Im about 550 turns into Pontic campaign and reached the point when money flows and there isn't anything i can do to reduce it other than perhaps keeping 10+ full stack armies in the field. so every other governor is now an 'embezzler' and gets public order penalties, which is quite a problem as most of my settlements have grown into large cities. the embezzler trait doesn't seem to reset even in the generals who were in the filed and campaigning for several turns. so my question is, is that it, should I bin this campaign? how do you deal with this?
i don't wont to be reduced to gamie gimmicks of giving hundreds of thousands away just to get below 100k. keeping 10+ full stacks around is also quite an exotic option, especially considering there is no buildable forts to create army camps/bases. not to mention that this will enable me to steamroll the map (something that quite frankly I could do now with my 3 full stacks, let alone 10), and kill any challenge.
so is that it, game over?