I exploited the rules of this game worse than an American megacorporation discovering a population of starving fourth world children willing to work 18 hours/day to earn pennies making shoes and t-shirts. So, it seems unconscionable for me to post my report. It's really not the same event.
That being the case, I would like to say that I enjoyed playing this event quite a bit. Even if you're exploiting something, you are subject to the rules of the event. To play well requires attention to the game, meaningful decisions, and likely will lead to an increase in the quality of your play. To me, especially with the prospect of comparing your efforts with others', that's fun.
Having more than one scoring category as per Sullla's suggestion in Ruff_hi's thread, perhaps even self-nominated as Ruff suggested, does make things a bit more awkward, but it might work.
I don't know the solution. I have no interest whatsoever in playing an easy game just to beat the scores of less experienced players. I also don't want to see things go the way of CFC's HoF/GotM games and have all games become hard-core competitive rule-benders (though I myself appear to be a big part of the problem by playing the events the way I do).
I like the variants. I like the competition. I like having players with differing experience and backgrounds play te events.
Maybe instead of a listed score for a gentle (and maybe medium?) event, a veteran player can write a 1- or 2-sentence description of their game that would be listed in the Results under a "What our veterans did with this variant" section.
Relevant to this event, I did discover one more way to make money during this event. If you partially build a missionary, then remove it from the queue. Then, you built your entire quota of that religion's missionaries, your partially built missionary will be refunded to you just like a lost wonder. It would take a lot of micromanaging to make this profitable, but I thought I'd point it out in case anyone was interested.
That being the case, I would like to say that I enjoyed playing this event quite a bit. Even if you're exploiting something, you are subject to the rules of the event. To play well requires attention to the game, meaningful decisions, and likely will lead to an increase in the quality of your play. To me, especially with the prospect of comparing your efforts with others', that's fun.
Having more than one scoring category as per Sullla's suggestion in Ruff_hi's thread, perhaps even self-nominated as Ruff suggested, does make things a bit more awkward, but it might work.
I don't know the solution. I have no interest whatsoever in playing an easy game just to beat the scores of less experienced players. I also don't want to see things go the way of CFC's HoF/GotM games and have all games become hard-core competitive rule-benders (though I myself appear to be a big part of the problem by playing the events the way I do).
I like the variants. I like the competition. I like having players with differing experience and backgrounds play te events.
Maybe instead of a listed score for a gentle (and maybe medium?) event, a veteran player can write a 1- or 2-sentence description of their game that would be listed in the Results under a "What our veterans did with this variant" section.
Relevant to this event, I did discover one more way to make money during this event. If you partially build a missionary, then remove it from the queue. Then, you built your entire quota of that religion's missionaries, your partially built missionary will be refunded to you just like a lost wonder. It would take a lot of micromanaging to make this profitable, but I thought I'd point it out in case anyone was interested.
Let's see if others weigh in on this.
This is only my second event and report, but I had tremendous fun writing it up. It also made me think a lot more about just what happened and why, and how I can do better in future.
