Quote Originally Posted by citadela01 View Post
Actually building homes to boost BE is counterproductive. You get more practical effect by diverting land you used for homes into overbuilding other types of buildings. Its been numbercrunched and proven many times already.
I'd like to see that math. Let's say you have 10% homes and 100% BE. Now you take away those homes and put 'em into TGs. Your TG bonus might go up even w/ the additional 10% buildings but, eventually that will fall, too. Not to mention the fall in BE will effect bonuses from all your buildings.

0.8 base ppa 10% homes will provide is quite a lot.
That's not a lot at all. 100 homes give you 800 additional peasants. That's such a sad addition to the population. Not a lot of ppl from high end KDs are going to reply to this thread 'cause they don't use homes since they run KD specific strats, which might make up for weaknesses here and there. But, if you are just talking about Utopian mechanics then those provinces are not well run. Just SOT any of the top provinces and see what kinda' BE they run. Most of the utopia can't be run like them. How many of us can run a 4k acre Orc w/ 89K def points and get away w/ it?