barbarians...

[cribgod]

is there any way to reduce the number of these feinds relesed or alter the chance they will pillage my hard earned improvements?
i like playing with barbs on, (forget about raging barbs jeeeez) but they spawn faster than you can build units to rub em out, and seems the first thing they go for is iron/copper mines or the roads that supply your citys with these resorces.
id like to see a mod (like the option that was ALREADY in civ 3) to kind of reduce but not eleminate the amount of barbs spawned, having to have 10 workers for 3 citys just to rebuild pillaged improvements is alittle unreasonable.

[MattPilot]

Maybe you are handling the barb threat wrong.

Instead of attacking them, let them attack you on favorable terrain.

Barbs naturally attack you, regardless of the odds. Just move one of your units on a hill or forest next to them. This way your unit survives to kill more barbs.

[dearmad]

There are multipliers in the handicap.xml file (can't remeber the full name) and in the gamespeed.xml file.