Just a thought.... Gold sink idea.

[Dragoon14th 12]

So i was thinking instead of raising the cap of population of clans.     Why not put on a very high gold cost , Maybe 3,000 g at start, with a 24hrs cooldown it give 5 population expansion And each new upgrade multiplies the cost required by a factor of 4.  And to purchase these upgrade you must travel to a freeport.  so mega tribes would have to work toward a goal to increase pop size rather then zerg flood from day 1.   and of course the limit would be 25 extra pop in additional to the base population.   

Edited May 19, 2019 by Dragoon14th

[boomervoncannon 1,541]

Seems like a useful suggestion at first blush. Would need testing and tweaking for sure but conceptually an approach worth exploring imo.