shinjuku

Playtest #62

Thu 19 Dec 2019

Participants: Jeff B, Sverre R, Gary K

Testing:

• 3-player
• Remove Upgrade action
  • Upgrade during match when that store gains a cuatomer
  • Player pays card but keeps customer
• gain 4 vp for each dept store
• customer queue is expanded based on number of dept stores:

Dept Stores	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
2-player Queue	2	2	3	3	4	4	5	5	6
3-player Queue	2	2	2	3	3	4	4	5	5
4-player Queue	2	2	2	2	3	3	4	4	5

Played with 3-player queue size

Comments

The ramp for 3-player felt too slow. When we hit 4 dept stores, we changed to:

Dept Stores	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
3-player Queue	2	2	2	3	4	4	5	5	6

Adjusting customer ramp:

• move to 3 customers one step earlier?
• move faster: # customers in queue = # of dept stores?

Note: when describing the rule that customers must cross track if possible

• Can it be phrased as “can’t drop back into the same spot”
• because that rule would affect some locations
• e.g., Chiyoda, where you can pick up in one station, follow track and drop back in Chiyoda.
• Is that OK? Or is it easier to describe this as “you must cross track”
• “must cross track” feels more thematic

Score:

	Jeff		Sverre		Gary
depts	2	x4 = 8	2	x4 = 8	2	x4 = 8
4-sets	4	x3 = 12	1	x3 = 3	5	x3 = 15
3-sets	0	x2 = 0	7	x2 = 14	1	x2 = 1
2-sets	2	x1 = 2	0	x1 = 0	0	x1 = 0
double	10	x2 = 20	5	x2 = 10	9	x2 = 18
single	11	x1 = 11	18	x1 = 18	15	x1 = 15
total		53		53		56

Jeff:

• “No useful feedback” “awesome”
• strategic; not super deep
• had agency. knew what was going on
• liked not allowing “turtle” moves
  • turtle = pickup; take single customer; drop in same location
• no feel-bad moments in game
  • no times when I was stuck with no useful cards

Sverre:

• always had cards
• game kept moving
• would be nice if the ramp went faster

Suggestions/Actions

next:

• test again with Upgrade during Move