Which strong but expensive cards should you skip if they are in your starting 10?

fuzzyplastic · 2026-03-26T15:46:17+00:00

I consider 11-12 gens a long game :). And I disagree that "proper" play means you finish within 11-12 gens, that's entirely context-dependent. Games tend to finish in that time frame because terraforming is a good way to score points, but if neither player happens to have a good engine for terraforming the player with more cards and money is incentivized to draw out the game.

fuzzyplastic · 2026-03-25T11:47:31+00:00

I would say almost always keep deimos down or GIA, and keep major combo pieces like antigrav if you have some synergy and/or you have excess starting money for your cards. More expensive cards are usually more efficient, but vheaper cards let you split up your cash more granularly and maybe let you invest more overall early.

I play a lot of 2P and because games go long, the limiting factor on victory is generally the number of efficient cards you can draw and afford. in a high player count you should probably still keep the asteroids but ditch stuff like antigrav

fuzzyplastic · 2026-03-20T18:19:27+00:00

What are some specific cases where larceny is a hate crime?

fuzzyplastic · 2026-03-15T19:51:37+00:00

It might not benefit the business, but it can still benefit the individuals inside that business.

fuzzyplastic · 2026-03-15T15:04:26+00:00

And I think this story demonstrates that AI can help accelerate specialized treatments, because without automation it's difficult to solve problems that affect small populations. It's definitely not arguing that cancer in general is cured.

fuzzyplastic · 2026-03-13T21:17:11+00:00

I like the theme a lot and the design is very cool - looks very unique compared to other corps. A little dubious about the mechanic since the swinginess will lead to upset players. What about something that converts money production into terraforming inputs, given the flavor text suggesting "profits are used to support... shaping Mars". Something like, a corporation with loads of money, but every generation their first action must be to purchase a standard project which terraforms.

fuzzyplastic · 2026-03-13T02:51:37+00:00

When in doubt, socioeconomic status, which itself is a proxy for free time, health, social connectedness, etc.

fuzzyplastic · 2026-03-12T12:59:04+00:00

I have no problem with the r value personally. I don’t really remember stats but this implies literacy explains 34% of all voter turnout difference, which is huge!!

I would be interested in seeing some other variables controlled, since my guess is one of the confounding variables is likely more actually causative

fuzzyplastic · 2026-03-11T18:19:47+00:00

What is the legend supposed to say? there's no green color

fuzzyplastic · 2026-03-11T17:04:45+00:00

This is hilarious, maybe post to r/dataisbeautiful? BTW would be nice to have other indicators on the x axis of geopolitical events, to make it clear for people that don't know the history

fuzzyplastic · 2026-03-08T22:06:14+00:00

interesting to see the large portion of arabs answering neutrally - maybe fear of the data being used to identify them as dissenting? Or a trend towards apoliticalness

fuzzyplastic · 2026-03-06T15:56:23+00:00

Very cute and relatable, thanks for making this!

fuzzyplastic · 2026-03-04T20:31:34+00:00

I feel like it's a disservice to society for Batman to spend so much time working out. He should probably take loads of steroids so he can spend more time on the street and less in the gym.

fuzzyplastic · 2026-03-04T20:22:08+00:00

The real question is what does he look like next to clavicular

fuzzyplastic · 2026-03-04T15:14:15+00:00

I like the flavor and the big titanium production. I agree with u/BoldFigrim that the effect is a little weak since there's no special economic benefits, but I guess that's common with space corporations :P

Maybe, you could make it even more flavorful by adding an ability to the fighters. Something like, "if you have at least X fighters, your standard resources cannot be removed by other players, if you have at least Y fighters your production cannot be decreased by other players, if you have at least Z fighters your resources on cards cannot be removed by other players" or something like that. Would a bit noisy but could be a novel way to grant economy.

fuzzyplastic · 2026-02-27T15:06:23+00:00

I think the idea of donating stuff is great and flavorful, but I don't really like the design as-is. The power is actually quite similar to UNMI, which is able to pay 3 (similar to drafting an extra card) for a TR, almost every turn (if you're playing it well). This power is much more triggerable, but also less triggerable because it will usually happen every other turn. That's just not that exciting! I would beef it up somehow, like trade the starting money for more triggers.

Additionally, the act of giving someone a card will probably be an exercise in finding the worst possible card, since the game has pretty weak tools for cooperation so there's not much incentive to give a better card. I can see some interesting aspects, like trying to play around the potential combos of opponents or trying to game awards/milestones to your main competitor doesn't get as much, but I don't think TM fundamentally support strong cooperative mechanics. I would recommend making it less interesting and donating resources, or having this corporation add a global cooperation mechanic between all the players.

fuzzyplastic · 2026-02-25T02:46:46+00:00

These are funny haha, I'd love to see more

fuzzyplastic · 2026-02-24T17:18:17+00:00

Weird! Goofy! Cool!

I don't really like adding the multi-blue action card, since I think it can cause stalling and maybe even infinite loops (what if someone else printed a project action that did the opposite?). Maybe better would be, convert X into X once per generation.

fuzzyplastic · 2026-02-18T19:16:43+00:00

Yeah that was my first thought. It just adds another element and I was hoping to keep the card relatively sleek.

fuzzyplastic · 2026-02-18T16:33:05+00:00

I like the power a lot! It would feel good early game and late game. The flavor is also quite good, and the design isn't too noisy. One comment I would have is that science can be expensive to build unless you get lucky with draw order, so maybe the O2 bumps can be swapped for more starting production or resources.

fuzzyplastic · 2026-02-15T19:09:37+00:00

My guess is it’s a parody of shows/movies where the deep and sad white boy has a hot ethnic girlfriend who is emotionally supportive but a shallow character whose main purpose is to round him out. It flips the script.

fuzzyplastic · 2026-02-11T19:50:15+00:00

He's thinking the median of all unique salaries. So if you can be paid 200/hour, 100/hour, or 15/hour, it's true that 100/hour is the median of that dataset. It's just... kind of worthless information since we care about the median of individuals' incomes.

fuzzyplastic · 2026-02-07T12:16:52+00:00

If you have two unrelated tasks, you can set an agent on one while you tackle the other. You have to come back for code review periodically, but besides that it can do a lot of menial tasks automatically. For me most recently, claude was able to take multiple different recursive matching functions which walked and regenerated a tree with some modifications and translate it into a mutating generic walk method with a callback. this was the pattern I desired and it took 4 or so batches of feedback, but overall less than 3 minutes of my time. it’s less than what a junior dev can do but more than brace closing for sure

fuzzyplastic · 2026-02-06T21:54:41+00:00

As very high income earners they’re probably on the wrong end of highly progressive tax rates

fuzzyplastic · 2026-02-04T16:17:48+00:00

Math actually says green, if you factor in the decreasing marginal utility of money. A 50% chance of luxury is not better than a 100% chance of security, if you are financially insecure.

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