(OT) Do you prefer to know game formulas?

[Yossar]

Even if you choose to hide the formulas, some people will always try to figure them out from empirical evidence. With the Diablo series, Blizzard tried to hide most of the inner workings of the games, but those games have some hardcore fans and even the most obscure formulas eventually were discovered. I guess some people enjoy trying to find the formulas, but my feeling is that given enough time and enough people working on it, the formulas are all going to be known eventually, so you might as well make them all known and give everyone equal access to the information (instead of just people who hang out on the same forums as the hardcore researchers).

[Kristoffer O]

Would anyone prefer formulas that are complex enough not to be deciphered and broken down into statistics?

The current morale system for example. It might be decipherable, but I think that apart from being unknown, it is not easy to decide if it is better to have one large squad that probably won't rout or three smaller that are more likely to rout individually.

Is this good or is it just fustrating?