I agree with the scope of your experience RR.
This is what happens when games become too big and try to please everyone. As a result each aspect of the game will please some people some of the time, but none of the aspects (except in this case detailed strategy players) has depth enough to keep everyone interested. PS gets credit for trying to make the strategy AI strong enough you can make a few key decisions and leave most of the detail work to the computer. The tempation to tweak what is seen as inefficiencies in the default AI control temps us to try and get the edge on the AI by intervening. This more often than not causes chaos until vast experience is obtained. I've never seen a tactical level done this good (considering it's only 1/3 of the game) but the 1st person simulation level is really poor.
This brings up the point that bothers me in all the vast wish list features requested. If ALL of them were implemented we would have Pacific Storm. SHIV is what it is because the devs like to make this kind of sim with their skill set. It was made to satisfy a particular simming interest that matches theirs. Matches mine and many others here. Those who say they hate the game because it doesn't have their pet feature(s) don't bother me at all. If it wasn't the game I wanted, I wouldn't have bought it either. With each patch, I play it more hours.
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