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Originally Posted by LuftWolf
Well, of course, I'm simply an "amateur tinkerer" as someone said... but regarding DW, this is one interpretation.
But I always find it interesting to hear repeatly how limited DW is, from people who know not very much about it.
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There's nothing necessarily amateurish to what you do. As I've said before, we frequently run into parallel issues in professional wargames. They're frequently quite similar. I think it's fascinating to watch.
I didn't argue there that DW was limited, although sometimes it is. There's stuff that just isn't in there, for whatever reason. That's not necessarily a bad thing, though. I'm sure that if you asked everyone here what their wish list included, it'd be something different. I really like DW.
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DW is designed so that individual missions have specific databases and doctrines assigned to it. As a professional, if you used those tools to their full extent, your ability to use the sim would be significantly improved.
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That's neat. Being able to modify the database is absolutely essential if you were to use DW as an analysis tool. I can do that. As it stands, though, I don't really care to use DW as an analysis tool. I have better things available, anyway. For me, it's a way to go home and play, "I'm the captain," for the evening. I don't think my ability to use the sim is all that poor, either. Although, the missions I most enjoy probably require a lot less in terms of doctrine language and scripting than most people's. I'm a big fan of simplicity.