by mabouche
Hey all.Have been enjoying Le Havre on iOS tremendously since it came out. That's such a huge benefit of iOS - as a gamer geek that sadly doesn't have a game group to play live with (or the time to do it), getting a chance to play games like this that I've been dying to play is such a treat. Look forward to more for that reason. These days I'm either playing games that actually hold up solo (like Mage Knight - are there any other solo games that hold up? Is Le Havre actually fun solo? Can you play on iOS solo? Haven't tried that yet), or I'm feverishly download iOS board game apps.
That said, I've played 20-25 or so iOS Le Havre so far, and while I'm consistently winning the 2 and 3 games (long version) even on the hardest AI levels, my scores are still typically only in the mid 100's. [My favorite win was me: 123, AI negative 23]. When I look at the geek forums for what to expect for a 'good score', I should be well over 200, even into the 300's. Am I missing something? I haven't seen the AI get anywhere near that either - best AI score I've seen is 200. Is that normal? Have other people seen average/good scores much higher than that for 2 or 3 player games?
Am I that bad? Couple of things I've noticed so far:
- While some forums suggest that the less players, the higher the scores, I've seen that the 3 player games open up more points potential than the 2 player games because of the buildings offered.
- The short version of the game has less points potential than the longer version. Any ideas what a 'good score' would be for short games?
- I'm assuming one of the things I'm doing 'wrong' is I need to be shipping mo' coke! Seems like that's the big secret on upping scores, and I admittedly haven't been doing that enough.
Any other strategy ideas? I'm sure I'll see my scores rise as I continue to get better, but so far it's been slow going.