On Fri, 2022-04-08 at 19:45 +0000, nix via agora-discussion wrote: > On 4/8/22 13:34, Jason Cobb via agora-discussion wrote: > > Also, while timing scams are interesting gameplay, I don't think it's a > > good idea to change the rules for the sole purpose of making them easier > > to perform. In this specific situation, the timing element is likely to > > be repealed soon anyway. > > Tangent to this topic: > > I feel like there's a recent push for these minmaxing/optimization tools > (automation, acting on behalf, contracts) etc. The problem is that > minmaxing/optimization is basically solving a puzzle. And once a puzzle > is solved it's boring. This is what happened with Cards in Sets, they're > solved now thanks to contracts. That was a fun exercise that took us a > while of play. But that was a sub-game. If Agora as a whole becomes > solve-able, it becomes boring.
Huh? I don't think Cards are solved at all, and that's part of the reason I find them interesting. We've solved the problem of forming sets using cards from players who are active and willing to trade, but there are lots of cards that players are unwilling to trade, or held by inactive people, and making sets with those is much harder. The consequence is that our current economy has really interesting liquidity issues, and in practice players have been known to form suboptimal trades because they need products more quickly than they'd get them by forming a set and distributing the resulting products fairly. -- ais523
