is it even humanly possible to find the global maximium with all the parameters involved?
probably not, but fixing the obvious stuff outside the scope would help greatly getting nearer
I voted disagree because the Balance Mod was beginning to get too complicated.
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In conclusion:
fix obious stuff first
You are kinda contradicting yourself there. Additionally one might even say that the penal stuff happenend because they tried to fix problems outside the scope with parameters within the scope