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maybe @giovep can chime in here as he and some of the top Italian players did a lot of work building and designing an AI for playing 7wd base game. They saw the same problem (~67% winrate for player 1 with high-level play) and came up with some cool solutions that would be easy to implement on BGA....

I've read your post in it's entirety and I agree with you wholeheartedly. I think viticulture has a lot of charm and is a cleverly designed game, but visitor cards potentially ruin a game. The fact I have once seen someone win without ever filling a single order (they simply got 3 of those 'gain 1 ...

In 7 Wonders Duel, the first player appears to have a significant advantage, with BGA data suggesting a win rate of around 55%. The simplest way to reduce this imbalance would be to give the second player a small VP compensation. I think a fractional VP bonus would work better than an integer bonus:...

not reading through it entirely but there is a lot of balance with the cards off, as it always is on stegmaier games. thats where during development corners are cut. its the same with scythe, same with tapestry... are there official balancing adjusments by Jamey/stonmaier games? (like they are for ...

If rebalancing is not possible, what about ban list? Like the Power 4 birds in Wingspan. I‘m not sure if the publisher (also SM) officially acknowledged that. Also there‘s the option on BGA to ban the Power 4 + Woodduck. Does BGA have the right to implement that?

Should Viticulture on BGA Have a Balance Patch / Ban List for the Most Broken Visitor Cards? I'd like to start a discussion about the balance of visitor cards in Viticulture , especially with Tuscany . This is not meant to be a definitive "these are the correct fixes" post. Since we are p...

I completely agree with you. The designer absolutely can foresee the hate on this card. It doesn’t fit a serious Euro game as it appears to be, but he still insisted on it. Why? Because he has the right to spread his bad taste with his work. One way to improve the card could be, changing the target ...

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I recommend you immediately remove the player name and link to their profile as it is against the rules to do this. For example, in a Swiss tournament with 28 days allocated per round, it makes little sense to allow players to skip opponents when there is still ample time remaining. In our case, th...

And, why is this in the Terraforming Mars forum? This is a site-wide issue that has nothing to do with Terraforming Mars specifically. At the end of Generation 8, before the final actions of the last two players, both players were at 50 VP and each had more than 14 MC available. Both clearly feared...