When the cabal is strong, I think higher standards should be required.

It's one thing I found frustrating when getting steamrolled by huge fortress gangs... that they were always in power, and yet largely tatted, multiple virtued etc.

I'm much less bothered by that if it is the underdogs getting the nice stuff.

I was thinking that the tatting/virtue side of things feels much more balanced now than it felt about 6 months ago.