I don't really see a point in trying to make all the strats and governments "equal"

if you want to win, you run a strat that is good at netting.

If you want to war, you run a strat that is good at waring.

There is no point in trying to make commies, dicts, and tyrs as good at netting as reps, demos, and theos. They are not netting governments, and shouldn't be used as such.

Such radical changes to the game would be pointless and detrimental to the all around game play. You can't have a strat that is just as good at waring and netting, because then everyone would run that strat and all the others would fall by the way side.

These government bonuses and what not have survived and been accepted for the better part of 15 years. I don't really see why radical changes need to be made now. Even more so on just a single server like express, making the servers vastly different game play strategy wise. When preparing to launch a campaign to massively increase the player base, the more similarities between the servers the better, lowers the already incredibly steep learning curve.

I'm all for game improvement, but drastic changes have no place here.