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<blockquote data-quote="Bawylie" data-source="post: 7015648" data-attributes="member: 6776133">Alright look. When you set out to make a decision for yourself, you typically want the most favorable outcome you can get (or the one with the fewest costs). So you go through life necessarily deciding what works for you and what does not work for you. For instance, I was taught to mow my lawn in straight vertical lines and then again in straight horizontal lines. Eventually I switched over to overlapping horizontal lines only. I used to buy gas only when on E, but now I always buy it Wednesday after work. You develop and refine habits and routines that lead you toward the highest levels of satisfaction or best yields, or convenience, or whatever. Then someone comes along and says &quot;So you believe you should only buy gas on wednesdays?!? Like Thursday's gas is inferior? You're an insulting cultist!&quot; So what can you do? I do the things I do because I believe them to be the best things for me to do. I don't see how I can reasonably be expected to choose crappier outcomes or lower levels of satisfaction just to avoid the accusation of &quot;one-true-wayism.&quot; So if someone comes along and says &quot;Hey I've got this problem in my game and I'd like some input on how it can be improved,&quot; and I've got some perspective on how it can be improved, should I not share it? For the sake of simulationists? For the sake of avoiding the idea that one method of doing things might yield better results than another way of doing things? For pete's sake, the OP is basically asking for anyone to weigh in on what they think! &quot;But not you, Brad. You're convinced your idea is good. Only people who don't think they have good ideas can present those ideas without insult.&quot;A big, No Thank You, Sir to that, too. -Brad</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bawylie, post: 7015648, member: 6776133"] Alright look. When you set out to make a decision for yourself, you typically want the most favorable outcome you can get (or the one with the fewest costs). So you go through life necessarily deciding what works for you and what does not work for you. For instance, I was taught to mow my lawn in straight vertical lines and then again in straight horizontal lines. Eventually I switched over to overlapping horizontal lines only. I used to buy gas only when on E, but now I always buy it Wednesday after work. You develop and refine habits and routines that lead you toward the highest levels of satisfaction or best yields, or convenience, or whatever. Then someone comes along and says "So you believe you should only buy gas on wednesdays?!? Like Thursday's gas is inferior? You're an insulting cultist!" So what can you do? I do the things I do because I believe them to be the best things for me to do. I don't see how I can reasonably be expected to choose crappier outcomes or lower levels of satisfaction just to avoid the accusation of "one-true-wayism." So if someone comes along and says "Hey I've got this problem in my game and I'd like some input on how it can be improved," and I've got some perspective on how it can be improved, should I not share it? For the sake of simulationists? For the sake of avoiding the idea that one method of doing things might yield better results than another way of doing things? For pete's sake, the OP is basically asking for anyone to weigh in on what they think! "But not you, Brad. You're convinced your idea is good. Only people who don't think they have good ideas can present those ideas without insult." A big, No Thank You, Sir to that, too. -Brad [/QUOTE]

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