by garfielder
Luscious Willard wrote:
I side with your friends in this regard. After completing a game of Eclipse in 3-4 hours, I never want to play a 6-7 hour session of TI with all the miniature cards and pieces spreading across the table. TI wasn't more deep as much as it was more convoluted.
I'd be intrigued to know ... what about TI do you like that's missing from Eclipse?
From what I can tell from multiple plays of both, TI only possesses the additional layer of a politics phase.
I'd be intrigued to know ... what about TI do you like that's missing from Eclipse?
From what I can tell from multiple plays of both, TI only possesses the additional layer of a politics phase.
I like Eclipse. I own both but it will never replace TI for me.
Not it's not about politics or particular thing.
Eclipse played on the set number of turns and there is set ways to get points. It is quite possible to have whole game be on your own side of galaxy never interacting with other players and keep scoring. And you know where game going to end - so there is never a reason to try gamble and get early advantage. Any game that has set number of turns and no way to win early is quite different from game that has sudden death options. Even if you don't play with Imperium Rex (and some people play without it) it's never about - ok I have enough points and just have to wait until the end now.
It is possible to get early gain - but it's usually luck in system not gamble of players.
It is just different type of game.
It is not uncommon at our games to have 4 people fighting for win that round and only 2 of them in obvious way and 2 pretending they no longer care but actually ready to score some sneaky secret objective or capture artifact nobody thing is in their reach. Maybe it's possible to get same level in Eclipse - but I am never sure. Because in the end in Eclipse you know it's all done and TI3 everyone might fail and there is another round after that.