by junesen
alainE wrote:
Plummtw wrote:
How about a variant that the rest token getting the start player is changed to choosing the start player. So if you can choose to be first, be last or be the middle.
It is a choice to become the first player since it allows for certain benefits (win the tie, placing tiles archipelago). But it also has disadvantages (programming) and sometimes it is not interesting. To offset the benefits, there is also a big disadvantage. If you chose to be the first player, you can not choose not to be. Remove this gives too much advantage to the first player.
But what about the player who was (randomly chosen to be) the first player? If nobody picks the first player the whole game, he is stuck being the first player. This happened in our first (and only) game. The first player said he liked the game, but wished that he wasn't the first player the whole game. I liked playing in the last position (in a 3 player game) and would not like to be the first player because it seems weak to me and the last player suited my style of playing more.