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Dawn of DiscoveryvsThey Are Billions

Dawn of Discovery leans Optimization (Pure Optimization); They Are Billions leans Optimization (Pure Optimization).

EXECUTION2 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION9 /10
Dawn of DiscoveryThey Are Billions

Axis by axis

Execution2 vs 3

They Are Billions leans harder on execution: some pause-based defense placement

Reads1 vs 1

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 3

They Are Billions leans harder on variance: map gen, swarm timing

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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They Are Billions