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Message: <blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 8284048" data-attributes="member: 71699">Typically in games, skilled play is that play that brings you nearer the win condition (or pushes your opponents further away) or maximises your score. One way I have heard it put is that a utility function is defined and skilled play is play that achieves an optimal maximum under that function.One objection I've read a few times in this thread might boil down to asserting that RPG doesn't contain a win condition, i.e. there is no agreed utility function to achieve an optimal maximum on.Each of those examples above, however, seem to me to have meaning only if we're assuming - contrary to the objection - that there actually is an agreed win con or score to maximise. Do you see what I mean? What do you think? Have you also got win cons or score assumptions that need to be attached to each of your cases?</blockquote>