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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 4987719" data-attributes="member: 2011">Actually, I think fairly serious levels of complexity can be modeled and they can give people a real good idea of how the math really works.The problem is coming up with the time to do that. It's a major effort to program things such as each PC's actions being a choice based on weighing factors. For example, choice on which foe(s) to target, choice on which power to use (with factors for not using Daily powers or Daily item powers unless the gain seems significant), choice on which square to move to, choice on which PC to heal, etc. All of these could be given weights and a system could be devised. It wouldn't be perfect, but it could be done.People do this with things such as chess programs all of the time. But, they take a long time to develop.With regard to different builds, a developer could create 3 different builds for each class (54 PCs? all the way to level 30), then create all of the possible combinations of (for example) two strikers, one defender, one leader, and one controller. But, this would multiply the number of runs by ~250,000 for any given scenario test, so it would take some serious computing power. The number climbs real quick, but a reasonable simulation could be done. It's just hard and time consuming to do.No simulation will handle everything, but such a simulation at certain levels will indicate things such as how many rounds it took for the various "teams" to either succeed or die.Tests could even be run with other factors. One random Daily power used and 20% healing surges gone for each PC, two random Daily powers used and 40% healing surges gone for each PC, etc.</blockquote>

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