The thing is, I have found that when one gets a bigger army-navy mission, then if you immediately check the ledger you can see that in fact at the moment you really are only a few thousand troops behind.Thus if you insta-build 10 infantry regiments (parallel) then in 90%+ of the cases you accomplish the mission in two months, and often by a margin. However, when the mission is against a blob one should be curious about it - and ledger checks always showed it to me that yes, in fact your army is just shy of theirs. However, that is because theirs is at a low - and unless one acts quickly enough, they rebuild it and then the mission really becomes impossible. Check the ledger when you get such a mission!
Hey, we're talking about what we want and don't want in the vanilla. As you yourself stated, this is something prevalent in mods - so this complaint is totally valid, merely misplaced. Tell it to the modders, not the developers - the modders are the ones responsible, who shall be concerned.
Part of the problem is that the default setting is 'generate advisor from cultural tradition', not 'generate advisor only by event'. The latter is an option, and since most events give only 1-3 star advisors this would give a point to these missions. However, on the default setting I can create better advisors with much less hassle, just trade a lot and that's all.
On the contrary, I do not want to see this.
Well, classical languages as Latin or Old Greek are very useful things. Some people just too ignorant to admit this.
