{"id":203,"date":"2020-10-14T07:55:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T11:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/?p=203"},"modified":"2021-01-29T07:15:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T12:15:09","slug":"the-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/203\/the-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By the time I&#8217;d reached year 5 of my solo 3-councilor game, I&#8217;d managed to build every building in the build row, and the threats were having virtually no impact. I know I&#8217;m playing more cooperatively than three individual players probably would, but that&#8217;s far too easy. Time to reassess the cost to build a building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I dealt random some sets of 6 villagers and 3 buildings. For each set I took the influence from 3 councilors and tried to see how much I could accomplish with perfect cooperation. In other words: the councilors place their influence to maximize the villagers&#8217; effort, even if it doesn&#8217;t help their own score. Getting 6 effort on the first building was pretty hard, even at the expense of effort to the other two buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"627\" height=\"517\" src=\"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/TTS_Screenshot_2020-10-14_07-43-24.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/TTS_Screenshot_2020-10-14_07-43-24.png 627w, https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/TTS_Screenshot_2020-10-14_07-43-24-300x247.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Getting 5 effort was certainly achievable, even to two buildings, but probably not to all three. Three is the minimum number of councilors, so a higher-count game would have more influence and potentially make it easier, but I suspect cooperation is actually harder with more players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So I increased all the build costs to 5. I also made the Liberty and Care threats affect two villagers each, to give them more teeth should they come into play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the time I&#8217;d reached year 5 of my solo 3-councilor game, I&#8217;d managed to build every building in the build row, and the threats were having virtually no impact. I know I&#8217;m playing more cooperatively than three individual players probably would, but that&#8217;s far too easy. Time to reassess the cost to build a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design","category-villanostra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckixd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}