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Big Pharma cover artvsSid Meier's Civilization III cover art

Big PharmavsSid Meier's Civilization III

Big Pharma leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); Sid Meier's Civilization III leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION9 /10
Big PharmaSid Meier's Civilization III

Axis by axis

Execution1 vs 0

Big Pharma leans harder on execution: Conveyor placement is unhurried; no physical test.

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance3 vs 4

Sid Meier's Civilization III leans harder on variance: Random maps, resources and combat rolls matter early

Optimization9 vs 9

Even - both lean on optimization about the same.

Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

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