BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

, because I don’t think the extra complexity is worth it for what amounts to a larger luck factor on the shuffle.

because I was deliberately trying to avoid a location-based mechanic, but I don’t oppose this well-worked proposal strongly enough to do a veto.

The gameplay I was aiming for was really just to make the sequencing of Routes thematically significant, so that there was some strategy in setting up a good combo, rather than just piling all of the high-scoring Airport Routes to the top of your list. I’m just using the word “Location” because I needed a noun for “half a Route”.

The idea is to manipulate the content, rather than the order, of your pool, so that you get better Routes more.

(but if people want to move into this direction, I’ll support)

Oh, something like Dominion? Fair enough, but I didn’t realise that this was “the idea”. (If this was just from IRC discussion, it’d be good to put it in a proposal or announcement so that we all know about it.)

We should add complexity somehow, though, in order to open up different strategies, and a second Location seems like an easy way to achieve that. The same-Location bonus needn’t be the emphasis.

I think coppro mentioned in a post somewhere that the similarity to Dominion was not a coincidence. I’d be proposing along those lines if I had slots left. (Oh why do we have the slot limit at the start of dynasties…)

[ais] Oh, I think throttling early proposals is a good thing - it gives everyone a chance to influence the shape of the dynasty, rather than having a small design group banging out a complete game in the first few hours.

other people should just vote for ais’ proposal so that we can clear the queue.

Or against it. It’s close to tied. (9-7, by my count.)

I don’t see why we can’t manipulate both the order of the routes in our hand and the contents of our route deck.

meh.

to avoid a quorum while I ponder

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