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by MasN
25 March 2024, 06:17
Forum: A Feast for Odin
Topic: Norwegians is coming to town
Replies: 60
Views: 28645

Re: Norwegians is coming to town

I rescind my comments on emigration.
I've perfected an emigration opener, and was able to score 208 points with it.
I now think emigration is in a perfectly balanced spot.
(It is not overpowered, there are many strategies that are capable of scoring > 200 points.)
by MasN
21 March 2024, 22:36
Forum: A Feast for Odin
Topic: Norwegians is coming to town
Replies: 60
Views: 28645

Re: Norwegians is coming to town

Is Emigration too weak with Norwegians? Of course it's a perfectly fine late game scoring play, but a early emigration seems to cripple your engine too much to make up for the benefit. Just to test this out, I tried a game where I forced myself to emigrate a knarr on round 2, (and otherwise played t...
by MasN
31 October 2022, 19:52
Forum: Agricola
Topic: Game Statistics and Card Statistics
Replies: 13
Views: 8689

Re: Game Statistics and Card Statistics

The 4th player disadvantage is very obvious even without stats: On round 1, they place 4th and 8th, which is clearly worse than 2nd and 6th, with no food as compensation. I propose the following variant: - All players start with 3 food. - In round 1, the first worker is placed in reverse player order.
by MasN
20 September 2022, 18:45
Forum: Space Station Phoenix
Topic: First Player Advantage?
Replies: 6
Views: 2755

Re: First Player Advantage?

Hey Gabriel. Glad to see the designer here! The way I see it, the value of an early turn is about 12 gems. (some hubs give you 11 if you were to pass first action, and that would not be a very good move, even if it were legal.) In a 2p game, the starting gems is 0/1, which makes the implicit value o...
by MasN
17 September 2022, 12:14
Forum: Space Station Phoenix
Topic: First Player Advantage?
Replies: 6
Views: 2755

First Player Advantage?

The rules say that later players in turn order get a few extra gems.
This feels like insufficient compensation.
by MasN
06 August 2022, 17:31
Forum: A Feast for Odin
Topic: First player advantage?
Replies: 15
Views: 3532

Re: First player advantage?

@Keith Try not to read too much into a 1% difference when the sample size is this small. (Only about 4000 4p games). Playing around with a binomial calculator will show that in a sample of 4000, there's about a 1/4 chance that a player performs at 0.5% above their true winrate or better, and also ab...
by MasN
06 August 2022, 17:21
Forum: A Feast for Odin
Topic: Pass Order Board
Replies: 0
Views: 604

Pass Order Board

In AFFO, the game is balanced so that if one person gets an important 3V/4V action, the other players will be able to go before them next round and get the action first. However, since there is no pass order board, sometimes it doesn't happen, so somebody who passes first could go again second next ...
by MasN
04 July 2021, 17:42
Forum: Chinese checkers
Topic: Solution to Kingmaking?
Replies: 1
Views: 973

Solution to Kingmaking?

In this game, player took a pure backwards move at end of game for kingmaking purpose:
https://boardgamearena.com/table?table=184800517
Is there a setting to avoid this?
by MasN
19 June 2021, 00:15
Forum: Hardback
Topic: Suggestion: Make Default Dictionary *Not* 12dicts
Replies: 21
Views: 5067

Re: Suggestion: Make Default Dictionary *Not* 12dicts

Just today "capturable" not in 12dicts? This is kind of ridiculous.
by MasN
29 April 2021, 10:39
Forum: Tranquility
Topic: ELO reset?
Replies: 1
Views: 1255

ELO reset?

I am now #1 because I had first game after reset and highest K-factor

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