I support this change, the higher city nation will still have a massive advantage competitively. A massive down declare will still cause the lower city nations military to disappear, all it will do is lessen the effects of the damage. Perhaps it will discourage war stat padding as well.
Wouldn't it be more productive to address the ability to calculate spies? Making spies public may be a short term solution but isn't beneficial to the spy system in the long term.
I would consider soldiers last place but their benefit to raiding puts them above ships. I also consider how ships lack any use other than infra damage since blockading someone is useless if a player has any competence.
The capping proposed doesn't really solve the issue of a city 30 down declaring to a city 20 or something. Reduce city score to narrow the scope of down declares so realistically it could only be a five city down declare.
Don't bother with capping cities and just reduce city score.
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