shinjuku
Playtest #50
Wed 6 Nov 2019
Participants: Josh Y, Adam, Gary
Comments
Testing:
- Placing double-customers in separate locations (instead of placing both in the same location)
J: why not order the actions? (Re: the rule that Income must be the last action in a turn)
- Adds rule complexity. Is it worth it?
- A: could add a rondelle - perhaps an expansion
J: For the last half I wanted to do something but wasn’t able to do it. Trying to get more video games. Probably should have tried for books.
- Didn’t have a customer dist reference to know that Video Games were rare. There probably weren’t any more to get.
Impact of having double-customers sent to different locations:
- Smaller clumps. Didn’t have a clump of 4 and only as clumps of 3
- Fewer big gunshot moments.
Having more customers in the game:
- Perhaps try having more customers but arrive more often
- Have a customer that draws extras customers. There is an expansion for that. Should it be brought into core.
- How many customers would be needed to start the game with 2 customer draws
- How would that affect the game timer/timing?
What is Fun in this game?
- Big moves across board
- Needing to give other players a customer
A: A crazy change:
- Another free action: “walk” move customers
- Like in Kaiju
- Feels too big for a free action
- Or move just a single customer
- That would address the problem with single customers on the board not worth picking up
Scores (single/double = total):
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 |
 |
 |
Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gary | 0/2 = 4 | 0/2 = 4 | ~2/1 = 4~ | 1/2 = 5 | 13 |
| Josh | 2/2 = 6 | ~3/2 = 7~ | 0/0 = 0 | 2/0 = 2 | 8 |
| Adam | 2/1 = 4 | 2/0 = 2 | 1/1 = 3 | ~3/1 = 5~ | 9 |
Suggestions/Actions
Todo:
- Revert to placing 2 customers in same location
- Consider adding more customers