Talk:Min-maxing

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Min/Maxing is a specific term related to role playing games. While min/maxing is of huge significance in most RPGs, I have never come across the term in relation to strategy games. The term certainly originated in an RPG context where it is in wide and current use, I am unsure as to whether anyone bar user 203.79.93.231 uses it in a strategy gaming context. It would be possible to tack all sorts of similar addenda to this article, but I believe the effect would be negative, consider the example:

A similar phenomenon exists in supermarket shopping, where the Min-Maxer, during shopping selection (the analogue of character creation) spends the absolute minimum on the basic, commodity items, e.g. by buying value milk (the Min) in order to gain the highest possible proportion of expensive, powerful cheeses (the Max). This technique often leads to extremely unbalanced refrigerator contents, so practicers are rather unpopular dinner party hosts.

I propose that the paragraph "A similar phenomenon exists in strategy games, where the Min-Maxer, during army selection (the analogue of character creation) takes the absolute minimum of the basic, compulsary forces (the Min) in order to gain the highest possible proportion of specialized, powerful troops (the Max). This technique often leads to extremely unbalanced and thus boring forces, so practicers are rather unpopular foes." be struck from the article since it has no relevance to role-playing game terms.