Re: [piecepack] Re: Alien City is cool

[Karl von Laudermann <karlvonl@...>]

On Thursday, August 22, 2002, at 03:44  PM, Michael Schoessow wrote:

> You might be right Karl and I admit that I didn't give a lot of thought
> into
> making it work for three or four players. Your suggestion about common
> ownwership is interesting because the progenitor game, San Jose, is more
> like that; there are four kinds of buildings in that game but only one
> kind
> is owned by the players, with the other three starting out in a common
> pool.
> Also there are no pieces equivalent to the ownership caps that player's
> have
> in Alien City.  I think the biggest issue for turning Alien City into a
> 4-player game involve the distribution of the small pyramids (the caps).
> Right now we have a total of six of them in the game and this number
> seems
> to work well. I don't think the number is extremely critical but on the
> other hand I would be surprised if 12 (3 per player in a 4-player game)
> would work well at all. Possibly eight (2 per player) would work, but
> having
> only two chances to claim a building seems unattractive somehow.

12 caps might work fine in a 4 player game. You'd only have 2 uncapped
towers at the end, but that's not necessarily bad. Although it would
limit the opportunity to score for uncapped greens.

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