If you change the amount of these tasks relative to one another, then you change the nature of the game completely. Within this, we want to make sure that there is the right mix of smaller tasks such as movement, fighting, hero management, building, resource collection, etc. Then there is what I term "task balancing", where we make sure that the player is performing a good mixture of tasks - too many tasks and it gets confusing, too few and it gets boring.
There is obviously the type of balance that makes certain that all sides are on an equal footing - "play balance" - and that's a very big chunk of the balance pie for us, since our game contains 16 completely different playable races, 28 classes of hero and over 130 spells. There are many types of balance within a strategy game - more than you might think of at first glance. Game Balance Warlords Battlecry III is currently well into beta and coming along very nicely, so it is naturally the time in the project when at least 50 percent of our effort goes into game balance.
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