[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] sdnomdE Let me rephrase my question. Suppose game A is constructed in such a way that it has a much larger skill gap than game B. Suppose someone comes along and slows down the movement in game A, and adds a bit of aim assist to it, which reduces the skill gap. Will game A now necessarily have a smaller skill gap than game B, and why? Why couldn't game A's skill gap not possibly still be a bit higher than, or the same as, game B's?[/quote]How does it not have a smaller skill gap? If you reduce the very thing that gives that game skill then you're directly reducing the skill gap. If people move slower and you add aim assist people will have a much easier time hitting another person. That means that someone who would have a much harder time hitting someone before would find it much easier while the guy who was extremely proficient at it would be finding it slightly easier. For the most part the guy extremely proficient at it would notice it more on how much easier it was for other people to kill him than he would on himself. I don't see how someone can't see how that effectively decreases the skill gap. [quote]I can't accept this without justification, at least not in a general sense. It does not seem intuitively self-evident, and it suffers from some uncomfortable implications. For instance, it suggests that the much less general ("less general" since in colloquial use it is aimed primarily with learning curve, without consideration toward things such as talent) statement of "easy to learn, hard to master" cannot be accurately applied to anything.[/quote]Talent is natural. Skill is obtained. If you have talent then it's easier for you to gain skill. A wider learning curve is proportionate to a wider skill gap. If it's harder for someone to use something then that means there is a much larger range of skill towards it. If someone picks up a sniper rifle and aims it down range to hit a target they will surely miss the target their first time. They will have to learn how to use it and become proficient with it. Now, if that same person were to have started with a long bow shooting a target the same distance they would have to learn how to use it as well. It would be much harder and would take a lot more to become proficient at it. Therefore there would be a wider skill gap to it. That's how it works.