What would be nice...

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I think I'm not explaining this very well.

It's not hard to figure out current playability based on your existing collection. What is troublesome is making meaningful recommendations.

Here's an example:

You own Afrika Korps.
You view the page for Secret Weapons.
You can play 0/31 scenarios.

Now what do we recommend in this case?
If you buy Beyond Normandy you can play 3/31 scenarios.
Road to Berlin or Guadalcanal would get you one more scenario.

Is this at all useful to know?

What if PG-HQ said "if you buy Road to Berlin AND Elsenborn Ridge AND Iron Curtain AND Battle of the Bulge AND Eastern Front AND Beyond Normandy you could play 21/31 scenarios!"

To me either outcome is basically meaningless.

Not only that, but generating that multi-game recommendation is programmatically very expensive. The human brain can look at the existing requirements matrix and put that dataset together very quickly. Computers don't "think" the same way. We would have to generate ALL 6 game sets (2,162,160 combinations) from the 14 we know are necessary and then sort by playable scenario count.

But I'm open to the possibility that I have a very different approach to buying games than others.