Quote Originally Posted by octobrev View Post
It is typically only a practice engaged in by top kingdoms since they have CFs with everybody in NW range to steal. In most cases, every province stocks their own GC. They aren't supposed to be dependent on the bank for gold.

One thing that does work particularly well for less networked kingdoms is anti-banking. A province around 200 acres can hold gold just about as safely as a province that's 20k acres. It can plunder up to a ~50m stockpile of its own before requiring aid to go higher (the gold networth pushes it out of gains range).
The anti bank can also be effectively used to rain FBs, but that's a bit outside the spirit of the game.