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> I don't understand why you want to find these things out by reading the code instead of by playing the game.
> Surely the whole *point* of the game is to get a feel for how the world works. If you don't want to do that
> by gradual osmosis, you could certainly do it by controlled experimentation within the world.
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I've been playing the game for 10 years on and off, and have a good feel for how the world works, but I'd still love to *know* how the world works, which is a very different thing.
There are certainly some things you could work out by controlled experimentation, but for even quite trivial questions you could expend a lot of effort still not be certain about the result, or at least be uncertain about the comprehensiveness of the result. There are so many random factors and hidden factors that any information you get from repeated experiment might be wrong should one of the factors be different. Even where it would work, it would frankly be a pretty dull experience to constantly save and reload.
For some people it might destroy the magic to see the numbers and formulae behind the game, but not me.