Butterfly Effect: Evolve Your Present

Monday, February 19, 2007

Damn these loopholes!

Okay, so the playtests today (thanks Ryan and Lily for running those!) revealed a pretty big loophole: a player can place a piece in the past, move it in the same turn (based on the turn order), and then propogate on their next turn onto a city. Then, in that same second turn, the player can move another piece in the past onto a city, thus setting up the win condition. What this boils down to is, a clever player could win the game in 2-3 turns and BREAKS THE GAME.

We don't want a broken game. So, the solution is to reorder the turn breakdown. Players must move pieces on the board BEFORE they can put new ones down. This keeps a brand new piece from being immediately mobile (and shifting it's propogation pattern closer to the win).

Also, after much convoluted discussion about the relative probabilities of the Camouflage card, we've decided to not change it, but reword it slightly on the card so that its use is more clear.

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