OK, then: Why the hell did we you add it? What purpose does it serve, other than to make SF RCs a truly abominable investment?
I'm also interested in why the change was made.
If the reason is to make SF more rare, then I think that can be done better in a different way. Perhaps raise the price of upgrading an SF recruitment center? Raise the upkeep cost (dramatically perhaps?) Reduce the chances of creating one? I just think, by limiting the # of maximum held recruits to 25, SF centers are essentially made useless or at least they are completely changed in the way we as characters would have to build units around them.
Usually (as far as my experience goes, which granted is limited) SF are only recruited by the wealthy of the realm as they have a high cost. These characters are also ones that have a higher honor so they can recruit more men. The goal is to get a very strong unit with one character and thus greatly increase their contribution to an army. However, this usually involves them recruiting perhaps a unit of 50 SF which can easily reach 1000 cs. (For reference, my character currently has a 66 SF unit for 1350cs.) This change though would make it impossible for such a unit to be made. If that is the purpose of this change, then I must agree it will be successful. Although, I would disagree that this is a change that needs to be made, or that perhaps it couldn't be achieved through one of the above methods.