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