Reply: Terra Mystica:: General:: Re: Faction rebalancing seems pretty trivial in this game...

by sthrjo

Adding VP makes the low-end races more competitive for sure, but they will remain relatively helpless during the play. Alternatively, if the races get a proper balance boost by lowering some cost or increasing some income, they will also become more fun to play with during the entire game, not only when the end-game VP is compared. Fakirs are fun if they can launch their flying carpets, and a small boost of income can do that. Assymetric victory conditions is only the obvious solution if the Fakirs are supposed to be inferior during the game, like a historic wargame where the loosing side shall lose the battle, but can win the game by loosing with a minimal margin. There is no reason to have such low-end races in TM, they are supposed to be balanced by the design, but snellman statistics have given us the facts.