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StarfieldvsTarisland

Starfield leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery); Tarisland leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS1 /10VARIANCE3 /10OPTIMIZATION7 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 5

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads1 vs 2

Tarisland leans harder on reads: PvP battlefields present a real but secondary reads layer

Variance3 vs 3

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization7 vs 7

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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