I agree completely with the post below. IRL, we don't sit around asking people to show cards and count tags. So we often feel like we are unsure of whether we are winning or not and that really adds to the overall enjoyment. As this poster said, knowing you are out early in the generations really sucks the FUN right out of the game and that's why I play...for FUN!
"TBH I was really surprised Mars has live scoring. Half of the fun of original game is that you DO NOT know exactly. You have a feeling for people having good/bad scores, but some strategies strongly lean towards opponents inability to keep track of how much are you having exactly (animals, microbes, ...).
Live scoring turns the endgame into cold calcul of "how much points exactly do I need to score/take away from someone to win?" It shouldn´t be that way. Especially in arena games (even those turn-based ones) should counting points during the game be extra information and people should have made their own effort for it (ingame notes are there after all). Having dynamic calculations of how exactly each title and competition involves each other is brutal and I personally really don´t like it. And I feel it should be omitted from arena games.
In table you know Terrarating as scoring and that´s all. Guess the rest (so you do not slow the table down). Having everything served on a silver plate turns this into precise-targeted endgame animosity every time and is not much fun in general."
"TBH I was really surprised Mars has live scoring. Half of the fun of original game is that you DO NOT know exactly. You have a feeling for people having good/bad scores, but some strategies strongly lean towards opponents inability to keep track of how much are you having exactly (animals, microbes, ...).
Live scoring turns the endgame into cold calcul of "how much points exactly do I need to score/take away from someone to win?" It shouldn´t be that way. Especially in arena games (even those turn-based ones) should counting points during the game be extra information and people should have made their own effort for it (ingame notes are there after all). Having dynamic calculations of how exactly each title and competition involves each other is brutal and I personally really don´t like it. And I feel it should be omitted from arena games.
In table you know Terrarating as scoring and that´s all. Guess the rest (so you do not slow the table down). Having everything served on a silver plate turns this into precise-targeted endgame animosity every time and is not much fun in general."
