Well, I'm not saying you have to be able to make much money off of raiding poor villagers, but actually losing money would break the system. No one for any reason would pillage anyone, unless they either weren't aware they were going to lose money doing it or just wanted to troll their neighbor. ^^ I mean, looking at it logically how much money would there be for the taking at the end of the day, anyway? One hundred spearmen using my system could loot six hundred bullis, and five hundred could loot three thousand, but you're only keeping half of that after expenses, risking death, not faming or contributing back home, pissing off an enemy who will likely be out for revenge afterwards and, really, there's only so much to actually be looted. What is it, half of the population's taxes over the year as a cap? Three thousand bullis or so max? Not exactly a startling amount of money, at that point it's just as much raiding for the sake of hurting your opponent as for anything else.