Re: [piecepack] Re: Tried Out Tarrifs

[Porter235 <porter235@...>]

Thanks Mike and everyone for all of your feedback. As you may have guessed, 
the game was inspired by Trans America after I had the chance to play it at a 
friends house. I was so excited I came home and wrote it out in the state it 
is in now. I had thought about holding on to it to enter into a competition, 
but I wanted to get the idea out there.

Since then Life (tm) has had a way of getting in the way and I haven't looked 
at it again. 

Thank you all for your comments. I definitely want to fix it up now. Here are 
some specific responses...

Cities vs factories. Yep, I should make a choice and stick with it.

Spacing. Yes.. we found that out as well as we first tried to play it. 
spreading them out is pretty much required unless you have a tiny set of 
double 6's (which I also have).

Random set up. Go for it. I will probably add that as a stated option. I 
wanted to give some set suggestions that would at least give the illusion of 
being more fair and look like a map.

Hidden hands. I honestly can't remember what my original intentions were. I 
assume like most of you I meant for them to be hidden.

Value of Trade. Now that I look at the game and what others have said, I 
concur, trading will probably be removed as an option all together for 
streamlining.

Score for inverted dominoes. I like the +2 because it also might add incentive 
for someone to purposely add a single larger tariff to their own route just 
to penalise others.

Additional comment... I am thinking, with the removal of trade, it might be 
even more interesting to decrease hand size to 1. Now you have no choice as 
to what domino to play. (though you still could rotate and not play this one 
now) This doesn't really reduce your options as you can play larger pips so 
that they end up on opponents paths... thoughts?

Thanks again to all. I look forward to getting a chance to clean these up... 
(though I have a 2 year old at home and am expecting our second child to 
arrive in the next 3 weeks)

JCD

PS
I may still enter it in a competition, if there is another competition, and 
rules remain like they have in the past, which seem to not have a problem 
with games that have already been seen in public being entered.

On November 11, 2005 01:50 pm, Mike Schoessow wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> One other thing I forgot to mention yesterday concerns the board layout. It
> seems to me that this game would work fine with a random layout of tiles.
> The advantage of this is that the setup is faster; no need to sort tiles.
>
> I am interested in hearing your response to my idea of spacing the tiles
> apart to accomodate the placing of dominoes. Did that make sense or was I
> just not undestanding something about the layout?
>
> -Mike