shinjuku

Playtest #51

Thu 14 Nov 2019

Participants: Josh Y, Adam, Gary

Comments

Testing:

• New action: Move a single customer along a single segment of track - skipping stores
  • Can only move customer if they are alone in ward
  • Idea is to allow customers to be grouped my moving them together

Skipping stores feels odd

A: Does this rule change encourage suboptimal play?

Also, this is degenerate for 2 players:

• Can move customer back and forth
• cf. Ko rules in Go

A: change Move action - must satisfy at least 2 customers. To encourage bigger moves

A: Note: If small Move must follow track, then it can easily be moved back (because there is track).

• Small move is most useful as a 1st move followed by a real move.

J: “Gary, sometimes you make me sad”

New action is not powerful enough to use. Should a more powerful version be added/used?

Perhaps allowing a single customer to be extracted from a group and moved to a neighboring ward.

Scores (single/double = total):

					Score
Josh	1/3 = 7	~4/0 = 4~	3/0 = 3	3/1 = 5	15
Adam	~3/1 = 5~	2/2 = 6	1/3 = 7	1/0 = 1	14
Gary	1/2 = 5	1/2 = 5	~2/1 = 4~	1/1 = 3	13

Suggestions/Actions

None. Next playtest will be with new players.