by mdp4828
No. But in my experience those were pretty uniformly distributed so they kinda wash out. But even including them shouldn't change the expectation much.For example, the large panorama. You score 1+2+3+4+5 = 15 / 5 stops = 3 points per stop. If you get the bonus you score 18 / 5 = 3.6 points per stop. But if you skipped any spaces to get that bonus, you likely gave up another bonus to another player.
Looked at another way. If you are down to the final panorama spot and you have 4 panorama tiles you may be tempted to skip two spots for the 8 points. But in skipping those two spots you give them to your opponent for free. If he gets 2.5 points per spot and a bonus because of them... that's 8 points.
If, however, you take the next available spot for 2.5 points and your opponent skips 1 spot to block the panorama from your (let's say he scored the 3 on that move), then you get that extra spot for free (let's say 2.5 points again). The first scenario (where you skip spots) is 8-8. The second scenario is 5-3 in your favor and that's not even considering you might get an extra 3 point bonus for not skipping.
I think the bottom line is the spots are uniform enough that MORE spots are going to beat the marginal gain of FEWER spots, probably almost every time.