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Administrative Snowballing Tweaks

This mod is aimed at hopefully curbing the ease at which the Roman Empire can become essentially unassailable to all but a dedicated human player.

The base influence cost of calling upon someone else's title Men-at-Arms has been raised to 500 from 100, and most of the conditional discounts (eg defensive war) have been removed. The idea here being that it's still possible to amass a truly gargantuan army, it just requires a lot more dedicated political pull. Similarly, if an Emperor or Governor wants to secure the succession or sabotage their foes, they'll have less influence for any military efforts, which hopefully will allow the Roman Empire to organically decay as short-sighted leaders allow the frontiers of the empire to shrink because they've got more domestic concerns.

Administrative also pays 50% more on Men-at-Arm maintenance, and should be paying double for mercenaries. Admins make more and ought to pay more.

Also made two smaller changes to the Military and Naval governor types: Military no longer provides more Men-at-Arms, since Admins can already field so many, and Naval now only gives a +2 advantage instead of +10 advantage for free on any coast, and no longer completely nullifies the disembark penalty, because that +10 when everyone else gets -30 was letting random theme governors do to coastal duchies what whole crusades failed to.