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Gaditus · Joined: 05 Feb 07 Posts: 1924 Location: Canterbury, UK

I will be taking sign ups for a new 4 player tourney shortly.

I thought I would ask whether there are any changes to the format that I should consider before starting the next one?

freduk · Joined: 18 Jan 06 Posts: 433 Location: Bristol, UK

Nope. More of the same, please! Very Happy

tphon · Joined: 02 Nov 07 Posts: 219 Location: Wirral, England

Works for me too, great work Gad

danbar1963 · Joined: 12 Mar 06 Posts: 92

I'm in and like how things have played up to now.

kwojtasz · Joined: 15 Nov 05 Posts: 54 Location: buffalo, ny

count me in, now that the rust have fallen off on the games I don't play much on sbw...

one suggestion would be to use the Auction variant for Tikal. That would eliminate the luck of the draw on the treasure and scoring tiles.

ahauwi1 · Joined: 22 Dec 06 Posts: 112 Location: Minneapolis, MN

I'll second the auction Tikal variant!

jglazier · Joined: 22 Nov 05 Posts: 119 Location: Brentwood, CA

Is it a once around auction? Otherwise it may really extend the game.

smlait · Joined: 16 Jul 06 Posts: 392 Location: alberta, canada

Nope, not once around and it really does slow down the game. It's fine in person but the games here drag on and on (to the point that I don't play that variant anymore). Suffice it to say, I'm not a fan of the auction version of Tikal.

Edited to note that the auction really does nothing to ameliorate the treasure tile luck as the luck of who gets matching sets and who doesn't has a much bigger influence on the outcome of the game than does the luck of who happens to draw the treasure tiles. In my opinion, of course.

tphon · Joined: 02 Nov 07 Posts: 219 Location: Wirral, England

I'm with Sue on this one, having played here, it really is a drag, games can last 4 times longer

Gaditus · Joined: 05 Feb 07 Posts: 1924 Location: Canterbury, UK

From my experience it does extend the game length significantly, and I suspect too much to use it here - but I will try to work out how it stacks up against Santiago which seems to be the longest game.

Imho, it doesn't seem to affect the luck of the draw that much, it just moves it around. It does add something to the game, but probably not enough for the extra time spent, which could be used to play more normal games.

cpsof95 · Joined: 31 Mar 06 Posts: 177 Location: Finland

Well, if you have a nice camp location, then pulling a wonderful temple can easily be worth 10-15 during the game. If you pull an empty tile and someone blocks your camp, you lose those points. And in games with good players 10-15 is a LOT.

tlc · Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 8:54 am Post subject:

I agree with Tikal going on too long with the auction variant. Santiago may go on longer but at least you don't feel like you are playing the same turn many times in a row.

Count me in for another tourney.

smlait · Joined: 16 Jul 06 Posts: 392 Location: alberta, canada

richardburke · Joined: 14 Oct 19 Posts: 11

Nice post