by xipuloxx
Irennicus wrote:
xipuloxx wrote:
The one thing that bugs me in this game is that you really need to understand what the buildings and knowledge tiles do, and there's just so many of them!
I mean honestly the way my girlfriend and I approached our first game was to simply look up what the yellow tiles were when they showed up as they showed up. For a first game this was absolutely fine, neither one of us was trying to get cut throat about anything, and I don't see why this couldn't be applied to other first-time games.
Sure, of course that's the obvious thing to do. That's what we did too. But only one player can have the rulebook at a time, and since there are so many different building and knowledge tiles, I kept forgetting exactly what benefit each one gave you when it came time to choose what to get with the numbers the dice had deigned to give me. ("Let's see, I can take the ... um, market? What does that do again?")
:D
And it's not just the first game. I still don't remember what the market does, for example! It just seems to me that individual player reference sheets would have been a sensible thing to include. Since they're not included, printing out one from BGG is a no-brainer for me.