I found the bug that made the Elf race rich very quick - Vincenzo - let me know if it is paying less or in other words (normal).
In follow up to above... having horses was meant to be a cheaper way to travel. I did not add in any code to stop you if you did not have horses.
Although I added in the skirmish attack I tried attacking a more powerful enemy and did not get anywhere.
JB:
I seem to be getting paid about the same as I was at this point in the game last time, so maybe your change will show up later. I was thinking it had some sort of scaler with quantity of soldiers doing the exploring? However, there is a big bug that I had not seen before. I just attacked you can killed off your soldiers. That was fine, but I got paid like 1.2million gold for it. I thought you just found a way to get a LOT of money....so I did it again and got another 1.2 million.
What the heck! That is a HUGE bug... thanks for letting me know. I will have to fix that and get back to you here.
UPDATE: I think I know why you got that huge amount of gold. I am currently testing and in order to do so I need a goodly sum to accomplish this - so your soldiers bit into it.
Vincenzo, I think we need to pull our characters out of this game and then we can add ourselves back. All that testing has given us an unfair advantage over the others - what do you think?
If you agree then respond here and then I will immediately reply when I have made the change.
No no, that gold I purposely added to my account for testing. I needed to know (without limits) what caused certain bugs. Having found those I the deleted my account (as above).
100 Turns were added to your account.