[chii]

The grind and building up of a perfect army (for the majority of the game), then wipe the map with it at the end, is only a strategy that works if you knew perfectly well what forces you'd face.

I reckon if you tried this with a competitive human player, you will almost certainly lose.

And i would imagine life is the same - if you laid out a plan and grind to get rich to enjoy it at the end, you are making the assumption that the world doesn't change under you in the mean time.

For some people, this worked, but i think increasingly, the world is changing faster and faster, and any plan that someone might make is going to crumble in the face of the "enemy".

Being adjustable on the fly, and changing plans and goals, as well as balance, is the key imho.