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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Finite amount limits future purchases. Also, certain investments might have prerequisites before they even become available. Sometimes, a game does not even show disadvantages. All of this can be referred to as shadow costs.[4]Every player desires rewards, e.g. new game content or a simple compliment. Rewards should get bigger as the playtime increases.[6] They give a player the feeling of doing something right and can enhance progress.[4] A little bit of uncertainty about rewards makes them more desirable for many players.[6][4]Colloquially speaking, solving a game refers to winning it or reaching its end. Ian Schreiber calls a game solvable if, for every situation, there is a recognizable best action.[4] Generally, it is undesirable if a game can easily be solved, since this makes decisions meaningless, and games become boring faster.[4][5]There are multiple tiers of solvability: A game might be trivial to solve, but it might also be solvable only in theory with a lot of computing effort. Even games with random elements are solvable since a best action can be found using expected values. Besides high complexity, hidden information and the influence of other human players are what makes it impossible for a human to completely solve a game.[4]Symmetry and asymmetry[edit]Symmetric games offer all players identical starting conditions and are therefore automatically fair in the above stated sense.[2][19][6][4][17] While they are easier to balance,[17][8] they still must be balanced, e.g. regarding their game elements.[4][29] Most modern games are asymmetric though, while the grade of asymmetry can vary greatly.[5] Fairness becomes even more important for those.[5]Giving each player identical resources is the simplest game balancing technique. Most competitive games feature some level of symmetry; some (such as Pong) are completely symmetric, but those in which players alternate turns (such as chess) can never achieve total symmetry as one player will always have a first-move advantage or disadvantage.Symmetry is unappealing in games because both sides can and will use any effective strategy simultaneously, or success depends on a very small advantage such as one pawn in chess. An alternative is to offer symmetry with restrictions. Players in Wizard's Quest and Catan have
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