You can change the races 10000x times. the game will still remain boring.
Beside the buying credits and the nub change of cb into sot OMAC hasn't done anything interesting to the game.
So first change should be in relations : The game its about challenge and especially warring. Now getting into a war its like impossible if the target kd doesn't want, they can keep retal warring for an entire age. nobody will gain anything nobody will move on, abusing of FW is a fashion:
A real change would be to change the way you get into war : lets say 15% of total land exchanged, button goes to the kd that has less exchanged land and when both kds are above 20% land exchanged the button is on both sides. ( you either want to war or you want to give something to the aggressor) make a "i dont wanna fight" CF request that could be sent to the aggressor and it will automatically trigger when you lost lets say 15% land or 10% for a minimum of 1 week CF.
Talking about other type of attacks its a bit more sensible : massacres maybe 10% of total population of the kd, same with plunders. ( plunders were used the most to get into FWs.,
to avoid some abuse of plunders again ( like sending all kd gc ( that would be 5 m gc ) to a prov and do 2-3 plunders into it and result into giving relations. ) a minimum attack numbers should be exchanged (like 6 from agg)
however that wont stop abusing plundering so a war situation should happen by a combo of traditional/raze with massacre plundering.
saying that 15% land exchanged would be turned into some points or % to get a war relation and do the same with massacres/ plunders => so then a war relation should be with minimum 20% of the required exchanged land with a maximum of massacres/plunders
after writing so much i believe that 15% land exchanged its a small number but anyway i want to point the idea of how should relations change.
ps: dwarf is way overpowered obvious. they should get some negative buff like -15% thievery and -15% magic.
and get rid of gnome, of his 100% intel and easy intel ops. im a tired of reporting 500 provinces every age and you guys dont reply and also do nothing against it. if you want inaccurate SOT. leave it like that , its just really retarded to leave that race.
and probably the CF after war should prolong to 3 days. so the kds have more time to prepare for outside danger.