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As a power gamer, that would make me go insane.
If you aren't playing EU4 with a spreadsheet accompanying you then you are playing wrong :rolleyes:
 
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Mind posting an example of your spreadsheets?
Here's my coptomans spreadsheet.
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Currently working on the one for my next campaign.

I disagree strongly with this, and it's one of my biggest problems with Paradox games. At a certain point, all pretense of historical accuracy or simulation disappears and it becomes a game of stacking modifiers and math. Maybe that appeals to some, but these games are meant to simulate a historical time period, and huge meta and gameyness destroys that illusion.
Well all of the games, ever since EU3(when I got on the wagon) has always in essence of its core been "Use your modifiers against other people's modifiers to gain more modifiers"
At least that's how I look at it. I still role play and subconsciously create stories for events in the game that fits the environment around it. Like my favorite campaign in EU3 where I had the Great Swedish Empire spanning the northern hemisphere defending the oppressed Lutheran German states against the vile alliance of the Catholic French and Moslem Turks. Modifiers is the mechanic that make things work in the game at all and doing anything interesting, modifiers themselves don't remove plausible historicity in itself. Unless you think only way to properly represent historicity is by individually simulating every farmer of a county, these things will be abstracted into modifiers.
 
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As a power gamer, that would make me go insane.
If you aren't playing EU4 with a spreadsheet accompanying you then you are playing wrong :rolleyes:

I dont..
 
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My spreadsheet for Daimyo's but it is still incomplete (haven't done the national values yet and morale will be higher)

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Aye, I guess so - the issue is MP. In SP, I'm sure a lot of players would happily not look at the files

I wouldn't.
Though then again I also broke Rome Total War by having a maxed out Spartan (only one left in the regiment) win entire battles for me. Yes not kidding, he would make armies of 2k sizes route upon him charging against them....
 
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