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(07-07-2012 08:49 PM)Harti Wrote:  

(07-07-2012 08:38 PM)stevewastaken Wrote:  In the HA player run league, the solution was to start the starting player with 3 Action Points on his first turn, rather than the standard 5. While there is still a statistical advantage to FTA using the 3 AP system, it is pretty slight, when previously it was significant. That same solution would probably have the same results for Outwitters as well, considering both games start with 5 action points.

Interesting because this would be 'our' first shot towards balancing as well. This approach is even used in Trading Card Games like Magic: the Gathering (player 2 has 1 extra card in their opening hand).

I'm positive this will work for Outwitters - but once you've got to occupy 2 bonus spaces with predeployeds and would have to set up a couple of things to prevent STA, you can't (due to the limit of 3). This will require quite a lot of maptesting.

I have a hard time seeing the problem here. Given that the first player gets any number of wits at all on his first turn, the new STA will be smaller than the current FTA, that is a hard fact. You have to remember that the first turns will play out like 2 5 7 wits so the first player has plenty of wits to react on his second turn. With your argument, the second player will have to spend 2 of 5 wits on his first turn to take bonus squares, right?