david060742 wrote: ↑26 October 2024, 05:51
First of all, if you have to change the settings to make it playable, that is bad. I have never had to do that with any other game on BGA so why is it OK here?
Secondly, I get you are trying to keep the colours of the RL board but that is problematic. The pieces blend in with the board and it is very easy to not see another player meeple, especially on the islands. This happened in a recent game and completely ruined the whole round (and probably my game.
Thirdly, if you are playing a four player game, you can't scroll down enough to see the fourth players stats. Never seen that in any other game.
That is just a few of issues. I own this game and love it, having played it many times, but this version does not feel smooth at all. I'm sure you did put a lot of work into it but you have put it out too early. It needs more work.
The game is perfectly playable with the default settings. It might not be the settings that fit you the best hence you simply can change them, but your statement "not playable" is just plain wrong.
You are the first person complaining about the colours, but instead of stating the implementation is bad just create a suggestion of how you would like the meeples to be changed in order to make it better playable for you. With suggestions I can potentially work, with simple unspecific complaints I can't.
The scrolling can also be adjusted in the settings to behave like all other games on BGA. I set the right side to not scroll by default to always have the history table displayed. Instead of making the right side scrollable, you can also just collapse the history table. You have all the options, just use them.
No game will ever be perfect, but this implementation was played, appreciated and approved by a lot of players during its Alpha and Beta phases and consequently released at BGAs request.
