As previously, great content, as it is always useful to see your reasoning through the different situations. I appreciate the extra time you take to explain your moves. Several other Ark Nova Streamers are not very useful for learning or comparing decisions but you are. Good luck going up the ranks!
I know you are probably explaining what you are thinking more, but I really appreciate the pace you play at. It seems like you are thinking through your options more. When I watch like JD, he is blitzing out his games as fast as possible (and being top of the ladder needs to get games in fast to climb so I understand). I think when playing with friends, I have a problem where I run my turns too quick and it reminds me that I can be considering my turn more.
Thank you! Yeah being at the top of the rankings is definitely about reps, but when I'm recording making decent content is my primary goal so I appreciate that positive feedback!
@39:40 is a very interesting juncture with lots of options. I really want to get both the sponsors out before any of the animals in your hand, so I'd be very tempted to animals action purely to cobra/hypnotize his sponsor action for expert herbivore, and come back to play my herbivores later in the round. Feels bad to play only one animal, but the payoff for waiting is significant: $3/2pts per each one you delay. Your next two actions are automatically meerkat and assoc, and maybe you can squeeze in a small build so the wombat has a place to go. It's hard to do the math 5 turns ahead, but that $9 from the expert, plus 6 discount for Aus partner, plus 5 for meerkat placement bonus, I think maybe means you can both wombat and kangaroo on your next animals action, even before income from a break.
Interesting line! I think I was pretty intent on jamming meerkat den prior to the herbivore expert but I could have also done that with the hypnotize plan you suggest and an X. Since I wind up not doing animals for a few turns, I think this may indeed have worked out best. The other advantage of this line is I was worried he'd sponsors for break but with this plan he can't because we dropped it to the bottom with hypnotize!
The live play format is great fun- this game was a battle of science & progress vs your opponent going, as they say, "monkey mode" 😂 [One note] youve got slightly different settings than i do, so your tags arent displaying under your action selection- so the issue becomes as i follow along it actually ends up as kind of a lot of blank space on the screen. Maybe scrolling and looking at your cards&map or your opponents view in between turns would help that situation? The commentary is great as always and certainly guides it, i just found myself listening in & then getting a little lost when i tried to visually assess how it was going. A small thing to nitpick but it might make a difference for other viewers. Cant wait for the next one!
I really hate being stuck with discards on this map and I was perhaps a little tunnel focused on my reptiles and sponsorships. Just leaning into penguin pool may have been smarter
Yeah, I was really confused by this. Xing down animals and selling Hornbill just didn't make any sense especially after Penguin Pool. The 3 dollars did not equal the points and income from appeal. You don't really see this level of moves on Sam and JD's channels. Very strange.
As previously, great content, as it is always useful to see your reasoning through the different situations. I appreciate the extra time you take to explain your moves. Several other Ark Nova Streamers are not very useful for learning or comparing decisions but you are.
Good luck going up the ranks!
Thank you! I'll keep at it and be sure to bring you more snapshots of the journey. I'm glad to hear the explanations are landing well
I know you are probably explaining what you are thinking more, but I really appreciate the pace you play at. It seems like you are thinking through your options more. When I watch like JD, he is blitzing out his games as fast as possible (and being top of the ladder needs to get games in fast to climb so I understand). I think when playing with friends, I have a problem where I run my turns too quick and it reminds me that I can be considering my turn more.
Thank you! Yeah being at the top of the rankings is definitely about reps, but when I'm recording making decent content is my primary goal so I appreciate that positive feedback!
@39:40 is a very interesting juncture with lots of options. I really want to get both the sponsors out before any of the animals in your hand, so I'd be very tempted to animals action purely to cobra/hypnotize his sponsor action for expert herbivore, and come back to play my herbivores later in the round. Feels bad to play only one animal, but the payoff for waiting is significant: $3/2pts per each one you delay. Your next two actions are automatically meerkat and assoc, and maybe you can squeeze in a small build so the wombat has a place to go. It's hard to do the math 5 turns ahead, but that $9 from the expert, plus 6 discount for Aus partner, plus 5 for meerkat placement bonus, I think maybe means you can both wombat and kangaroo on your next animals action, even before income from a break.
Interesting line! I think I was pretty intent on jamming meerkat den prior to the herbivore expert but I could have also done that with the hypnotize plan you suggest and an X. Since I wind up not doing animals for a few turns, I think this may indeed have worked out best.
The other advantage of this line is I was worried he'd sponsors for break but with this plan he can't because we dropped it to the bottom with hypnotize!
The live play format is great fun- this game was a battle of science & progress vs your opponent going, as they say, "monkey mode" 😂
[One note] youve got slightly different settings than i do, so your tags arent displaying under your action selection- so the issue becomes as i follow along it actually ends up as kind of a lot of blank space on the screen. Maybe scrolling and looking at your cards&map or your opponents view in between turns would help that situation?
The commentary is great as always and certainly guides it, i just found myself listening in & then getting a little lost when i tried to visually assess how it was going. A small thing to nitpick but it might make a difference for other viewers.
Cant wait for the next one!
Huh interesting, ill fiddle with the layout settings and see if that can change anything! Thanks for the comment
Nice! I finally managed a nearly perfect perfect water tag end game today with 10 tags, but no aquarium sadly. ✌💦
good stuff, thoughts on not just playing the hornbill for 6+2 appeal in first round instead of selling it?
I really hate being stuck with discards on this map and I was perhaps a little tunnel focused on my reptiles and sponsorships. Just leaning into penguin pool may have been smarter
Yeah, I was really confused by this. Xing down animals and selling Hornbill just didn't make any sense especially after Penguin Pool. The 3 dollars did not equal the points and income from appeal. You don't really see this level of moves on Sam and JD's channels. Very strange.
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