u/ExplodingAtom

I find metagames fascinating, the way some games develop strategies and counter strategies over time. I also like nature, the way that evolution has created so many organisms through just survival of the fittest. Different uses for keratin, different methods of getting oxygen into the system, lots of different types of things to transport and ways of transporting them. The way society evolves over time is cool too. I love magic systems and I think it'd be really cool if one of them was emergent. I'm like halfway through making building blocks for one but idk what to do with them when I'm done.

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However, every time I try to engage with this seriously, I feel like I'd need to literally be a wizard creating alternate realities for each slightly different scenario. I don't even know if expensive computers are powerful enough to do this.

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Lots of people online suggest balance changes to popular games, but how would all of those have changed reality if they were implemented from the start? Like, if the gap between way more low tiers and high tiers

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But basically, I wanted to ask, is there SOMEHOW an inexpensive way to predict how the resulting emergent responses will be changed from precise changes?