Agreed. There's been 3 of my recent games where my spirit animal is dependent on a a particular colour and only 3-7 of those came out the entirety of the game. When you're opponent takes half, it's hard to even finish the spirit animal. Yes, I am selecting spirit animals according to tokens presented at the start.
On the other hand, in the same game, my opponent, had access to countless blues, 14+ in total, and their spirit scored based on blues.
Yes, I did pivot in all games to try and incorporate other cards and other combos. But I'm the end when you're opponent scores 20+ for their spirit animal alone, it's hard to make up the difference.
If it was a one off, I wouldn't have said anything. Happening multiple times, makes it pretty luck dependent, in my opinion.
Raymond-L wrote: ↑04 September 2024, 04:42
I'm near 100 matches with Harmonies. And I have to say, the luck factor definitely should not be 1. In a 2 player game, usually around 60 tokens will be placed. Count in the remaining offer, that will be 75 tokens. There is a total of 120 tokens in the game.
Chakra has a similar energy/token taking mechanism, but the game only features 48 energies, and ends with around 36 energies excavated.
Chakra has a luck rating of 2, which is more than justified. A luck rating of 1 is for games like Terra Mystica or Century: Spice Road (curiously, the later has a luck rating of 3. Because apparently 3 is the default and no one bothered to change it).
5/8 is a lot lower than 3/4, not to mention the pool size increasing the variance of the distribution of tokens. I have encountered 3 matches in which only 3 tokens of a particular color are excavated. Is the chance high? Maybe not. 3% can be tolerable for some players. But these are incredibly sacky games, in which we're just playing who catches green first. Not something I'd expect in a a game with a luck rating of 1. Not 1 out of 1000 matches.
