by bop517
rahdo wrote:
Wow. I clearly misread the rules, and my wife and I have been playing 2p for the last half year (probably around 9 games in total) in the way that seems "logical" to us... where you have to pay 1 franc interest for each and every loan you've got out. So we generally never go over 2 or 3 loans, and pay them off as quickly as we can.
I suppose we should try the "proper rules", but this "1 franc to cover all loans" sounds crazy overpowered to us, considering we're used to playing something that is a bit more "like real life", and we like the challenge level where it's a big risk to take loans. Under what circumstances would you NOT just ignore food and take loan after loan after loan with this system. That just feels insanely overpowered, to the point where if you're not swimming in loans, you're playing the game "wrong"
We generally score in the low to mid 200's btw. The game we just finished this evening ended 259 to 247.
Will have to give some thought as to whether we'll start playing "correctly", but I worry it will so weaken the core challenge of the game to largely ignore food, and blithely carry 10 or 12 loans at a time that we'll lose a lot of our love for the game... :soblue:
I suppose we should try the "proper rules", but this "1 franc to cover all loans" sounds crazy overpowered to us, considering we're used to playing something that is a bit more "like real life", and we like the challenge level where it's a big risk to take loans. Under what circumstances would you NOT just ignore food and take loan after loan after loan with this system. That just feels insanely overpowered, to the point where if you're not swimming in loans, you're playing the game "wrong"
We generally score in the low to mid 200's btw. The game we just finished this evening ended 259 to 247.
Will have to give some thought as to whether we'll start playing "correctly", but I worry it will so weaken the core challenge of the game to largely ignore food, and blithely carry 10 or 12 loans at a time that we'll lose a lot of our love for the game... :soblue:
Wow. We did the same as you (just played this past weekend). You had to pay a buck for each loan at interest time. Also, apparently, missed the rule where you could only take loans when you were forced to. We had always played you can take a loan when you want (to purchase). I couldn't get out of the cycle once I took two loans to get a special building to benefit me during the game. Never had anyone go hog wild on loans. I'm still under the assumption that if you have them at the game, you subtract 7 from your final total for each loan.
