I played this game to death. Love it. Some additional hints/feedback: Your info about what you earn isn't exactly correct. The 10-3 doesn't cost you 10. It costs 13 because 1 time is exactly 1 money in this game. Calculate it always like thatI The 7x7 is only important at a very high level. First learn the two phases of the game: 1. Generate optimal income early 2 Switch to filling the board as effective as possible Generating income is paying as little money for the buttons that are on the patch. Prevent buying pieces without buttons as much as possible in phase 1. The 0 3 piece is clearly best. It costs 3 and has 1 button. But the 7 6 can also be a great opening piece because you pay 13 money for 3 buttons that's average 4,33 per button. The lowest in the entire game after the 0-3! But if you get it a bit later, let's say after the 3rd payment you will miss out on 3 payments which is 9 so these 3 button pieces lose value quick. Another example: The 7 4 with 2 buttons is 5,5 money per button and that's just worse than most pieces with buttons on them so in general I avoid this piece in the income phase unless no better options are available. Filling the board is the second phase and usually means buying stuff with 1 or 2 time steps as much as possible. The key is to switch from income generation to efficient filling as late as possible. Of course it depends what pieces have been bought already, but a general rule of thumb is per 1 time you can fill 2 squares during the filling phase. So if you have 30 time and 50 empty squares you should still focus on income, as you are in the income phase. But with 20 time remaining and 40 empty squares you should switch to filling or you will end up with lots of minus points for empty squares. When I started playing on boardgamearena I focused on this principle, learning when to switch and made it to 500 elo (expert level) without practically ever getting the 7x7. It's easily possible to run away with 30-40 points difference against people that don't understand this well. I just played a little tournament with 15 participants that weren't very good, but not terrible either. I won all 14 games and averaged 35 points win margin per game (502 point win margin over all games). Yes, I probably got the 7x7 in most of those games too, I don't remember. Just saying that more than 80% of the point difference I made came from buying the correct pieces, not by puzzling the 7x7 as fast as possible. If you want to become master level on boardgamearena (700+ elo) you should start to focus on the 7x7. But the 1x1 patches are maybe even more crucial as getting them all 5 means getting 10 points that your opponent didn't. A 20 point swing, even more than 14 points. Positioning on the time track is very important to get those. But that's a topic on itself. Good video otherwise, plenty helpful stuff in there to get to the 300-500 "strong" player range on BGA. Maybe reviewing some games between high and low rated players would make it more easily understandable. Why do they make what move? Can we identify clear mistakes?
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Great video! Do you have any advice about passing through buttons? or passing by the oponnent and at the same time by the buttons? Sorry my english, i am from Argentina
I think from what I've seen passing is best when you don't want the pieces or if you take a piece you'll be giving your opponent a much better piece, so it sort of becomes a game of chicken. Passing through a button can give you a boost of income to allow you to potentially take those two important pieces in a row and set yourself up for success, so you don't have to avoid it completely!
I think likely the corner is better, if you're building from the centre out, there's more of a chance to get blocked on both sides. But I think it also depends on how people visual things and what helps. There was an awesome visualization of the H piece in the finals that blew me away with the forward thinking. So exciting to watch.
I played this game to death. Love it. Some additional hints/feedback:
Your info about what you earn isn't exactly correct. The 10-3 doesn't cost you 10. It costs 13 because 1 time is exactly 1 money in this game. Calculate it always like thatI
The 7x7 is only important at a very high level. First learn the two phases of the game:
1. Generate optimal income early
2 Switch to filling the board as effective as possible
Generating income is paying as little money for the buttons that are on the patch. Prevent buying pieces without buttons as much as possible in phase 1.
The 0 3 piece is clearly best. It costs 3 and has 1 button. But the 7 6 can also be a great opening piece because you pay 13 money for 3 buttons that's average 4,33 per button. The lowest in the entire game after the 0-3! But if you get it a bit later, let's say after the 3rd payment you will miss out on 3 payments which is 9 so these 3 button pieces lose value quick. Another example: The 7 4 with 2 buttons is 5,5 money per button and that's just worse than most pieces with buttons on them so in general I avoid this piece in the income phase unless no better options are available.
Filling the board is the second phase and usually means buying stuff with 1 or 2 time steps as much as possible. The key is to switch from income generation to efficient filling as late as possible.
Of course it depends what pieces have been bought already, but a general rule of thumb is per 1 time you can fill 2 squares during the filling phase. So if you have 30 time and 50 empty squares you should still focus on income, as you are in the income phase. But with 20 time remaining and 40 empty squares you should switch to filling or you will end up with lots of minus points for empty squares.
When I started playing on boardgamearena I focused on this principle, learning when to switch and made it to 500 elo (expert level) without practically ever getting the 7x7. It's easily possible to run away with 30-40 points difference against people that don't understand this well. I just played a little tournament with 15 participants that weren't very good, but not terrible either. I won all 14 games and averaged 35 points win margin per game (502 point win margin over all games). Yes, I probably got the 7x7 in most of those games too, I don't remember. Just saying that more than 80% of the point difference I made came from buying the correct pieces, not by puzzling the 7x7 as fast as possible.
If you want to become master level on boardgamearena (700+ elo) you should start to focus on the 7x7. But the 1x1 patches are maybe even more crucial as getting them all 5 means getting 10 points that your opponent didn't. A 20 point swing, even more than 14 points. Positioning on the time track is very important to get those. But that's a topic on itself.
Good video otherwise, plenty helpful stuff in there to get to the 300-500 "strong" player range on BGA. Maybe reviewing some games between high and low rated players would make it more easily understandable. Why do they make what move? Can we identify clear mistakes?
Great video!
Do you have any advice about passing through buttons? or passing by the oponnent and at the same time by the buttons?
Sorry my english, i am from Argentina
I think from what I've seen passing is best when you don't want the pieces or if you take a piece you'll be giving your opponent a much better piece, so it sort of becomes a game of chicken. Passing through a button can give you a boost of income to allow you to potentially take those two important pieces in a row and set yourself up for success, so you don't have to avoid it completely!
@@WSBGofficial Thanks!
Sorry, can you explain the formula again and use a couple of pieces as examples? I can’t seem to calculate it right.
Do you think it's better to begin on a correr or on the center?
I think likely the corner is better, if you're building from the centre out, there's more of a chance to get blocked on both sides. But I think it also depends on how people visual things and what helps. There was an awesome visualization of the H piece in the finals that blew me away with the forward thinking. So exciting to watch.