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[searcheagle]

All penalties are good IF
1. You can recover from them
or
2. They are an acceptable cost of a strategy that still lets you win or do well

and 3. If they are somehow foreseeable (Not necessarily if x happens, y happens but if x happens y is more likely to happen.) and if the player is capable of dealing with the problem.

 

[dh_epic]

Yeah, there should be no such thing as a guaranteed crippling penalty. There should be possible foreseeable penalties that add to your overall problems, but no more than for any other strategy you should choose. And everyone will have one or two problems that won't be crippling -- the key is not letting it get out of hand.