The numerical balancing for a mmorpg (or diablo like arpg) is very complex

Because many equivalent values are used, for instance, one controll skill can be considered equal 100 damge. The balance sheet is not strictly balanced.

 

I did not? Nash equilibrium is a theory that players are better off not changing their strategies given others' strategies. That has nothing to do with dominant strategies. Dominant strategies imply that instead of doing 90% of anything else, that 10% is all that matters.
Here's another example: I can do a basic attack or an attack that does 50% of that damage and inflicts burn. As long as the DPS of the first basic attack exceeds adding that other attack, I have no reason to use the second ability.
This is why in WoW sometimes rotations ignore several spells and abilities. Heck the Warlock's rotation in BC was shadowbolt, shadowbolt, shadowbolt, shadowbolt... ad nauseam. Because no other attack did anything more ever.
That's what a degenerate or dominant strategy is.

You stop designing and run a simulation. Then you see what possibilities exist and which ones dominate. If you have, like in WoW, 2 or 3 competitive rotations, let's say PVE, then as long as you're satisfied, that works. However, if the player has only 1 strategy that is the absolute best, then why even bother having combat if the player has to spam the same thing over and over again.

 

You are quickly going to learn that there is nothing hongwaixuexi hates more than actually making something.

 

think big, start small, learn fast

 

You think big but you lack understanding, you haven't started small as all your game ideas are things that are typically done by entire studios, and you fail to actually learn when anyone actually tells you anything. This has happened over multiple threads.

 

It's not the truth.

 

Nash equilibrium is to find the dominant strategy.

Only one matters.

equivalent DPS. For instance, the second ability is a control skill and that can stun the enmey, and you have to calculate the potential benefit.

Using data (in an Excel) for a simulation is more easier.

 

Think data, start thread, learn nothing.

 

So what you learned last year?

 

Becoming a professional game programmer is both simultaneously fun and exhausting.

 

That's so abstract and emotional.

 

Do you have experience of RPG game programming?