Statistics

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EU provides quite a number of statistic tools to track your performance as compared to other nations. However, most of this statistics shows your performance only as compared to other majors, provides overall ranking only based on Victory Points earned, and seems to be overly concentrated on absolute numbers (ie total number of land forces etc).

I personally think that it would be nice to also have a number of Civ-like rankings based on some modern "relative" "real life" criteria like GDP per capita, birth rate etc - this should add some flavor to the game.

 

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The problem is that most of this was relatively constant and unimprotant during that period. GDP is practically irrlevant if your people have a self-sufficient economy, which was the case in 15th and also 16th century at least.
Birth rate also didnt change much until about second industrial revolution, when it started to drop dramaticaly.
But I agree that something could be included, but someting other than theese two. The size of the imperial palace, maybe?

McHrozni

 

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Note that at the time economics were not as developed as now. No monarch could know the GDP of his nation, even the inflation % would not have been known. The people would only see the prices soar. I would not like to see many modern economics concepts added to the game as if people of the time knew them (the player would see that now their cannons cost twice they costed before and figure it out)