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Originally posted by JR Jansen:
OK, so you sit there for a while thinking up your strategy. You see an opening and think now the time is right. You act just to see someone comming from behind that wall you didn't see before with a flamethrower or whatever. You can't call time out then to revise your strategy. Maybe you can flee and think over another one if you can flee at all.
It's like that in all games, in an RPG you can think up a strategy, but then an enemy might suddenly know a spell that you didn't realize that he did.
Same for RTS games, your foe might have cloaked units that you didn't see.
It's like that everywhere, there might always be some factor that you hadn't counted on or just hadn't seen at all.
And it's often useless to try to change your strategy once you've been surprised by that, in all things.