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Thu, 04 June 2020 12:13

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magic9mushroom wrote on Thu, 04 June 2020 09:18

And as I keep specifying, a conditional no-brainer is not really a balance problem. If every possible combination of choices (as opposed to just every choice) were perfectly balanced against each other then there would literally be no skill in race design. NRSE is better for HE than for anyone else. CE is better for IT than it is for anyone else. OBRM is better for wide hab races than for narrow-hab races. TT is better for CA than it is for anyone else. HP econ is worse for IS than for anyone else. Con cheap is better for AR than for anyone else. Exploiting synergies is skill.

OBRM should probably be somewhere between 0 and -20.

Our perspectives are different. I see a wide range between "perfectly balanced" and "no brainer". Any no brainer decision isn't really a "skill in race design" is it? Conditional or not, if it's a decision that you're an idiot not to take, there's not a lot of skill, just knowledge. You're just crushing the newb who doesn't know enough to know the clearly obvious choice. So for me, any choice that's CLEARLY not actually a choice is a balance problem. I think the most obvious example of that is NAS: provides JoaT 95 points for, effectively, free along with doubling normal scanning range. Any decision that's a "you must choose this" for me is a balance problem in a design tool.

I think of it another way - I like variation in race design and game play. So a balanced game means encouraging different choices, so it's not just "PRT and a default subset of LRTs". The larger the potential decision tree the better. And the game is more interesting (to me) if the races are all reasonably balanced, so the skill is more in play than design.

Your opinion on OBRM noted! Interesting that it's also a 95 point bonus (yes, keeping in mind sliding values for number chosen) which is the same as NAS.

rick

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		My Stars! Epiphany. By: platon79 on Sun, 03 May 2020 09:19
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: ricks03 on Sun, 03 May 2020 11:52
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: ricks03 on Sun, 03 May 2020 12:18
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: magic9mushroom on Mon, 04 May 2020 01:25
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: ricks03 on Mon, 04 May 2020 02:07
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		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: raptor on Mon, 04 May 2020 10:54
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: ricks03 on Mon, 04 May 2020 11:14
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: ricks03 on Tue, 05 May 2020 02:46
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: platon79 on Sun, 03 May 2020 14:48
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: ricks03 on Tue, 05 May 2020 10:24
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: magic9mushroom on Sun, 03 May 2020 13:24
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		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: magic9mushroom on Tue, 05 May 2020 08:48
		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: ricks03 on Tue, 05 May 2020 10:31
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		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: ricks03 on Tue, 05 May 2020 11:32
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		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: platon79 on Sat, 09 May 2020 05:32
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		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: ricks03 on Sat, 09 May 2020 23:13
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		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: magic9mushroom on Sat, 09 May 2020 22:05
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		Re: My Stars! Epiphany. By: ricks03 on Thu, 04 June 2020 12:13
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