Algorithm ignores order of bonuses, so it doesn't care if good ones are early or late.Algorithm just focuses on bonuses, it ignores all events, decisions etc.Algorithm for the same reason ignores any synergies or anti-synergies between different bonuses.The game is helpfully linear, so two +10% bonuses are identical to +20% bonus, but that's not the same as being twice as good. Some bonuses are better in multiples (-10% galley cost is weak, but -100% galley cost is pure exploit territory), some are weaker in multiples (like you really need that 6th missionary most of the time), the algorithm just tries to estimate how much value would an extra one have for a typical country. It tries to estimate how good +1 of some bonus would be, and makes linear extrapolation from there. Assumptions used to calculate point values are based on a typical country, at typical point in the game - maybe extra colonists wouldn't be much use for you as Ulm and maybe you really value galley combat strength over everything else as 1444 Byzantium, but ranking merely expresses how good those bonuses would be on average.The ranking has serious limitations, which are completely unavoidable: Algorithm has simple models of income, spending, military power, envoy use, monarch point budget and so on, and given such assumptions vast number of bonuses can be reduced to just a few. The game has huge number of bonuses, and they're reduced to other bonuses based on some sensible assumptions. As dip/adm are far more valuable than mil, they're both worth 1.1 and mil is just 0.8, so they average to correct value. Value of +1 monarch point per month is 1, and that's the unit everything is expressed in. I've written it a while ago, but I'm posting it now, as next patch will mess with the values. The algorithm not only gives meaningful relative rankings, it gives meaningful absolute values - expressed in monarch points. I have no intention of joining this making stuff up contest, so instead here's a ranking that's as close to correct as it's possible to get.
People just love to discuss EU4 idea groups, and to be honest almost everything they say is completely wrong.
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