Вот, я в теме рядом давал ссылку на Рейнольдса... моим слова-то ты никогда не вериш:

Сообщение от Aku_Aku
General Game Design: Strategy Games
Strategy games are extremely complex to design—although the individual
components look deceptively simple, having a lot of "simple" moving parts makes
for a very complex overall balancing task. It's easy to look at a strategy game
and say, "I could make this better; I'd add this and this and this," but very
hard to actually integrate lots of new parts into a game system without breaking
the things that were already fun.

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