Quote Originally Posted by StratOcastle View Post
Essentially what I'm learning is that if you don't do math, things become obvious anyways and you can eyeball all.

I don't do math and whatever I did was relative to the environment. For instance, I just restarted and built a faery cleric. Explored. Set science to active. Built a lot of guilds.

Then I got in trouble when an undead guy grabbed acres from my waffer thin defense. I counter with a simple ambush and cast PF which lands on the first try. I'm good. I'm not sure what the math calls it ;-)
I have no idea how your random anecdote has any bearing on the virtues of using math, nor do I have any idea how this is a reply or rebuff to my post.

You successfully ambushed a province therefore math and or efficiency is not valuable Q.E.D?

Math almost certainly calls whatever you do inefficient, but who really cares? You stand for the notion you can do well enough and have fun without min maxing and this is true, but most of the people asking questions here are seeking information on becoming better at min max province management or the math behind mechanics. My post was simply poking fun at the OP specifically requesting math and receiving a bunch of what you refer to as slop in reply.