posted by [identity profile] damerell.livejournal.com at 01:38pm on 10/07/2007
But there's also the Imperial strategy card, no? Or did they play with one of the variants that eliminate or weaken it?

[I've no sympathy if they did - well, I have for you, but not for the people who decided to do that.]
 
posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 03:43pm on 10/07/2007
We played with the expansion set to bring it up to eight players, but it was decided to not use the Imperial strategy card, to stop people, well, using that as a strategy...
 
posted by [identity profile] damerell.livejournal.com at 03:52pm on 10/07/2007
It's Monopoly all over again; introduce a house rule that causes the game to fail to terminate, wonder why the game fails to terminate. :-)
 
posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 05:00pm on 10/07/2007
[livejournal.com profile] slev has new rules now: no more than 2 first-time players in a game, and start with a preset board (partly for speed of setting up, partly to improve the balance of resources - I had little influence, he had little green resources.)
 
posted by [identity profile] damerell.livejournal.com at 05:14pm on 10/07/2007
We used to do the setup phase before people knew where their seats were, although the intended competitive setup's an interesting mechanic.

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