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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sanguinemetaldawn" data-source="post: 3695824" data-attributes="member: 23390">Yeah, rules mastery.Do you ever find yourself automatically calculating odds of success and predicting probabilities of outcomes too, like C3-PO in the asteroid field?I am an analytical person, so much so that I find myself doing it automatically.  It drives some of my friends nuts.Anyway, its to be expected as a game designer.  What you need is simple: a new game.Any fun game, as long as it has different mechanics and a different setting.  What has happened is you now have gained a learned, ingrained pattern and habit of analytic thinking about the game, due to massive immersion, and you won't be able suppress this.Well, I suppose you could retrain yourself out of this thinking in a manner corresponding to how you trained yourself into it, but how realistic is that really, if you are playing it?This is why I dislike rules mastery do a large degree.  It is important for designers, but can absolutely destroy the fun of the game.  Its no longer a matter of mystery and excitement.  Its a matter of decisions and probabilities.  Creative problem solving can mitigate this to a degree, but not fundamentally change it.Best wishes.</blockquote>