,1000, and 3000g events really adds up.

As usual, please note that I rather suck at this game

But it happened in my home province, Niefelheim. So the starting scales were in effect most of the game.