Please reconsider keeping Kingsmarch.

Welp, OP - this was pretty much what I expected.

Kingsmarch is clearly not mandatory, and its rewards have been brought in line with other mechanics.

The 50k minimum shipments also curb the level 1 shipper scarab lotto trick.

I will also note that the most effecient way to run your farm now is to run maps with the Kingsmarch nodes while your farmers/miners are idle. Niko and Harvest provide the bulk of your trade goods.

I'm about 50 million into buying workers, and I almost have a set cheap enough to consider letting them work in the background. You have to churn through a lot of workers to get them cost-effective. Which seems fair.

Overall I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out, and the "OMG IT'S AN IDLE GAME" theories are pretty much blasted out of the water.