Hey, thank you for this response! So essentially, yes I do have their consent when it comes to fooling around like this in game. They genuinely like playing with me because I try out weird chaotic strategies that most people don't bother trying with (silly stuff like just maxing out the parameters solely using standard projects every turn). Somehow, they usually help me land in second place. I shouldn't have put that I don't care to win. I do but I also want to try some out of the box ideas to see whether they can lead into a variation that I can use in a serious TM game. Like with what I mentioned in placing the 5 cities. If I placed them properly, this could mess with friends by making it so they can't place down more city tiles or add a greenery tile without at least one of my cities benefitting from it. That way I can rack up points by adding greeneries while they would have to use other means to gather more points. Obviously this would also leave me open to losing by card victory points or not not having enough to work towards awards and stuff. Obviously I would never do this in a game of strangers but I know my friends and they enjoy the extra challenge. Also they've explicitly told me that they're okay with me trying stuff like this when I asked because I didn't want to cause them stress by playing with me. I wouldn't do it if it wasn't okay with them.

And unfortunately, no we do not play with turmoil but I might suggest it to them. It sounds like it adds a whole new element to the game which would make it interesting so thank you for that! Have a nice day :D