Proposal: Millpond
In “The Cities and the Sea”, replace “Update the destination of their starting Boat to be the name of a City other than themselves, of their choice.” with:-
Update the Location of their Boat to be themselves
And remove “Set Sail with their starting Boat, as defined in the rule “Boats”.”
Replace “Set their Specialization to be one of the Produced Resources.” with:-
Set their Specialization to a randomly-selected Produced Resource.
Per my comment at the telegram office, proposing to change the two things that may be causing players to wait to see what others do before initialising.
(I do think the great unrepeated lesson of the Royal Succession dynasty was that random initial values can save us from a lot of this kind of late-mover agonising, at the start of a dynasty.)
because there does seem to be a problem here.
I would really prefer that the game starts with something other than null values - that’s what starting in transit was supposed to do, ensuring that there was an on-ramp for starting players. I’m okay with knocking specialisation on the head, though.
JonathanDark: he/him
I’d be in favor of this only if a City was allowed to reset their Specialization in some way. I’d hate to be stuck with a disadvantaged Specialization. Having to pay a cost to do so is fine, as is a requirement that it can only be changed once per dynasty.