Also, now I understand Citadels somewhat
Dec. 26th, 2007 03:20 pmInteresting Settlers variant I played last night: A city on a port lets you do 3-for-2 or 2-for-2, as appropriate. (The 2 you get must be the same, and no, just having a city at all doesn't let you do 4-for-2.) The idea, of course, is to make cities on ports worth getting.
There was some ridiculous stuff going on with the 2-for-2 ports, unsurprisingly. Rob[0], who usually plays this way, insists normally it's pretty balanced, and said maybe it has to do with the fact that we had 5 players. 3-for-2 doesn't seem bad (though of course it's a better ratio than 2-for-1), but I have to wonder if maybe there's some other way of making 2-for-1 better... changing it to "2-for-1 or 3-for-2" doesn't work as that still leaves it much worse than the upgraded 3-1, and so does making it 2-1 for any resource. Hm. Well, I shouldn't go assuming 2-for-2 really doesn't work; I'll have to try this some more.
-Harry
[0]Context! Unfortunately, since I'm not in Chicago, I can't introduce people as "$name of $house" to both identify them and give some context at the same time. So, I could tell you I mean Rob Press, but that still gives you little context to place him in.
...but, well, I'm lazy, and this entry is really not about the people (I didn't even mention who the other players were), so, I won't bother to explain.
There was some ridiculous stuff going on with the 2-for-2 ports, unsurprisingly. Rob[0], who usually plays this way, insists normally it's pretty balanced, and said maybe it has to do with the fact that we had 5 players. 3-for-2 doesn't seem bad (though of course it's a better ratio than 2-for-1), but I have to wonder if maybe there's some other way of making 2-for-1 better... changing it to "2-for-1 or 3-for-2" doesn't work as that still leaves it much worse than the upgraded 3-1, and so does making it 2-1 for any resource. Hm. Well, I shouldn't go assuming 2-for-2 really doesn't work; I'll have to try this some more.
-Harry
[0]Context! Unfortunately, since I'm not in Chicago, I can't introduce people as "$name of $house" to both identify them and give some context at the same time. So, I could tell you I mean Rob Press, but that still gives you little context to place him in.
...but, well, I'm lazy, and this entry is really not about the people (I didn't even mention who the other players were), so, I won't bother to explain.
