Ok I just wonder how I get negative points because I take territories but don't get a lucky stack. Maby this scoring system will prove valuable in the long run, I saw it work ok in one game today but so far I am not pleased.

The dominance is calculated on the countries you have when you START you turn, not when you finished.

As you correctly observed, to attack all too much and spreading thin is not rewarded.

Fuzzycat, this is the main problem with the new scoring. Having bad luck in your first turn, you don't have a chance to come back, because you're eaten by the territory chasers. You may have a bit of luck and can grow a good pile, but you can never get back to a pointworthy dominance.

This was my complaint when testing the new socing in the sandbox: The game is dedicated after a maximum of tree rounds.

Germanic - the new scoring system DOES NOT REWARD foolish aggressive play. I'm not just directing this at you, i'm hopefully reaching as many people are possible.

Aggressive play is good - meaning don't idle with 2 lands in the corner and watch the game.

HOWEVER - it is a perfectly good strategy to pass a few rounds in a row if you have 4 or 5 lands and bulk up a little bit.

Remember, dominance and AS are calculated as an average... so if you have 3 lands early for four rounds, but build up and have 9 lands later for four rounds, your average is 6, pretty damn good.


see my point?

people have yet to develop good strategies with the new scoring and I've seen some horribly poor decisions lately on some of the boards due to an overreaction.

Essentially, you do still want to play conservatively / smart. Reckless and too-quick expansion always has and continues to be a VERY dangerous line to tread.

@ mehdorn:

Not true at all. At least at the moment. And if you can't win you will have to find secondary strategies to get points.

You can actually start with two 8-dice-stacks and win the game. This will still be possible, not very likely though.