by Tommaso 73
StormKnight wrote:
Our opinion based on games played so far was that the game weighed toward the player who went first, and that the player who went first tended to have more viable choices, while the player going last had the fewest choices. I see you did use the variable turn order values, so that might mitigate that a little.
I might try to change the order and see what happens. With 2 AIs that do no skip turns it won't matter much anyhow. Pretty tricky to measure.
StormKnight wrote:
The opinion so far has also been that there are more choices with fewer players; I personally am looking at playing Tokaido as mostly a 4 player game, so I wonder how it compares there.
I focused on the 3 player because I was sure the board was optimized for that player count (with 2p you play with a dummy and use 3 token nonetheless). 4p, I'm not sure, maybe the board is optimized for 5 and you need a dummy as well...
StormKnight wrote:
Your score was pretty close to one of the AIs - only 7 points apart. Would a single choice on the part of the AI have swung it the other way?
A single choice... I don't think so. A couple... definitely, but that was the point of the test: choices matter! And you win/lose the game based on your choices. Yes, many times during the game I had the feeling that a human would do much better than an AI, e.g. blocking my last card for panoramas... but again IMO that means there is strategy in the game.