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If you are not playing for first, why bother playing at all. Continuing your reasoning, why bother to play if you clearly can evaluate that first place is out of reach? Yeah, sometimes this evaluation can be wrong, so this is a part of learning and developing skill in game. In games I am clearly lo...

TM is most horrendous and unbalanced at 4p and most technical at 2p At 2p TM is almost dice throw game, who gets more card draw wins. Economy of TM is designed with 10 rounds top in mind, 9 rounds with Prelude. After 10(9) rounds leading players have overproducing economy to play mindlessly all car...

Solarman9 wrote: ↑17 December 2024, 08:16 If you are not playing for first, why bother playing at all.

Continuing your reasoning, why bother to play if you clearly can evaluate that first place is out of reach? Yeah, sometimes this evaluation can be wrong, so this is a part of learning and developing skill in game.

IMO 3+ player is not a great competitive format. I enjoy playing it socially with friends of course but the drafting, the hate cards, the map blocking, the awards, etc. all leave a lot of room for kingmaking and other shenanigans that can be aggravating when playing "competitively". So I ...

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