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Originally Posted by MathBandit

That's exactly how I - and several content creators I follow - do play the game, in GM-only sim mode with maybe the occasional game played out manually, and it seems to run fine for all of us. As I said, if you decide to duck through the hole in the fence that the AI doesn't know about then complain that the AI can't keep up with you, that's on you. You'd get a more challenging *and* more realistic experience if you were playing the game in good faith rather than going out of your way to find exploits then complaining about those out-of-the-way exploits when you do.

One of the best strategy games ever created, Civ4, has an AI that doesn't properly guard against early game Worker Snipes from peaceful neighbours, meaning the Human can basically always grab a free Worker or two, and even a straight Axe Rush is often too much for the AI to handle. Does that mean the game is broken? No. It means that if you want to cheese the AI you certainly can, but if you're interested in a fun and challenging game, you avoid taking advantage of the known exploits instead of cheesing the AI then whining that the game is broken and too easy.

Pokémon, one of the most popular video game franchises of all time, is aimed and marketed largely at children and so the base story mode is comically easy to most players. Does that mean the game is broken and unplayable? Not at all. Entire communities have cropped up and come up with their own self-imposed challenge restrictions to make the game harder and more enjoyable even to experienced players.

If you walk into your doctor's office and tell them you have no health issues affecting your health or life, but that you've noticed that if you take three fingers on your right hand and poke your left knee at a very specific angle it causes a sharp pain to your knee, but that your knee is otherwise totally fine and any normal usage isn't affected, the doctor likely won't recommend an expensive and complicated surgery - they will tell you to stop poking your knee at that angle with your fingers if you want to avoid the sharp pain.

Good points. [emoji106]

One way I make the game more challenging is to put trade difficulty to its highest settings.


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