Stone Age hut placement over 10 people

[bobo10]

I suggest the addition of a confirmation box when you place your couple on the hut and you already have 10 people warning that you won't receive more people. It would be a good reminder for beginners and distracted turn based gamers! When you discover later that you have to skip the action and throw away 2 people for this turn because you didn't notice your people were maxed out, or you didn't noticed the rule at all, is very bad!

[lonchadebeicon]

But thats the point of the game. You should be focused enought to realize it on your own.

[NobleBonhomme]

another choice might be to allow a higher limit.but why not a warning,it would be less duplicitous.

[Jest Phulin]

Allowing a higher limit would conflict with the published rules. BGA's licensing agreements prohibit that. The only solution I see that is within the rules is to have a display showing how many meeples everyone has left that are not in play.

Besides, if I know that an opponent has all 5 of the "Score x number of people" cards, and it is the last round, using 2 of my meeples to prevent them from gaining an additional 7 points may be a good strategy for me.

[jgbaxter]

If a player has to waste 2 people in order to prevent a single opponent from getting a relative low level of VP then they certainly are making the wrong move 99.99% of the time.

If a player did that in F2F game I'd certainly mention to them their insanity.

[Jest Phulin]

I've never claimed to be sane....

I think it comes down to a preference of play. I tend to play that if the information is easily available by looking at the board situation, then there is no need for a warning. But, then the discussion becomes what is meant by "easily available." Should Takenoko prompt when one is about to take the "get a new task card" option if no cards of a certain type are available?


But, yes, I can see where it would be nice to have a counter of how many total people one has, or a display of how many are left to be brought out.