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<blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 9515076" data-attributes="member: 6696971">And things get doubly interesting when system designers deftly engineer incentive structures around (i) theme/premise-driven moves, (ii) PC advancement, and/or (iii) decisions regarding currency gains for later plays/gamestate control such that they are at odds with or have an oblique relationship with the best possible play right now.That makes the calculus around the tactics, strategy, advancement, and theme/premise very complex.&nbsp; Skilled play indexes a lot-O-stuff at every moment because the best tactical play right now and the best strategic play for longterm control over gamestate trajectory or PC growth or the most interesting/thematically potent play might all be rowing in slightly different directions...maybe not fully at cross-purposes (though there may be such occasions), but slightly different directions.Obviously Torchbearer is the prime example here.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Manbearcat, post: 9515076, member: 6696971"] And things get doubly interesting when system designers deftly engineer incentive structures around (i) theme/premise-driven moves, (ii) PC advancement, and/or (iii) decisions regarding currency gains for later plays/gamestate control such that they are at odds with or have an oblique relationship with [I]the best possible play right now[/I]. That makes the calculus around the tactics, strategy, advancement, and theme/premise very complex. Skilled play indexes a [B]lot-O-stuff [/B]at every moment because the best tactical play right now and the best strategic play for longterm control over gamestate trajectory or PC growth or the most interesting/thematically potent play might all be rowing in slightly different directions...maybe not fully at cross-purposes (though there may be such occasions), but slightly different directions. Obviously Torchbearer is the prime example here. [/QUOTE]

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