ah, I can see twong’s stab coming now (floating CO)
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I guess you don’t finish the set of OR’s in GA? I thought there would be another OR
How was that for folks?
I enjoyed the experience, though I found that it caused me more angst than tabletop games normally do. Maybe in part because it was a long drawn-out experience so each move had a feeling of weight that it wouldn’t otherwise.
That and knowing that the wrong move or not sufficiently anticipating the moves of others can easily lead to a trainwreck (so to speak) that’s hard to recover from.
My first instinct is to think that I could do better if I played again, but I’m not sure that’s really the case aside from maybe avoiding some obvious errors.
In the end, it doesn’t matter that you’ve led companies to success and set up helpful routes. It only matters whether you have more money than the next person. Perhaps the same could be said of all most board games, but it stands out here in particular.
I noticed that the favicon for that site changes to reflect the status of the game. It seems to turn red when it’s your turn and when the game ends, but is that really possible with a bookmark? Maybe it’s only after you load the page. I’ll try to remember to check next time.
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I may never have highlighted: you can have 18xx.games send you emails or discord messages.
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money isn’t sentimental, you can’t retire on good vibes
Irish Gauge is a bit less heartless and more collaborative, quite fun when you can’t commit to a multi-hour mild economic simulation
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I’m usually 50% on predicting moves (30% for Infernarl & the group of sharks in the regular play group). recovery is possible but you have to know what your options are (train rush and force-buy a diesel, repeated stock trashing, aggressive track and token placement, company dump after stripping the trains and treasury)
eventually you start recognising the lead-up to getting yourself into a bad state & avoid stepping into it. am on my 4th recent game of 1830 and have just about learned which companies are easy to grow value with
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You did tell me about the e-mail notifications, and that’s what I use. And I just confirmed that (of course) it doesn’t change the bookmark icon for your turn until you visit the page.
I played this once. I liked the look of it but found the game an unpleasant experience. Not the fun and chaotic kind of punishing but the monotonous kind. Could have just been a bad first impression, though.
That said, a few months ago I played an even more stripped down game of this type that I thought was fun (not quite fun enough to buy, but I’d play it again): Northern Pacific.
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The metered train buy I think is not good. Sure it puts some safety rails on the game but it makes it sooo slow to get rolling. If this is for new players, you want them to have a good time when they play too. I can’t remember playing a game that went to OR 9 before.
…I have played too many Knizia auction games. Irish Gauge would be pretty tedious if you had no internal quantitative analyst telling you how much each company’s stock is worth. THATS FUN RIGHT
think metered train buy is so people can have a chance at the track game. to that, I say “2 player 1830 is fast and a great learning opportunity”
well should we roll another one?
ill play this game with people in the fleshzone but i cant think at a computer with a thousand distractions and i need to talk shit to your faces
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I could bring 18USA to the meetup to compete with the endless diplomacy game
~12 hours
12 hours of my precious four days with 50 people is a lot. ill get wrecked by you and tim next time i visit tho
I don’t actually want to do that (This is a different and much better game from 18C2C)
IS THE MAP HUGE?