you know.. I'm not sure about the barbs growing so big or not, but when I think about what Razz has said about it taking off lots of time on this world instead of delaying, well makes perfect sense... and as of rules not nobling barbs...??? Well , opinions are like butts and everyone has them, but I personally think rules about not nobling them are carried to the extreme..
For instance .. I have a huge cluster and there is a rule not to noble farms in that k... Well, when there is no where to expand in that k, because you are surrounded by allies, what difference does it make especially when the only villages surrounding those barbs are your own own villages???
This has two benefits in nobling those..
1) If you are impacted with every village being yours, surrounding your exsisting villages then you are more powerful and have troops right there for defense...
2) If someone is going to noble a barb by you .. then.. well.. they cant unless they noble you...
In the future we are going to find ourself down to the nitty gritty and when big wars come with the top tribes, I think woe to those that have barbs surrounding them in heaps, because we all know you can noble a barb a whole lot easier than you can a player..
What you going to do when a tribe decides to be sneaky.. noble barbs all around you at once.. stack those villages and then come after you??
As i said.. we all have our own opinion, but thats just a little food for thought.
