shinjuku

Playtest #55

Fri 6 Dec 2019

Participants: Adam B, Gary K

Testing:

• During Move, customers must cross at least one rail
• Score: 1 pt / customer
• During Final round, no need to spend cards for actions

Comments

Stopped game with 24 customers remaining

A: Re: Must move across rail

• frustrating thematically
  • why not just walk
  • why not just visit store
• can’t take a single customer
  • but you can make groups with drop anywhere
• worse situation if you have a store in same location as customer
  • singles get stuck

Suggestion:

• Can match single customers
• Remaining customers must move along rail if they can

How to describe:

• Play move card to walk to station in ward
• match store there if possible
• remaining customers must move along track (if possible)

Extended Move:

• after move, can play card that matches end location
  • to pick up customers and move again
  • this allows to pick up customers along the way

Distributing points on customers

• How to make the customer choice more interesting
• instead of 1 & 2 (which is a big jump)
  • use 2,3,4,5
• different range for each customer type
  • food 1-3
  • video 3-5

Scoring

• set collection
  • 4-set, 3-set, 2-set

• scoring could be based on # of stores on board

• should players be allowed to make Moves that are worth 0 points?
  • why not? useful for grouping, but it’s expensive

Must move across at least one rail

• Prevents turtle moves like Ota just taking 1 customer and dropping rest in same spot. Here they would need to move 1 of the customers to Shinagawa or Minato.
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• Single customers can be stuck until another customer joins them
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  • Here the Electronics store is stuck even though every store can satisfy

Suggestions/Actions

Todo:

• Allow remaining customers to be dropped anywhere
• Require Move to use track
• Put customer paid for dept store back in bag