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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ooh, I should do that game sometime, I must have spent a couple years of my life playing Civ and Total War: Empire.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's got a very steep learning curve even compared to 4x games

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah... the thing about steep learning curves is: I might as well be reading quantitative/modeling & simulation approaches to history at that point. Because eventually that could turn into contributing back to the field.