by dizzark
Zark wrote:
Alexfrog wrote:
Scores below 80 simply should not win this game with good players. (From my 4 player experience). Anyone who thinks any strategy is 'overpowered' because ZOMG I scored 65 points with it and won the game, simply has inexperienced opponents. :)
Actually it is probably down to the way your group play, with less workers there is less opportunity to jump up the gears as they don't get so filled so less actions will get taken during a game and scores will be lower.
I only used Uxmal once to exchange goods before building and only used the corn gear twice I think to take 4 wood and to take 4 corn. The rest of my corn came from taking start player, buildings and begging. 2 of the other players also only had 4 men. This makes a corn strategy less successful as your extra men just end up filling the gaps on the gear but still need feeding (the player who perused it in our game did not win).
However if 3 people pursue a corn strategy it is unlikely that the 4th will prevail against them, so maybe your group will never get to play the way my group play
Just because you get high score does not necessarily mean you are playing better, there are many games where playing nicely, or group think result in higher scores.
Well , it is true that each single game is different from each other and final scoring depends on number of players and kind of strategies. I also want to point out that the way people play compared to each other can have a great influence to the final scoring, not only for different experience level, but also for how much they try to screw each other or just follow their own path.
I might want to buy a monument that doesn't maximize my strategy i.e. I score much less points then if I had built a different one, but I took it from another player who would have scored an insane amount of points doing it...
I make an example: The monument that gives 4 points per corn tile is out. Toward the end of the game, I have only 2 corn tiles, while one my opponent has say 8 corn tiles. I could make say 20 points taking another monument, but if my opponent take the corn one he would score 32 points winning the game. So knowing he made a massive corn strategy and canno score many points with another monument, I decide to take the corn one that gives me only 8 points!!! But this way I screw my main opponent.
It is evident that both of us scored much less points this way, and not because we played poorly, but on the contrary because I played smart.
The one above is just an example, but I also have to say that is a big exeption to the fact that a normal scoring for good players is always above 80s...
Actually if you play really well you can consistentely score over 100, but among strong tzolking players is hard to win if you score less then 90 points ;)