(article: https://www.eurogamer.net/civilization-7-pairs-seismic-changes-with-a-lovably-familiar-formula)
like. I like simulation for simulation's sake! I do. But if none of it's exposed to the player, a LOT of times you end up with a black box that is indistinguishable from a random number generator. This is especially common with people trying to make social simulations. If you're doing something neat, you have to surface it, or consider whether it's worth doing at all.
