Simply do the reverse of your test: prove to me that gaining provinces is not useful in terms of arms, etc. More resources, especialy exterminating, means better armies, more provinces can mean better interior lines, less battle fronts, etc.
I give up, though. I guess we'll never know if it's a bug, a feature, poor programing, or just AI's state of the art.
Next time, may I suggest to CA that any re-assessment should be done on a fixed amount of turns basis with no relation to load/save. (I think that would be obvious to anyone working the problem in their mind, but I'm not a programmer.)
Back to the real job! It's been nice talking.
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