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Interesting to see this as now I have hit 400 to 500 elo in Terraforming Mars I notice I often play against people in the low 200s who are crazy good. Sometimes they admit to being an offline expert who plays ‘now and then’ online but it does seem likely there’s a lot of surfing in this game. I’m no...

Yeah I think you are right, now I am in the 300-400 range I seem to run into that kind of player more.

I hadn’t encountered any smurfs for over a year but have run into three this week - why do people bother? Is it fun to play vs people much worse than you?

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I think the gentleman's agreement, at least higher skilled players, is always two actions, unless you need to, then tit for tat (you start doing one action, I start doing one action until you go back to two). Most games I've played, players will even sell card, sell card. I've never seen someone do...

Any appetite out there for a version that enforces 2 actions per turn if possible? I’m enjoying TM a lot but as I get higher I find a lot of players skips every second action for the minor boost to win rate it gives. When they also take 40 sec to decide their action it turns a 45 min game into 1hr 15…