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# Game Balance Analysis Design, analyze, and judge game balance through concrete models and player- facing outcomes. Produce actual values, tables, calculations, tuning options, or verdicts rather than a general discussion of balance theory. ## Core rules ### Select the balance target Classify the task before modeling. A request may involve one or more of: - mathematical relationships between costs, benefits, rates, and outcomes; - difficulty for an intended audience or skill band; - progression of player power, challenge, access, and reward timing; - initial conditions such as turn order, side, spawn, map, or starting stock; - viability and interaction of multiple strategies; - comparative value of objects, abilities, characters, or builds; - actual and perceived fairness. When targets conflict, state the tradeoff and prioritize the user's intended experience. Do not silently optimize one balance type at another's expense. ### Model the relevant context Attach every conclusion to an audience, mode, content set, skill band, build, time horizon, and version as relevant. Separate confirmed rules/data, calculated predictions, design assumptions, and unknowns. ### Classify option relationships Before comparing options, classify the dominant relationship: - `transitive`: broadly more benefit should carry more cost or disadvantage; - `intransitive`: value depends on the opposing choice or counter cycle; - `situational`: value depends on content, state, timing, or frequen