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Think it's the same in pretty much every game, especially nearing the end of the season most people are burned out and the only people left playing are just climbing for final rank or just really enjoy the game. In both cases the players are usually quite good. Try joining near the beginning of a ne...

I’ve tried to make statistic arguments before, but it’s hard without game data. Also, I was laid off from my job so I just want to pursue a small passion project at the moment. People probably know me as season 1,2,3 champion, and I want to write a race for the galaxy “shrine” website with detailed ...

I used to think PGA was broken, but I've found it beatable (unless paired with the aforementioned developers). The most broken cards are the cheap ones (i.e. pan galactic mediator paired with one of the contact specialist like start worlds, black hole miners and pan galactic research for crazy card ...

I thought I was already sick of galactic developers, but my impression after playing this expansion for a bit are that developments are super crucial and if you start with one of the dev worlds you are basically guaranteed a victory. I don't know how others' experiences have been or if someone has c...

After playing a few games of this expansion, it seems like the games finish very quickly, and your bad hands / start worlds just exacerbate the runaway problem. I propose a "mulligan" option, where you can have one reroll of your start worlds / hand (you choose one, i.e. start worlds OR ha...

OK, I am a little busy at the moment, but I will definitely post something here when I have a chance to write it!

Hey all,

I'm thinking about writing a strategy blog about RFTG, would there be any interest? I'm going to specifically focus on this ruleset:

Gathering Storm + Rebel v Imperium + Brink of War + takeovers on.

Here is my vote: Gathering Storm + RvI + BoW + takeovers on Now that this awful base game season is almost over, can we start voting for next season (anything but base, please). Why I don't like base? 99% of the games seems like produce - consume. Military strategy is mostly bad, and develop strateg...

Yes, I am the old Season1,2,3 champion of RFTG back when it had more expansions. I did some statistical analysis on the seasons so far for the top 10 scores (I wasn't present for S5 and S6 so feel free to fill out the appropriate expansions there). I was actually impressed that last season scored so...

Yes, all phases that are selected are shared by both players, you just don't get the bonus (i.e. -1 cost for choosing development, draw 1 extra card after settle, etc).