Interesting! I don't know the game, but I'd like to try it.
An economist's perspective: if you want to make an analytically valid choice between an arbitrary number of alternatives, you can convert all the resources and values to some single type of unit. For example, utility. This can make your priorities explicit to yourself. When you don't know how a certain action will affect a given resource, you can articulate this uncertainty using a probability distribution over possible outcomes. If you wanted to teach a computer to play seven wonders, I think this is a good place to start.
You definitely should try the game, if you get a chance.
I've practiced single unit conversation in several set ups. It works very well when you are trying to analyse something with a lot of time on your hands and when you have the flexibility to course correct once commiting to a decision, since the artificial nature of the conversation to a single unit is likely to crumble when more details become apparent down the line.
A great example would be a quarterly or yearly roadmap, where you have to compare competing scenarios that position you differently on different strategic goals with relatively equal importance.
Interesting! I don't know the game, but I'd like to try it.
An economist's perspective: if you want to make an analytically valid choice between an arbitrary number of alternatives, you can convert all the resources and values to some single type of unit. For example, utility. This can make your priorities explicit to yourself. When you don't know how a certain action will affect a given resource, you can articulate this uncertainty using a probability distribution over possible outcomes. If you wanted to teach a computer to play seven wonders, I think this is a good place to start.
You definitely should try the game, if you get a chance.
I've practiced single unit conversation in several set ups. It works very well when you are trying to analyse something with a lot of time on your hands and when you have the flexibility to course correct once commiting to a decision, since the artificial nature of the conversation to a single unit is likely to crumble when more details become apparent down the line.
A great example would be a quarterly or yearly roadmap, where you have to compare competing scenarios that position you differently on different strategic goals with relatively equal importance.