by louper
While most of my plays are at 2p, I do have some at 3p and I don't remember many times where the building stacks get completely empty at all, let alone 2/3 of the way through the game.As you note, of course, in a 2p game there are approximately the same number of buildings (maybe exactly, I don't recall), but fewer players. That leads to each player getting more actions and, you'd think, be able to ramp up quicker (in terms of rounds). However, each player also needs to supply more food to his workers in a 2p game than in a 3p game, so I'd think that offsets the "extra" actions relative to a 3p game.
I'd wager that maybe there was some gameplay error that resulted in your skewed experience in the 3p game.
I think there are 30 buildings in the building stacks. In 12 full rounds, there are 84 turns. This means 1 building is being built every 2.8 turns - in other words, in every "round" (in which each player gets 1 turn), at least 1 player is building a building? That seems... unreasonable. Most buildings require 2 different resources and some require 3 different resources. I don't see how building a building on your every third turn, on average, is possible.
But I could be way off.
And 3.5 hours is too long if you're "refilling spaces and quickly doing an action."
But again, that's just based on my experience. Sorry I'm so long-winded!
