Makeshift Corporation during Arena play

[kvarclovag]

There's another strange thing about MakeShift. TiMarron has been given the MakeShift corporation 10 times out of his last 20 games. And he's still playing with it right now. This is a very extreme and unlikely distribution.

[TiMarron]

There's another strange thing about MakeShift. TiMarron has been given the MakeShift corporation 10 times out of his last 20 games. And he's still playing with it right now. This is a very extreme and unlikely distribution.

Oh! You right!

I checked all my arena games this year and this is what came up:
Makeshift - 11
Oasis Ultd - 2
Horizon Group - 3
Jump Drive - 3
Republic - 3
Universal Coalition - 2
Cosmos inc - 2
Wormhole Corp - 1

A total of 27 games and of which 11 are for Makeshift.

Even more interesting, I've never once played against Makeshift

And the most frustrating thing for me is that I personally liked Wormhole the most, but I think I only managed to play it twice in all my games

This season is based a lot on luck. But despite this, I would like to point out that I lost only 1 game, even playing for other corporations

[kvarclovag]

I have 12 two-player games this year, in the following order:

Cosmos 1
Horizon Group 2
Jump Drive 1
Makeshift 1
Oasis 3
Republic 2
Universal (instead of Flux) 2

I played against Makeshift once, which is unbeatable, but luckily my opponent didn't take advantage of Makeshift's abilities, so I won.
Asymmetrical companies increase the role of luck, the two-player game increases it even more, if even the companies are distributed this unevenly, then the role of luck will really be big this season.

(I don't like the two-player game, because the bad thing is that I can never spin SUSAN.)

[evanrnhall]

Gurus can ONLY propose Arena options using the game options that exist now.

I just submitted this suggestion to add game options allowing asymmetric planets and corps provided each player gets the same setup within a game.
https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=158938


If people upvote and it gets implemented, then in the future Gurus could vote to make it the Arena format.

Right now, it looks like Gurus are voting to go back to symmetric setup for next Arena, but there is split opinion about 2 vs 3 player mode.

[kvarclovag]

I agree with your suggestion.

The rule for the two-player game is bad, it kills the interaction in the game, it excludes the possibility of sometimes deciding for yourself which tile to take. It would be good if the rotation was like this: roll the dice, player A, roll the dice, player B. That is, every second rotation would be decided by a roll of the dice, and every second by the players

There are also errors in the programming that should be fixed. If you take a civ card, it gives you the options per turn again, which doubles it, even though it only goes once. I will report this as an error, I was just lazy so far.