![]() It's fun because you have limited tools and need to build up to greater and more powerful tools or to solve your immediate problem with what you have. Factorio isn't fun because you can build everything you want instantly with no cost to doing so. I argue that giving players a variety of limited tools makes for better gameplay and that games have shown that giving the player challenges based on those limited tools makes for more fun. Which boils down to the whole concept of choice. Playing Aztec feels different then playing HRE. Not nessesarily well implemented for the most part but it is expansive. Compare this with EU4 where there's significant diversity and variants across the world. This is also mirrored in the CK2 vs CK3 cultures and religions comparisons, as well as CK3 government types. Nor do you have the diversity of factions with diverse units. Age of Wonders 4 has gone the same path, no longer do you have Nimue or Nekron or Creepy spider lady. In contrast Beyond earth didn't have the unit diversity nor did it have the faction diversity. Playing Miriam felt significantly different than Dierdra. In Alpha Centauri the unit diversity wasn't there but the factions had such distinct traits and characterizations to them that the gameplay was divergent and memorable. In AoW 2 you had factions with strengths and weaknesses, unique rosters of units, unique selections of spells and a campaign pitting you with harder scenarios and more complex challenges to solve. This can be easily visualized by looking at Alpha Centauri, or Age of Wonders 2, and comparing them with Beyond Earth and Age of Wonders 4. That problem is requiring the player to make up all of the background to the game they're playing and making a tactical game into a sandbox game. Howdy there, so there's a pretty big problem that's been happening on repeat in recent paradox games as well as Age of Wonders 3, Age of Wonders Planetfall, and very obviously Age of Wonders 4. ![]()
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