The research infrastructure behind Vienna 1814: Waltz of Nations has entered its third generation.

It started with a single spreadsheet. When that hit fifty sheets, it moved to a multi-file architecture. Now even that has been outgrown — everything lives in a properly connected research system.

Not a productivity post. Each step happened because the game asked for it. The material is too entangled to live in flat files.

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