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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 8675605" data-attributes="member: 7025508">Right. So you're critiquing the accuracy of the simulation. The specific issue of granularity you note is inherent in basically any skill system, and something the writer needs to tackle when writing such.I think &quot;general athleticism&quot; is rather sensible thing to measure in a game that doesn't specifically concentrate on athletes. Real athletes of course are better in some areas than in others, but almost all of them are better in all of them than me! There certainly is a lot of cross compatibility in competence across different facets.The same applies to any skill. Are people really equally knowledgeable all facets of history? Cannot I be specialised in Cormyrian history? Or even more narrowly to some specific aspect of Cormyrian history? And you of course could model this, giving characters &quot;expertise&quot; to just specific application of the skill. I'm pretty sure there are some features like that, but IMO, such accuracy is rarely necessary. I give such to NPC specialists sometimes though.But if you don't think this is simulation, (and same question for everyone really) what you think would be simulation then?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crimson Longinus, post: 8675605, member: 7025508"] Right. So you're critiquing the accuracy of the simulation. The specific issue of granularity you note is inherent in basically any skill system, and something the writer needs to tackle when writing such. I think "general athleticism" is rather sensible thing to measure in a game that doesn't specifically concentrate on athletes. Real athletes of course are better in some areas than in others, but almost all of them are better in all of them than me! There certainly is a lot of cross compatibility in competence across different facets. The same applies to any skill. Are people really equally knowledgeable all facets of history? Cannot I be specialised in Cormyrian history? Or even more narrowly to some specific aspect of Cormyrian history? And you of course could model this, giving characters "expertise" to just specific application of the skill. I'm pretty sure there are some features like that, but IMO, such accuracy is rarely necessary. I give such to NPC specialists sometimes though. But if you don't think this is simulation, (and same question for everyone really) what you think would be simulation then? [/QUOTE]

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