You haven't demonstrated anything. Your argument that more knights is economically beneficial is totally baseless, and the developers know this. 6 months after the glacier, it is still the low-density realms that are dominating. Look at Morek. Their economic strength is more than the next 2 realms combined, their military strength is 65% greater than the next biggest military, and they have consistently had the lowest density rate on Dwilight, not just recently, only now to the point of absurdity.
Morek is large, not dominating. Nobody with a minimum of a backbone has EVER attempted to expand into them. Even when Springdale existed, pretty sure they didn't initiate any of the hostilities that occured. Some tiny realms tried their luck and got crushed, but that result was hardly of any surprise.
Morek is actually an example to the opposite of what you try to claim. First of all, economic strength found on the statistics page, as far as I'm aware, does not account for estate efficiency. Secondly, military strength is equally misleading, as it includes militia, of which Morek overflows. Any given militia unit rarely ever sees a battle, if ever. On Morek's scale, militia payments are outright crippling. There are too few nobles to patrol all of the land, and as such large resources are spent on what is essentially a stationary defense, thereby leaving the mobile forces with crumbs to finance itself. All of that militia, though, is really mostly for rogues, because human armies would easily be able to bypass them or, thanks to overwhelming numbers, crush each regions' forces with minimal casualties. All of that militia CS that shows on the statistics page is no indicator of strength. And there is another factor that neither statistics account for: delays. It can easily take two weeks to assemble an army just to move to a border of a the realm, let alone cross it. This is an incredible weakness.
