Colour Selection for Signorie

[Gargoyle_7]

I'd like to comment on the colour selection protocol for Signorie. The only reason for colour preferences to be disabled is if the game is asymmetric. I'd like to suggest that as the distribution of the family tiles is the same for each family, that this game isn't asymmetric. For that reason, I ask that you reconsider the setting for colour preference for this game, or perhaps allow gamers to select the option. I would argue that nothing is gained by random colour assignment and whatever anyone thinks is gained is lost compared to the confusion as friends play each other's traditional colours.

Indeed I would argue that asymmetry is introduced when one (premium) player randomly gets their preferred colour and another (premium) player randomly does not.

[smci]

+1 Agreed, but low-priority IMO. Please file a bug (https://boardgamearena.com/#!bugs) so we can upvote and comment on it.

(It probably would get your bug report more attention if you reference any specific game number.)

[paramesis]

The only reason for colour preferences to be disabled is if the game is asymmetric...

Not exactly. The specific guideline, linked below, states that player color preferences should not be used if the color has an influence on a mechanism of the game or an influence on turn order.

http://en.doc.boardgamearena.com/Main_g ... references

On an individual basis, the distribution of alliance tiles doesn't matter for the reasons you mention, but the issue arises with color combinations with other players. Red + Yellow and Blue + Purple are the only combinations of player colors among which no career row has the same doubled alliance tiles, while Blue + Yellow for example both have doubled Fleur de Lis tiles in their career rows. Contention over alliance tiles differs among player color combinations, and if two players express preferences, they will always have the same contention over alliance tiles relative to each other. While this does seem like a subtle and mostly inconsequential impact on the game, it represents a scenario where this rule applies.

[Gargoyle_7]

@paramesis - Right, I hadn't thought of that. Fair enough. Though maybe when the player count is full colour preferences being applied can be less of a problem? Sure, I might be in contention with the same friend who I play with often, but that would be less a problem than the confusion of playing his colour as he plays mine that I have played for ~50 years.