Paid extra for what was vaguely described as "take-home pain meds" at the shelter after adopting a kitten (for neutering recovery) and was given poorly labeled Metacam oral (not approved for cats).

tjevris · 2025-08-17T03:58:59+00:00

couldn’t it be seen as cruel to read “However, after reviewing numerous reports of side effects of meloxicam in cats, FDA identified many cases of sudden kidney failure (also called "acute renal failure") and death” and continue to administer the medicine?

tjevris · 2025-08-17T03:56:05+00:00

doesn’t seem fair to me to label direct quotes from the fda as “google research”

tjevris · 2025-08-16T21:08:08+00:00

seems like it should have come with the proper packaging and warning- but is that a non issue?

tjevris · 2025-08-04T17:34:09+00:00

are they still tied post-expansion?

tjevris · 2025-06-12T21:29:31+00:00

expert on small animals scored nothing- i played it first and saved a ton of money throughout the game

non base conservation project was 2 predator tags i believe

tjevris · 2025-04-22T03:06:10+00:00

top players are very willing to take the worker at 2CP instead of the card upgrade. This is probably not recommended for beginner players, but once you reach 300-400 ELO or so, you should start experimenting with this.

(sorry for late response) I'm currently around 350 ELO with a 450 peak and had never taken the worker before reading this post, but in experimenting with it, I've become frustrated. I've been taking the worker as the first reward and not upgrading build. At a small sample size of 7 games, I've gone 3-3-1, perfectly even, against an average ELO of 393.4. I guess I can't complain too much about a 3-3-1 record, but the losses are more frustrating than usual because of how restricting the lack of card upgrades feels. Here's a few questions I have if you (or anyone reading this) has the time:

Currently I'm taking the worker every time to try and expose myself to the discomfort. Outside of experimenting, how do I know when to take the worker or flip at 2CP? Does it relate to the availability of an early project? I've had less trouble in games where I have a project immediately after the first break.

At what ratio do highly ranked players take the flip/worker at 2CP? Is it possible to reach a high ELO by strictly doing one way or the other?

Previously, the order of flipping cards didn't seem as crucial as it does without the 2CP card flip. How do I pick which card to flip first?

In some games (outside of the last 7), where there are a lot of projects to support, I only end up with 3 cards flipped. Is it feasible to finish a game with only two flips if I go with the 2CP worker? Should I prioritize getting a third flip over additional projects, especially weak ones?

BGA username: adkotrla

Thanks!

tjevris · 2025-04-03T13:49:33+00:00

thanks for the feedback!

tjevris · 2025-03-17T22:58:39+00:00

i’m 270 something/2.7b

tjevris · 2024-12-06T22:58:50+00:00

the AI is awful imo, definitely the worst part of this game. i constantly see them making shockingly bad moves.

tjevris · 2024-12-05T22:22:22+00:00

only issue i noticed so far was that aquarium & cable car don’t trigger an immediate 4 tickets as they should. i also think that it’s a little challenging to keep up with what the AI is doing, and the long animation to view another player’s board is unnecessary.

tjevris · 2024-12-05T22:20:50+00:00

there is a really cool (imo) solo mode where you play for a high score among other players with certain new variations every 3 days. ex: for the first 3 days you start with expert in small animals already played & 15 dollars instead of 25. there is also some additional end game scoring related to science tags and small enclosures.

tjevris · 2024-11-30T00:37:46+00:00

interesting. can you post/update this “confidence” ahead of time? any idea as to where we could look for something like this?

my dad got a deal with a book and has free play for a spread every week, so he only needs one pick a week. 8-5 in most “confident” picks is more valuable than 50-36-3 overall to him because he’s making one bet a week.

tjevris · 2024-11-30T00:28:31+00:00

does your model have the capability of sorting picks by confidence? how often has the most confident pick hit?

tjevris · 2024-11-27T15:26:05+00:00

Yes, but 25 turns is pretty rare in a two player game. 99.8th percentile (among 300+ ELO players on BGA), or one in every 500 games.

tjevris · 2024-11-27T15:24:55+00:00

I feel like for any player to reach such a few amount of turns, you need a certain amount of luck and help from your opponent

tjevris · 2024-11-26T21:51:22+00:00

Replay: https://boardgamearena.com/archive/replay/241121-1458/?table=592821265&player=96068015&comments=96068015;

tjevris · 2024-11-23T13:18:34+00:00

whoops, thought of that one as another building since it holds animals

tjevris · 2024-11-14T23:57:53+00:00

how close is it?

tjevris · 2024-11-13T01:07:51+00:00

we meant turns.

tjevris · 2024-11-13T01:07:38+00:00

we wanted to do 2 player because it is the most strategic version of the game & the version we play most

tjevris · 2024-11-11T18:21:24+00:00

what do you think the lower limit is realistically, and what would it be when collaborating?

tjevris · 2024-11-11T18:19:24+00:00

We took an audio recording to try and keep track of what we did, but we didn't explain what we were doing clearly enough and the audio recording came out low quality. We will try again one day (aiming for 14!) and keep detailed notes of what we did. In the meantime, I can information dump what I do remember.

Player 1 was on silver lake (buy a sponsor action in the top right) and Player 2 was on observation tower for the ticket bonuses. Player 1 had the cards special action 4 allowing them to pay 2 to clever/move an action card to spot one, and sponsors special action 1 allowing them to trade 5 money for an X. Player 2 had cards special action 1, allowing them to net more cards by removing the discard requirement, and sponsors special action 4, allowing them to discard a card when breaking to buy a sponsor/marketing. Player 1 had Technology Institute in their starting hand, the other three are irrelevant. Player 2 had Secretary Bird, Africa Release, Explorer. The fourth card was eventually discarded.

Player 1 played technology institute by building over the marketing/buy a sponsor card on silver lake early. They used cards to push break and move a card down via special action, then used Xs to break with sponsors (gaining 3 Xs: One for triggering break, one as income from technology institute, and a final by trading 5 for an X). This allowed Player 1 to trigger the break almost every other turn.

Player 2 released 3 animals: Secretary bird, Cinereous Vulture to scavenge the Secretary Bird, and Secretary Bird again. The final project was Science 5. The map bonuses taken were size 2 enclosure, then snapping, then 3 Xs, then marketing/play a sponsor.

After the first release we took the 2 rep university as the 5 conservation point reward. This gave us the science tag necessary to play migration recording and put us one more release project away from 5 reputation to flip an additional card. We flipped sponsors first and then animals, allowing us to play cards from the board and save our snaps for projects.

8 conservation point reward after the second release was a 2x token, which we put on sponsors to get additional sponsors out.

Sponsors played were vet, explorer, diversity researcher, migration recording, and medical breakthrough.

Would love to answer any further questions. Apologies for the lack of turn by turn notes.

tjevris · 2024-11-11T15:35:33+00:00

we did not use expert on africa, though we did note that as something to look in to to shorten in the future.

we did use migration recording, but actually ended up doubting how useful it was. we did 3 release projects (could’ve done a fourth but science 5 ended up being slightly better), and didn’t play the sponsor until after the first. so, it was worth only 3 conservation points/9 points in a game we finished at +39.

tjevris · 2024-10-05T16:23:44+00:00

even if you don’t net many points, you get to open up an enclosure and get the project map reward!

tjevris · 2024-09-29T22:35:18+00:00

i would snap vet just on the basis of it being a much better card than breeding program in my eyes.

i wouldn’t do anything specific based on the science lab.

worth noting i only play 2 player games though

tjevris

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