The combat system should be fairly abstract and simple, just like in Civ 5, where you order your troops into battle without getting into nitty-gritty tactics.

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In reaction, it was soon posited that abstract work had meaning, but as part of a code or system of signs.

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Now our broken system allows applicants to patent obvious tweaks to existing technologies, and abstract, jargon-filled descriptions of commonplace activities conducted with a computer.

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She added the decision to switch from the party's previous system of having two principal speakers followed "the realisation that people don't respond to abstract ideas".

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