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rather than micromanage the fight, you should build redundancy into the system. High level solutions to compensate for low level shortcomings. And the more you do so, the more gratifying it becomes. A prompt asking for your permission for a patrol fleet to investigate a dangerous area is honestly much more fun than panning around the map looking for it yourself.
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This is what leadership is, sometimes. It’s not coming up with all the ideas yourself, it’s evaluating them. The very first thing I wrote for RPS was about King Of Dragon Pass and the fantasy of people coming to you asking for decisions. DW2 is about that, too. You can control everything, but outside the early stages, you shouldn’t. It’s better to prioritise, to focus on what you want to set up right now. Perhaps it’s that new colony in the nebula. Perhaps it’s time you reorganised your home fleet composition. Perhaps you’re concerned the Boskara will invade, so it’s time to fix your sensor network.
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It’s better to be the roving administrator who goes from office to office as needed, not the dictator who refuses to let anything happen unless it was their idea. And that’s actually a really interesting solution to that longstanding problem of the 4X, where the fun early game morphs into a plodding, inexorable chore of build orders and lacing up every soldier’s boots. Why should you deal with that? You can, but it’s better to supervise a little, then step back. The little pioneer must become a governor, then an emperor, and must leave pioneerish things behind.
✏️ Contextualizing this with how pop culture media leads us towards taking things into our own hands all the time.
- The Hero’s Journey
- FPS Most games’ approach is for you to be the one who takes action, to do things, to get shit done. This can work sometimes, but other times it’s the wrong framework. Imagine being a “take things into your own hands” person when it comes to running an organization, a planet, an empire, a team above 5 people? That’s called being a micromanager at best and a dictator at worst. 🔗 View Highlight