#115882: "Add Faction Bans / Fast Auction or Both"
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Terra Nova is an incredibly balanced game. I do believe it has by far the best balance in this family of games, however it can always get better.
My suggestion is to do one of 3 things as options in the game:
1. Implement faction bans in player order (in planner variant those go after the initial placement of neutral faction)
2. Gaia project style fast auction
3. Both
I know the rules for that are not in the rulebook, but neither are there in the Gaia Project and yet they are available on the website. The birthplace of that options was a request like this one, so hopefully we can get this done. Link to Gaia Project request: boardgamearena.com/bug?id=52587 and relevant information after it has been implemented:
"Happy Saturday morning. We've completed the implementation of new features that include banning, drafting, and auctions. We've also been in touch with the publisher to receive approval of these optional features.[..]"
I do believe fast auction would be more suited to the game than the standard Terra Mystica style auction.
We've played dozens of in house games with bans between top players and it works really, really well. Auction has been tried & tested for a long time in other games and bans have been tried & tested in Gaia Project. -
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Terra Nova is an incredibly balanced game. I do believe it has by far the best balance in this family of games, however it can always get better.
My suggestion is to do one of 3 things as options in the game:
1. Implement faction bans in player order (in planner variant those go after the initial placement of neutral faction)
2. Gaia project style fast auction
3. Both
I know the rules for that are not in the rulebook, but neither are there in the Gaia Project and yet they are available on the website. The birthplace of that options was a request like this one, so hopefully we can get this done. Link to Gaia Project request: boardgamearena.com/bug?id=52587 and relevant information after it has been implemented:
"Happy Saturday morning. We've completed the implementation of new features that include banning, drafting, and auctions. We've also been in touch with the publisher to receive approval of these optional features.[..]"
I do believe fast auction would be more suited to the game than the standard Terra Mystica style auction.
We've played dozens of in house games with bans between top players and it works really, really well. Auction has been tried & tested for a long time in other games and bans have been tried & tested in Gaia Project. -
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• Please explain your suggestion precisely and concisely so that it's as easy as possible to understand what you mean.
Terra Nova is an incredibly balanced game. I do believe it has by far the best balance in this family of games, however it can always get better.
My suggestion is to do one of 3 things as options in the game:
1. Implement faction bans in player order (in planner variant those go after the initial placement of neutral faction)
2. Gaia project style fast auction
3. Both
I know the rules for that are not in the rulebook, but neither are there in the Gaia Project and yet they are available on the website. The birthplace of that options was a request like this one, so hopefully we can get this done. Link to Gaia Project request: boardgamearena.com/bug?id=52587 and relevant information after it has been implemented:
"Happy Saturday morning. We've completed the implementation of new features that include banning, drafting, and auctions. We've also been in touch with the publisher to receive approval of these optional features.[..]"
I do believe fast auction would be more suited to the game than the standard Terra Mystica style auction.
We've played dozens of in house games with bans between top players and it works really, really well. Auction has been tried & tested for a long time in other games and bans have been tried & tested in Gaia Project. • Which browser are you using?
Google Chrome v121
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• What was displayed on the screen when you were blocked (Blank screen? Part of the game interface? Error message?)
Terra Nova is an incredibly balanced game. I do believe it has by far the best balance in this family of games, however it can always get better.
My suggestion is to do one of 3 things as options in the game:
1. Implement faction bans in player order (in planner variant those go after the initial placement of neutral faction)
2. Gaia project style fast auction
3. Both
I know the rules for that are not in the rulebook, but neither are there in the Gaia Project and yet they are available on the website. The birthplace of that options was a request like this one, so hopefully we can get this done. Link to Gaia Project request: boardgamearena.com/bug?id=52587 and relevant information after it has been implemented:
"Happy Saturday morning. We've completed the implementation of new features that include banning, drafting, and auctions. We've also been in touch with the publisher to receive approval of these optional features.[..]"
I do believe fast auction would be more suited to the game than the standard Terra Mystica style auction.
We've played dozens of in house games with bans between top players and it works really, really well. Auction has been tried & tested for a long time in other games and bans have been tried & tested in Gaia Project. • Which browser are you using?
Google Chrome v121
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• Which part of the rules was not followed by the BGA adaptation?
Terra Nova is an incredibly balanced game. I do believe it has by far the best balance in this family of games, however it can always get better.
My suggestion is to do one of 3 things as options in the game:
1. Implement faction bans in player order (in planner variant those go after the initial placement of neutral faction)
2. Gaia project style fast auction
3. Both
I know the rules for that are not in the rulebook, but neither are there in the Gaia Project and yet they are available on the website. The birthplace of that options was a request like this one, so hopefully we can get this done. Link to Gaia Project request: boardgamearena.com/bug?id=52587 and relevant information after it has been implemented:
"Happy Saturday morning. We've completed the implementation of new features that include banning, drafting, and auctions. We've also been in touch with the publisher to receive approval of these optional features.[..]"
I do believe fast auction would be more suited to the game than the standard Terra Mystica style auction.
We've played dozens of in house games with bans between top players and it works really, really well. Auction has been tried & tested for a long time in other games and bans have been tried & tested in Gaia Project. -
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• Which browser are you using?
Google Chrome v121
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• What was the game action you wanted to do?
Terra Nova is an incredibly balanced game. I do believe it has by far the best balance in this family of games, however it can always get better.
My suggestion is to do one of 3 things as options in the game:
1. Implement faction bans in player order (in planner variant those go after the initial placement of neutral faction)
2. Gaia project style fast auction
3. Both
I know the rules for that are not in the rulebook, but neither are there in the Gaia Project and yet they are available on the website. The birthplace of that options was a request like this one, so hopefully we can get this done. Link to Gaia Project request: boardgamearena.com/bug?id=52587 and relevant information after it has been implemented:
"Happy Saturday morning. We've completed the implementation of new features that include banning, drafting, and auctions. We've also been in touch with the publisher to receive approval of these optional features.[..]"
I do believe fast auction would be more suited to the game than the standard Terra Mystica style auction.
We've played dozens of in house games with bans between top players and it works really, really well. Auction has been tried & tested for a long time in other games and bans have been tried & tested in Gaia Project. -
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• Which browser are you using?
Google Chrome v121
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• At which step of the game did the problem occur? What was the current game instruction?
Terra Nova is an incredibly balanced game. I do believe it has by far the best balance in this family of games, however it can always get better.
My suggestion is to do one of 3 things as options in the game:
1. Implement faction bans in player order (in planner variant those go after the initial placement of neutral faction)
2. Gaia project style fast auction
3. Both
I know the rules for that are not in the rulebook, but neither are there in the Gaia Project and yet they are available on the website. The birthplace of that options was a request like this one, so hopefully we can get this done. Link to Gaia Project request: boardgamearena.com/bug?id=52587 and relevant information after it has been implemented:
"Happy Saturday morning. We've completed the implementation of new features that include banning, drafting, and auctions. We've also been in touch with the publisher to receive approval of these optional features.[..]"
I do believe fast auction would be more suited to the game than the standard Terra Mystica style auction.
We've played dozens of in house games with bans between top players and it works really, really well. Auction has been tried & tested for a long time in other games and bans have been tried & tested in Gaia Project. -
• What happened when you tried to do this game action (error message, game status bar message, ...)?
• Which browser are you using?
Google Chrome v121
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• Please describe the display issue. If you have a screenshot of this bug (good practice), you can use Imgur.com to upload it and copy/paste the link here.
Terra Nova is an incredibly balanced game. I do believe it has by far the best balance in this family of games, however it can always get better.
My suggestion is to do one of 3 things as options in the game:
1. Implement faction bans in player order (in planner variant those go after the initial placement of neutral faction)
2. Gaia project style fast auction
3. Both
I know the rules for that are not in the rulebook, but neither are there in the Gaia Project and yet they are available on the website. The birthplace of that options was a request like this one, so hopefully we can get this done. Link to Gaia Project request: boardgamearena.com/bug?id=52587 and relevant information after it has been implemented:
"Happy Saturday morning. We've completed the implementation of new features that include banning, drafting, and auctions. We've also been in touch with the publisher to receive approval of these optional features.[..]"
I do believe fast auction would be more suited to the game than the standard Terra Mystica style auction.
We've played dozens of in house games with bans between top players and it works really, really well. Auction has been tried & tested for a long time in other games and bans have been tried & tested in Gaia Project. • Which browser are you using?
Google Chrome v121
-
• Please copy/paste the text displayed in English instead of your language. If you have a screenshot of this bug (good practice), you can use Imgur.com to upload it and copy/paste the link here.
Terra Nova is an incredibly balanced game. I do believe it has by far the best balance in this family of games, however it can always get better.
My suggestion is to do one of 3 things as options in the game:
1. Implement faction bans in player order (in planner variant those go after the initial placement of neutral faction)
2. Gaia project style fast auction
3. Both
I know the rules for that are not in the rulebook, but neither are there in the Gaia Project and yet they are available on the website. The birthplace of that options was a request like this one, so hopefully we can get this done. Link to Gaia Project request: boardgamearena.com/bug?id=52587 and relevant information after it has been implemented:
"Happy Saturday morning. We've completed the implementation of new features that include banning, drafting, and auctions. We've also been in touch with the publisher to receive approval of these optional features.[..]"
I do believe fast auction would be more suited to the game than the standard Terra Mystica style auction.
We've played dozens of in house games with bans between top players and it works really, really well. Auction has been tried & tested for a long time in other games and bans have been tried & tested in Gaia Project. -
• Is this text available in the translation system? If yes, has it been translated for more than 24 hours?
• Which browser are you using?
Google Chrome v121
-
• Please explain your suggestion precisely and concisely so that it's as easy as possible to understand what you mean.
Terra Nova is an incredibly balanced game. I do believe it has by far the best balance in this family of games, however it can always get better.
My suggestion is to do one of 3 things as options in the game:
1. Implement faction bans in player order (in planner variant those go after the initial placement of neutral faction)
2. Gaia project style fast auction
3. Both
I know the rules for that are not in the rulebook, but neither are there in the Gaia Project and yet they are available on the website. The birthplace of that options was a request like this one, so hopefully we can get this done. Link to Gaia Project request: boardgamearena.com/bug?id=52587 and relevant information after it has been implemented:
"Happy Saturday morning. We've completed the implementation of new features that include banning, drafting, and auctions. We've also been in touch with the publisher to receive approval of these optional features.[..]"
I do believe fast auction would be more suited to the game than the standard Terra Mystica style auction.
We've played dozens of in house games with bans between top players and it works really, really well. Auction has been tried & tested for a long time in other games and bans have been tried & tested in Gaia Project. • Which browser are you using?
Google Chrome v121
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Thanks to the developers for their hard work so far on this stellar implementation, my wish is to only get this even better so more people can enjoy this great game and it can get the respect it deserves! :)
boardgamearena.com/table?table=485203548 (-5 for the winner Inventors)
boardgamearena.com/table?table=485207151 (-3 for the winner Sand Cats)
I have plenty of replays for the bans as well if needed, played against top players.
It's having 0, 1 or 2 opponents playing an adjacent color.
So I don't think that the TM auction is actually the best to balance as you are bidding without necessarily knowing how many adjacent colors will be played to each of the popular factions.
So I would prefer that the colors to be played are chosen randomly (1 per player) and then players bid for those colors. And I guess we might as well link turn order with the faction.
This way, you know how difficult it will be to get those territories for each faction.
The TM auction system would make Terra Nova an actually competitive game. Currently, with no point-balancing mechanism like an auction, it is a casual game because there are such huge imbalances between the best and worst factions.
Maybe it's not in the official rulebook, but all this game needs to explode in numbers and be played by the TM community is an auction. It's a great game system, it just feels like the game is decided by faction select.
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