Highest number of destinations

[Cournot]

IMO Big Cities has broken TTR Europe. I would like the Arena to drop this expansion.

Hopefully tbh

[Steeldemon]

This has happened to me the last couple times. It seems like all of a sudden in the last couple rounds people miraculously have 15-20 routes and they complete them all. It’s like they cheat the system somehow. I don’t get it. There’s something wrong if you can keep 5 plus routes every time or there needs to be less available.

[ExaltedAngel]

IMO Big Cities has broken TTR Europe. I would like the Arena to drop this expansion.

Agree, but it's up to gurus to revert the change

There’s something wrong if you can keep 5 plus routes every time or there needs to be less available.

It's exactly how it's supposed to work. The description of the mode explains clairly the reason why this happens: every ticket has one of the big cities in it. You connect all the big cities, you complete most of the tickets. It's basic logic. It’s not like if there’s something you don’t understand, there must be someone cheating

[Andernut]

IMO Big Cities has broken TTR Europe. I would like the Arena to drop this expansion.

I agree, it's not fun. There's no multiple strategies in this version, I played one game, realized what happened and why I got smoked (I didn't initially draw the magic cities and was connecting others). I thought opponent was throwing the game by pulling destinations every round while I happily connected my longer routes and was flabbergasted when every route of theirs worked.

I won't be playing this season.

[Jontia]

Same thing happened to me in Arena (game #796077814). My opponent didn’t even use all of their trains. I believe they had 15-17 leftover. Every single additional route they picked up they magically had. They told me they went through major cities (they didn’t) to get it done and they probably could’ve gotten 31 routes if I hadn’t ended the game. I’m highly suspicious someone found a way to cheat the system…

Having just watched the reply, your opponent went into every major city. The most obvious difference in play style would appear to have been use of the stations. You opponent used two to get crucial routes across the middle of the board where you'd taken the efficient lines of travel, and you didn't use any and had to use up a lot of trains to go around places where you'd otherwise have been blocked.