Quote Originally Posted by paradisi View Post
which game are you playing? You start with the ability to make 2 cities?? since when?>? I;ve had to win my medals on the wheel of fortune to get a second city
Everyone starts with the newbie package and lord's package, which contain all the medals required to get the title of Knight, which allows you to make a second city. It's your choice whether to make it immediately or wait until you have converted some flats around you to NPCs first, so the argument that you have to pay money to be able to do this is null.

The argument that the amount of resources/gold gained from doing this is grossly excessive and kills the economy and what is supposed to be the challenge of balancing your resource management and taxes against military production, because once you start farming NPCs, you can essentially keep a 5 cottage 15+ barracks town in full production 24/7 for days in advance and never run out of resources, is a perfectly legitimate argument, and I agree (though I will farm NPCs to excess to remain competetive), though not what the OP posted about.