the pen mightier then the sword!
Means that knowledge is better then power. And as of late this has been proven in this game. The so called "best" who had huge armies and had to feed them with the pillaging of the npc cities only used brute force. The "medium or noob" players are the ones who built armies they could feed or only put them in negative food production by a few thousand or more. The "Best" are starting to quit due to the lack of resources now, and the "Noobs" are growing on the fact that they played the game smart. To complain about the so called "Nerf" of npc's is wrong. I think just about everyone could guess this would have happened sooner or later. If it never happened then u would have just about every player with hundreds of thousands of troops and wars would rarely happen. Overall in the end the so called "Noobs" are actually the "best" for playing the game a bit smarter then the so called "best." Thus the pen is mightier then the sword! This is the proof that everyone needed to play the game smart instead of trying to find a tiny path around the actual game!
Thank you for the time to read it plz post your input on this :D