Reply: Scythe:: Variants:: Re: variant rules on star objectives

by redmonc

SJS1971 wrote:

aerendhil wrote:

What are your thoughts on those ? is it going too far ?

Rather than alter all of the micro-bonuses of Build and Enlist, you could simply give a bounty for certain stars to make them worth more. For example, if you think the hardest star is Popularity, and the next one is Upgrade, and then Build, give a player a $10 reward for a Popularity star, a $8 reward for an Upgrade star, and a $6 reward for a Build star.

This actually doesn't work. Putting a $10 bounty on the popularity star doesn't help the true problem: getting the popularity star is too slow. Putting a bounty on it just makes it high-risk-high-reward to go for the popularity star. If you go for the popularity star and the bounty, you will be spending considerable effort to get it and you might get it, or more likely everyone else will ignore it and end the game and all your efforts were waisted.