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Old 10-01-2012, 10:11 PM   #5
Oliver
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Re: Clash of Kings: Niche vs. Niche

I like to analyze these things from an economic perspective, and with that in mind, there's one thing that is most important: pursuing any individual specialization should get you equal marginal utility. It isn't necessary for someone specializing in social skills to be just as physically powerful as a combative character, but instead, they must be equally useful. Devoting X more resources to a given specialization should, all things equal, give you just as much benefit (in a broad sense) as devoting a proportional amount of resources to another given specialization.

If marginal utility between options is not equal, it becomes irrational to pursue anything but the highest utility specialization. It's almost impossible to really make every specialization truly "equal" in utility to others, but that's the idea that I think should be aimed for.
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