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SeabassDebeste 12/31/19 9:25:46 AM #68:	122. Innovation (2010) Category: Player vs Player Genres: Card game, tableau-building Rules complexity (0 to 7): 4 Game length: 60 minutes Experience: 2 plays (2017-18), 3 and 2 players Previous ranks: NR (2016), NR (2018) Summary - Innovation is entirely a card game - both players draw from a big deck and attempt to play those cards into their tableaus and advance their technology fastest. Improved tableaus give stronger abilities. Players race to be the first to complete milestones. Design - Innovation is pretty sophisticated, with loaded but attractive cards and interesting ways to meld and splay cards - i.e. overlap them but reveal one edge, which gives a power, or reveal another edge, which has different power. My biggest source of annoyance was the Milestone scoring mechanic; in order to score, you have to be first to a Milestone. But accomplishing one Milestone puts you by default closer to the next Milestone than the players behind you. Experience - That runaway leader effect was present in both games I played. In the first, the owner of the game won handily with four or so Milestones while the rest of us combined for one (and I believe I had zero). The next game I was also steamrolled. Obviously there was a skill gap, but (and this doesnt happen that often these days) there also felt like a massive comprehension gap. During my two plays I could never quite grasp Innovation. Could never get cards of the right suit, never really felt combos materialize, never felt like I was competing meaningfully. Its kind of easy to be salty and bash on a game, but I didnt even get Innovation. Future - I think I want to like Innovation. Its clever, and people I personally know (including the one who pasted me twice) like it a lot. It just seems like theres perhaps too steep a learning curve, too much going on, to try that with someone whos advanced compared to me. Maybe as a couples game it is only $17 on Amazon if that happened, Id expect this to rise a lot. --- yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness <cite>SeabassDebeste posted [p:932277260] in another ye... [t:78284791]...</cite> <quote>122. Innovation (2010) Category: Player vs Player Genres: Card game, tableau-building Rules complexity (0 to 7): 4 Game length: 60 minutes Experience: 2 plays (2017-18), 3 and 2 players Previous ranks: NR (2016), NR (2018) Summary - Innovation is entirely a card game - both players draw from a big deck and attempt to play those cards into their tableaus and advance their technology fastest. Improved tableaus give stronger abilities. Players race to be the first to complete milestones. Design - Innovation is pretty sophisticated, with loaded but attractive cards and interesting ways to meld and splay cards - i.e. overlap them but reveal one edge, which gives a power, or reveal another edge, which has different power. My biggest source of annoyance was the Milestone scoring mechanic; in order to score, you have to be first to a Milestone. But accomplishing one Milestone puts you by default closer to the next Milestone than the players behind you. Experience - That runaway leader effect was present in both games I played. In the first, the owner of the game won handily with four or so Milestones while the rest of us combined for one (and I believe I had zero). The next game I was also steamrolled. Obviously there was a skill gap, but (and this doesnt happen that often these days) there also felt like a massive comprehension gap. During my two plays I could never quite grasp Innovation. Could never get cards of the right suit, never really felt combos materialize, never felt like I was competing meaningfully. Its kind of easy to be salty and bash on a game, but I didnt even get Innovation. Future - I think I want to like Innovation. Its clever, and people I personally know (including the one who pasted me twice) like it a lot. It just seems like theres perhaps too steep a learning curve, too much going on, to try that with someone whos advanced compared to me. Maybe as a couples game it is only $17 on Amazon if that happened, Id expect this to rise a lot. --- yet all sailors of all sorts are more or less capricious and unreliable - they live in the varying outer weather, and they inhale its fickleness</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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