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Three Moves Ahead 589: 'Board Game' vs 'Simulation'-style Strategy Games

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The Limits of Optimization in Simulation Games

When I'll play like let's say Endless legend like I'll be like all right. Like i'm building this character and if I build this character in this way I get This outcome Most of the time, you know, there's some randomization But those are the kinds of things like when i'm playing sieve i'm building the cities To do a thing in order to reach Any number of conditions. And even in some like simulation style games like city skylines like i'm building towards a thing still like in terms of optimization and mechanics. Not being able to Control and optimize on a mechanical basis is sometimes the the barrier for me Yeah,

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