Please remove the new science cap feature (the 4000science/acre decay), it impairs the skilled players that knows how to pump science. And it has no effect on larger kingdoms which gains large acres and bottom feeds smaller provinces which in turn limits the smaller provinces in science which makes it impossible to block the bottom feeders, also it has no real effect on farmers being by mid to late age your not really going to hit a farmer for science due to the huge NW gap.

Basically your gutting the entire middle and low NW kingdoms/provinces where they cannot fight back at all, and we might as well just explore all of our acres and paradise.