I’ll to the players on the victory condition. Seems hard to guess how long it would take to achieve victory with this win condition, but it has the potential to end very suddenly.

Happy to see Discoverer go.

6 starting Research may be a fair midpoint for Frog/me/Jonathan having scored 9/6/0 over the course of the game so far. A bit rough to judge that Jonathan has played objectively worse than somebody who joins tomorrow and does nothing, but if they’re voting for it, fair enough.

Understanding does feel too luck-based for a victory condition, especially as the genome gets longer and there’s the potential for anyone to squeak a couple of 8s if they’re lucky.

Not sure why the Mutation Requirements are being repealed.

Happy + fair + unwanted victory condition + unsure =

Mutation Requirements just feel like a pointless obstacle to the basic actions of the game. Doing anything over the baseline requiring a faffy process of moving around is not really an interesting design space - there’s no decisions, just an arbitrary blocker that takes time to circumnavigate.

A VC being on the books a month in to the game is best practice and is sort of a condition of me playing at this stage, I think - not wedded to this one but will probably idle back out if there isn’t something passed within a week or so.

It’s not too rough. I made some poor choices early on that limited my ability to earn research points, but it’s early enough that I felt like I could still overcome it, at least at the pace things were going so far.