History Main / VideoGameDelegationPenalty

** While this can be suberted depending on the character (even at top levels of play) as some, like Luke and Zangief, lose relatively little and gain 1-button reversals or command grabs, it's played completely straight for characters with charge motions (holding one direction for about a second, then putting kn the opposite direction and an attack button). Charge moves don't get any benefits motion-based specials have (no one-button/instant sonic booms or flash kicks), but still do reduced damage. This makes the benefit objectively useless, since charge characters rely on their charge moves for most of their gameplan.

** First edition had =multiple systems for having non-dungeon-crawling game modes. Since you can hire managers for businesses, have teams perform work for you, run small nations, and lead armies, you can have a NonPlayerCharacter do all these things for you, too. However, as they are less wealthy and powerful than a similarly-leveled PlayerCharacter, and they have their own interests in mind, this trope is in effect.

* In ''VideoGame/PathfinderWrathOfTheRighteous'' strategic decisions can be handed off to the computer to allow you to focus solely on adventuring, but doing so costs several potentially useful items you'd otherwise pick up. Crusade battles can also be automatically resolved, but at time of release this feature was almost completely unusable, penalized so greatly that a battle you could easily win manually without meaningful losses would result in your army being completely wiped out or taking crippling casualties.

* Ubiquitous in ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' first edition, where there are multiple systems for having non-dungeon-crawling game modes. Since you can hire managers for businesses, have teams perform work for you, run small nations, and lead armies, you can have a NonPlayerCharacter do all these things for you, too. However, as they are less wealthy and powerful than a similarly-leveled PlayerCharacter, and they have their own interests in mind, this trope is in effect.

* VideoGame/CounterSide:

* ''VideoGame/{{Palworld}}'': Digtoise is a tortoise Pal who can use a spinning shell attack to mine ores by damaging them. This can be done by either manually using Digtoise as an active Pal and sending it at ores or activating its partner skill Drill Crusher, or by assigning Digtoise to a base where it will automatically mine ores for a lot less damage. A fully condensed Digtoise will destroy copper ore in five SpinAttack cycles if assigned to a base, which is already very powerful, but it will destroy that same ore in ''one'' cycle if manually commanded to as an Active Pal.

* ''VideoGame/{{Palworld}}'': Digtoise is a tortoise Pal who can use a spinning shell attack to mine ores by damaging them. This can be done by either using Digtoise as an active Pal and manually activating its partner skill Drill Crusher, or by assigning Digtoise to a base where it will automatically mine ores but the damage, while high, pales in comparison to the manual partner skill.

* ''VideoGame/{{Palworld}}'': Digtoise is a tortoise Pal who can use a spinning shell attack to mine ores by damaging them. This can be done by either using Digtoise as an active Pal and manually activating its partner skill Drill Crusher, or by assigning Digtoise to a base where it will automatically mine ores but deal ''massively reduced'' damage compared to the partner skill.

* ''VideoGame/{{Palworld}}'': Digtoise is a tortoise Pal who can use a spinning shell attack to mine ores by damaging them. This can be done by either using Digtoise as an active Pal and manually activating its partner skill Drill Crusher, or by assigning Digtoise to a base where it will automatically mine ores but deal a ''much'' lower amount of damage compared to the partner skill.