Wow I completely missed that the results had come out. Gz Tabako and tyvm for modding Sopo!

Oh and fwiw, if I'd had $500 more I would've been so very bitter. I accidently bought an R&D guy when I couldn't even use him cos it was too late in the game, so I effectively wasted $2000. Even with that I woulda still been 2nd though, so it's ok

Am I being too rash in excluding OTI from the final standings? It won't be difficult to add him back in.

Thanks for running this sopo!

Some Design Notes

I made R&D units way too powerful, imo. Buying 4 R&D units at the beginning of the game would have given +60 units/turn/expansion and reduced collapse risk to almost nothing up to 400 units/turn. But then, I expected people to build out their mines to the 600-700 unit/turn mark instead of 300-400 units/turn most players did.

I could have made Engineer units a little more powerful. I ended up removing the reduced mine collapse risk from the unit, but I nerfed the chance of collapse when mining. By the end of the game, only 4 players had a mining disaster, and only 1 of those lost more than 10 units/turn of mine.

I liked what I did with the I.E. units. I wanted them to be +EV to buy, and I think I did that without overpowering them. Maybe I could have made them a little more powerful, given how poorly the IE-heavy players fared, but I think those players missed that I was going only going to let them steal from one player per turn until very late in the game. I liked the touch of PMing the I.E. operations to the players that bought them. I originally made a gimmick to send the PMs, but that eventually got dropped because it was easier to send them from this account.

POG Championship Points

tabako - 6 points
IFlatTheNuts - 4 points
Zurvan - 2 points
AceRimmer - 1 point

very good game. but i wish players had more knowledge of things instead of so many blanks. like whats teh chance of successful operation etc. what info would be public at end of days etc. what point would it be too hard to expand etc.

Well, my mine collapsed 25 units. Yay me (I guess).

If I had to do this again (same rules), I might expand one more turn to get near 600. Thanks again for running this!

I really enjoyed the game concept here sopo. Thanks for running it.

Agree that more info to the player would be better.

I understand this. At the same time, I didn't want to turn the game into a math problem, so I erred on the side of not giving enough information.

It might have been a good idea to give more information as players bought more R&D/Engineer units.

But then, I did have a hard enough time making sure the PMs I was sending out were correct. The spreadsheet I made wasn't up to the task.

Can you make sure I get an extra 6 championship points for my expert joker card usage?

Yes!

yes

TY Drontier!