Kinda the opposite, especially now. D'harans make bank but spend it on food traditionally so it was good to be a knight, traditionally. Now D'harans make not a !@#$ty amount of gold but I wouldn't exactly call it a decent income either, so D'hara's banker (me) is losing gold while the rest aren't really being affected, which means the lords are getting an ok income while most knights, except for those in a region making a fair amount of gold, get crappy pay but get gold from lords when needed. (I pay those who bought food the price they bought it for so if they paid 40 gold per 100 bushels, I pay them that price, while selling to D'haran lords at 25 gold per 100 bushels generally.)
I'd say the knights who make crappy pays are also under lords who make crappy pays. But we did direct our knights to the lords that weren't making a crappy pay as much as possible. I don't think there are that many poor knights who have a rich liege, are there?
