Programming does not end with editing text files. The hand work is often done in less time.
Much harder is to keep the overview and to stay focused on a task, for example, for balancing, you need to investigate a lot, collect large amounts of information, especially information that you only get from test playing, not so much by statistics, thats the easy part. What do I need to test, to get a complete component of units work together? Do you know the numbers that you input into your text file?
So the best overview gives you the best result, and strategy games teach you to keep the overview, in contrast to fully go into a situation, that is surrounding you fully, and you get no information from outside because you are very busy inside (in your task).
Because the informatics is a huge world, sitting in a child's shoe still, you are very likely to loose yourself, to get distracted by its beauty, and you just HAVE to implement that beute panzer, even though it does not fit into the concept, is maybe the opposite, but then, its historical and you include it.
But all in all, thinking out a good idea and aiming for the right goal is much more difficult than doing the way to there.
So direction is the key. So overview is the key. Learning leadership and commanding is the key. Especially in the chaos today.
So playing RTS is exactly the one most useful thing you can do, and its also the most efficient way to learn the huge field of leadership, free, and at young age, because once you take a position, you must already know how to lead.
Many managers do not learn the field to its full spectrum of what they would need for their task. They also dont care.
Thats why the biggest of them fail, and everybody can see who that is and how they fail.
So if you want to live and have a good live, become a commander. And everything, computer games dont give you, you can complement and adapt. But simulation (= computer games) is strong. You get a system to orientate your life at. If you do it in a good way, you can be ahead of our time. Information is the key.
