So we've been turning up the difficulty in Space Alert lately.
I should probably clarify who "we" is -- me, Noelle, Andy, Nick, and Seth. That's basically our usual Truth House crew now; roles vary. Josh and Eric (first-year Eric, not Gamble or DeVries, who haven't lived here for a while) have played before, as has Sam, but these days it's usually the same five of us. On the one hand, it seems kind of disappointing that we're not getting more people involved, like we used to; on the other hand, hey, a consistent crew. (Although Seth stayed out for the first two out of the four games tonight.)
And we definitely seem to be getting better! For quite a while here "standard difficulty" was all decks mixed, except serious internal, which would be white. But not too long ago we started mixing in the yellow serious internals; then removing the white ordinary threats; until today the final game we played was all decks yellow, except for serious internal, which was mixed.
Two of the games we played had all-yellow threats! We survived! In our final game the Seeker -- the dreaded Seeker, which I consider the scariest threat in the base set -- showed up! We survived! (Yeah, I realize other people consdier the Executioner or the Nuclear Device scarier. To be fair, I've still never faced the Nuclear Device; it might be harder than I'm giving it credit for.)
Actually, on that topic -- I realized today, one thing that makes the Seeker easier is that it doesn't move on ties, and ties are probably more likely than non-ties, and not moving is easier to handle than moving.
...we forgot to account for the Seeker knocking out the person who kills it though, which was Seth. Oops. Seth actually got knocked out in both games he was in tonight. In the earlier one, he was knocked out by the Executioner; we knew he would get knocked out, since his move to the bridge, where the Executioner was headed, was locked in by then; but I (the captain) got mixed up and thought he'd be knocked out at the end of the turn rather than the beginning. Which meant he was knocked out before hitting the mouse rather than after. But we survived!
Maybe soon we'll turn it up to all yellow -- I mean, guaranteed all yellow, not just possibly all yellow. And maybe soon I should look into getting the expansion, for the few more months we're all here...
-Harry
I should probably clarify who "we" is -- me, Noelle, Andy, Nick, and Seth. That's basically our usual Truth House crew now; roles vary. Josh and Eric (first-year Eric, not Gamble or DeVries, who haven't lived here for a while) have played before, as has Sam, but these days it's usually the same five of us. On the one hand, it seems kind of disappointing that we're not getting more people involved, like we used to; on the other hand, hey, a consistent crew. (Although Seth stayed out for the first two out of the four games tonight.)
And we definitely seem to be getting better! For quite a while here "standard difficulty" was all decks mixed, except serious internal, which would be white. But not too long ago we started mixing in the yellow serious internals; then removing the white ordinary threats; until today the final game we played was all decks yellow, except for serious internal, which was mixed.
Two of the games we played had all-yellow threats! We survived! In our final game the Seeker -- the dreaded Seeker, which I consider the scariest threat in the base set -- showed up! We survived! (Yeah, I realize other people consdier the Executioner or the Nuclear Device scarier. To be fair, I've still never faced the Nuclear Device; it might be harder than I'm giving it credit for.)
Actually, on that topic -- I realized today, one thing that makes the Seeker easier is that it doesn't move on ties, and ties are probably more likely than non-ties, and not moving is easier to handle than moving.
...we forgot to account for the Seeker knocking out the person who kills it though, which was Seth. Oops. Seth actually got knocked out in both games he was in tonight. In the earlier one, he was knocked out by the Executioner; we knew he would get knocked out, since his move to the bridge, where the Executioner was headed, was locked in by then; but I (the captain) got mixed up and thought he'd be knocked out at the end of the turn rather than the beginning. Which meant he was knocked out before hitting the mouse rather than after. But we survived!
Maybe soon we'll turn it up to all yellow -- I mean, guaranteed all yellow, not just possibly all yellow. And maybe soon I should look into getting the expansion, for the few more months we're all here...
-Harry
