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So far, I don’t think that anyone’s upgrades have affected the outcomes of any matches. There have been a few shenanigans, but they have all been fairly cosmetic, if you ask me.
Also, I got internet back. Updating soon!
I didn’t think the upgrades could impact the outcome of the match…?
They can’t, you’re right. I think the only big issue here is your point about playing best of threes. I’m still not sure how to address that. I don’t want people to feel pressured to play best of threes when they simply don’t have the time for it.
There are upgrades that can boost scores, but there are also upgrades that can destroy upgrades. I think that winning matches is way more important than gaining upgrades. At least, that’s my intent. I just don’t see the upgrades as leading to a snowballing effect.
As far as I can tell from the rules, none of this effects the individual results, i.e. Only wins count toward individual results, playoff qualification, etc. Is that right?
On the team results, though, it’s borked. Your reward and scoring system concentrates the impact of victories, which was the problem in Dis with the individual scoring. And the reward mechanism for one team basically rewards winning, while the reward mechanism for the other teams requires more than victories.
But of course people can just ignore the team stuff. Which I will henceforth do.
SR15:
Mithrophon over Beatrix +53/-19 = 72, achieved the basic Red bonus by banishing precisely 5 starter cards
Men Without Helmets, on a roll…
Repost:
Beatrix 2 > K_Wattington -4
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SR15
Beatrix > Ineffablebob
Last game 33 -6 with exactly 25 dmg
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I suppose that the reason I’ve never become a really good SR player is that I can’t quite figure out what is the difference between the decisions I make and those made by Mithropon, Holsten, etc.
For example: vs Mith, early in the game. Trade row has Blob World, Brain World, Command Ship, War World and Mech World. Mith has the Needle (he went 2nd - nothing I could have done about that one), but nothing much else so far. I played the blob ‘scrap for 3 trade’ thing. I could have saved it and had a reasonable chance at pulling 8 trade next turn, or I could scrap it and buy the mech world. I have a Patrol Mech and a couple of explorers. I figure I still have a decent chance of pulling Patrol + Explorer + 3 scouts (or the other explorer), while Mith has nothing currently that could add up to 8. Nor does he have enough damage to kill the Mech World, so it should be able to stay up for at least a couple of turns until he buys more damage, which would be hard with the trade row clogged with 8-cost cards.
So I buy the Mech World. And a Freighter replaces it - blowing up my whole plan and probably losing the game (and match).
I assume the pros would have just bought an Explorer and used the 3 trade the next turn - but why? Is is a simple matter of “don’t try to figure the odds, just assume that the next card up will be exactly the one that screws you”?
I would have bought the Mech World also. But I suck :-/
News from Sector 02
rob > K_Wattington
15 to -1 : No goal achieved.
@ron hard to tell without knowing the complete decks, but this just sounds like bad luck. I do consider not to buy anything (or just explorer) if I see my opponent can’t afford any card, to avoid revealing good cards for him.
I guess I would have saved the green base for a real good card (I don’t like the mech world so much), but that is easy to say with knowing the result. And your choice was not wrong ;-)
SR 15: holsten > wattington, 44:-17, difference 61. Dealing 43 damage in the last turn. I guess basic green goal
Too many matches at the same time, can’t remember much about this one. Except I had luck the last 2 turn with drawing all viper and scout, leaving me with all good cards on the last turn. GG
[B]SR15
Beatrix > Robthommason
11 -24 last turn 29 dmg for green basic goal
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SR15:
Mithrophon over Ron
I won +39/-2 = 41, but I forgot it was our last game, and I didn’t scrap for 10 more points that I had.
No goals met.
FWIW, Ron, I like the Mech World a lot.
For my reference, since Star Realms deletes older games from the archive:
Beat Beatrix w/ basic bonus
Beat delirium
Beat DennyA
Beat fire
Beat robthomasson
Beat Rob
Lost to Thraeg
Series with Annie (1 game) underway
Challenging Holsten next
SR15:
Mithrophon over DennyA +40/-1 = 41
No bonus achieved.
And by soon, I meant in 8 hours, after I did this 'n that! Updating now…
Mith finds:
o Lost Colonists: Add 3 to team score.
Mithrophon, leave them in Sector 03 or swap?
Mithrophon is in Sector 04 and his ship Men Without Helmets has these upgrades:
o Repair Module: (1x) Prevent the destruction of another of your upgrades.
o Headquarters: At the end, boost (by 2) the points earned by each team member in your final sector.
o Green Jewel: The Green team score increases by 1-3-6-10 (etc) based on the total number of Green jewels owned by all of the Green team members at the end of the adventure.
