Can there ever be too many decisions?
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Can there ever be too many decisions? Certainly. Just about any game has to have a tradeoff between playability and management or even micromanagement. IMHO Paradox has struck a very good balance throughout the EU series so far.
To sharpen your question, I would ask "Can there ever be too many strategic decisions?" On this point it is clear that that is exactly what Paradox's design philosophy is: to present hard strategic choices for the player. Johan has said as much in multiple DDs already. We can be confident that he and all of Paradox will make good on his promise.
To sharpen your question, I would ask "Can there ever be too many strategic decisions?" On this point it is clear that that is exactly what Paradox's design philosophy is: to present hard strategic choices for the player. Johan has said as much in multiple DDs already. We can be confident that he and all of Paradox will make good on his promise.
I think that the OP was referring to decisions as the game mechanic, not strategic decisions. I could be wrong, though.
Hear! Hear!
To me decisions are a way of giving control back to players, where EU2 just had events which gave players decisions only at random times decisions were one of the best EU3 features (just an underused one with an annoying interface quirk - which ended in decisions only appearing if they were no-brainers).
Yes - when the UI cannot handle it (missing text, clipping issues, problems with scrolling etc.) or when you have to memorise 15096516 decisions in order to play efficiently.