JCL

Maker of Makers, Questioner of Questions, These are a few of my favourite things.

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@whitecatplays @Joecomotive Yeah. I'm increasingly happy with Mastodon/ActivityPub, and Doctorow's rank on enshittification does hold true.

- https://t.co/rjTwihl0DA
- https://t.co/2r0CTv7onS

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@whitecatplays @Joecomotive I'l be removing my account and all its posts from twitter soon enough too.

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Goodbye.

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@jgebbia Sure, just mandate the equivalent of RejectAll without explicit opt-in. If that's a problem for your business model, then that's on you to innovate past.

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@shazzner Oh, I should probably say why:

https://t.co/fAgJ5YSRoG

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@shazzner Likewise, except that I've already given up on bsky.

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@whitecatplays @Joecomotive Suffice that I see designer intent as having no part in playing the game, but then I define the game context as the rules and the players and...nothing else.

Which also (in part) describes the same split we're discussing.

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@whitecatplays @Joecomotive Why consider or suggest or consider the designer's intent at all? Are they necessarily relevant to a player playing the game and accomplishing the win-state or not?

The player either overcomes the problem or not.

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@zan_tanuka Yep, that's my design. Just happened to do a quick scan on Twitter -- I'm mostly on Discord and Mastodon these days.

London is cool and also tough on its its players. You may also like my Wales and Denmark maps. You'll find them quite different to each other.

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@PlayerToTheLeft I've follow nobody on Twitter, but have lists of people around various interests. (Lists can be public or private) I never ever use my account's timeline (with all its ads), but read the lists separately, managing who I have on each list as suits.

Much cleaner, much simpler.

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@sikkoukakari Lonny silently changed the track-tile roster for 1854 in later reprints. Many players don't find the changes to be improvements.

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@18xxDSM This is 1839 (from today's game -- two types of companies (trams and freight), 13 train ranks, 10 rusting events, plays in ~6-7 stock rounds and around 5 hours):

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@Joecomotive I initially assumed a pregnancy test...

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@shazzner Like many #18xx, I see the primary focus as the train roster. 12 ranks of trains, 10 rusting events, last rank of trains sometimes breaks in OR5.x, usually OR6.x, sometimes OR7.x -- pretty much marks where players need to focus in, yes, surviving & setting up their end-games.

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@Joecamotive @TheTrainRush Because they use pencil & paper?

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@Joecamotive Aye, it also doesn't take a lot of skill difference to be dominating. I don't mind that, but do mind that the skill difference seems to primarily focus on spatial reasoning (not parsing or simple combinatorics), which appears to be biological & not something that can be learned.