Tuesday, October 20, 2009
The Benefit of doing nothing
I just squeaked out a Race for the Galaxy win over on the Genie server http://genie.game-host.org/main.htm.
Going into what looked like the last turn, my opponent had the lead, but no cards in hand. I had six cards, I think. There's no way that he could have known it, but I couldn't play enough points to catch him. I picked develop and settle which would get me close. However, he explored which gave me a nice planet instead of the low point one that I would have played.
In my opinion, he made the right play by exploring, hoping to play a card in whichever phase that I chose. In this case, it backfired. It's a little frustrating to be in the situation where you do the "right" thing in a game, but it proves not to be the case in that situation.
Going into what looked like the last turn, my opponent had the lead, but no cards in hand. I had six cards, I think. There's no way that he could have known it, but I couldn't play enough points to catch him. I picked develop and settle which would get me close. However, he explored which gave me a nice planet instead of the low point one that I would have played.
In my opinion, he made the right play by exploring, hoping to play a card in whichever phase that I chose. In this case, it backfired. It's a little frustrating to be in the situation where you do the "right" thing in a game, but it proves not to be the case in that situation.
# posted by qzhdad @ 4:28 AM 
