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.
Actually, The term has significant usage in Warhammer:40k, Though it usually said when a player build an army specifically targetted to defeating a single opponent army. (lots of rapidfire vs an unarmored horde, etc) --130.89.187.192 (talk) 14:08, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
The term Min-Max has been around and used in common gamer parlance for a lot, lot longer than this article seems to think. It was not 'made popular' by the mentioned Webcomic, because it has been in use for much longer. In fact, I would say that the character was instead based off the term itself, not the other way around. Theroguex 19:19, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
