I think first and foremost it's the ability to play unconventionally.

Not the way we're all used to: "first horses in the Citadel (Castle)", "then a tier-3 Griffin Conservatory", a few beehives on ... + ... Wyvern and Dragon Utopia. Boring tryhard meta.

But when there are no resources, you have to manage to build something at all. And then go on to actually play with that.

By the way, here in this thread, instead of a round table, you'll scare off the last remaining people with your provocative questions — there are already so few sign-ups as it is )))