> I'm curious on your take on the necessity for political leaders to master the "exterminate" prong of the 4X?
Civilization, for one, has scientific and cultural victory conditions, and not just military. Stellaris takes economic and technological factors into account.
But the main skill in being able to "win" is the ability to balance various needs of the population: economic, technology, happiness, crime, foreign threats. And it may not even be able "winning" but about how you play the game: all potential candidates could be given several randomly generated seed, and their gameplay is available for evaluation. Some seeds could be militaristic species, others pacifists; some capitalists, some collectivists; etc, with the expectation that you don't (necessarily) play how you'd like the society to be, but role play as the species at it is: so you may be a pacifist, but you have to play as a militarist if that's what the species is in-game.
If you can't wrap your head around the interconnectedness of resources in something as simple as a video game, what chance do you have IRL?
Civilization, for one, has scientific and cultural victory conditions, and not just military. Stellaris takes economic and technological factors into account.
But the main skill in being able to "win" is the ability to balance various needs of the population: economic, technology, happiness, crime, foreign threats. And it may not even be able "winning" but about how you play the game: all potential candidates could be given several randomly generated seed, and their gameplay is available for evaluation. Some seeds could be militaristic species, others pacifists; some capitalists, some collectivists; etc, with the expectation that you don't (necessarily) play how you'd like the society to be, but role play as the species at it is: so you may be a pacifist, but you have to play as a militarist if that's what the species is in-game.
If you can't wrap your head around the interconnectedness of resources in something as simple as a video game, what chance do you have IRL?
Further, this can be a filter and not the filter.