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#19382: "Optional auction system to choose characters."
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Suggestion: in my opinion, the following would greatly improve the game implementation
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Hello, I'm playing my first Marco Polo game on BGA, but I've played many live.
I think a big improvement to this online version would be an option to choose the characters via an auction system (with travel tickets already in hand): characters in Marco Polo can be really unbalanced, also depending on the setup.
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Safari v13.1
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Jun 16th 2020 14:45 • Oberon1980 • This suggestion has not been analyzed by the developers yet:
In my opinion, the system could be similar, for example, to the one implemented in the BGA versions of Clans of Caledonia or Terra Mystica, and totally optional of course. But it would be particularly useful for tournaments and arena.
Jul 20th 2020 17:51 • ABY1977 • This suggestion has not been analyzed by the developers yet:
how do I bid at an auction? I am against it, because in addition to the choice of characters, there is also the order of the turn and the number of coins. Is the order of the move also being put up for auction?
Sep 2nd 2020 22:32 • PurpleLurple • This suggestion has not been analyzed by the developers yet:
I agree. In this game (cardboard, not virtual), you get a choice of 2 at the start of the game.
Mar 31st 2021 21:24 • awsiddons • This suggestion has not been analyzed by the developers yet:
I've played several two-player games and we just get the same two characters each time (Matteo and Sinan). I thought this was only in training mode, but it happens even in normal mode. Greatly reduces deployability.
Mar 31st 2021 21:29 • hersh • This suggestion has not been analyzed by the developers yet:
@awsiddons : you have to toggle expert variant to yes.
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