Steam: Rails to Riches goes online with asynchronous play

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#48

JMH.75 and Snotty128 have taken seats in StatelyPlay NE.
shall we wait for a 4th player or start as 3P?

when we wait on to start NE as 4P,
the other game could wait for one more interested player to start as 4P too.

#49

i have recruited a player from my friendslist, Pete, and started the first 4P game for a perfect fit.

@JaneHatke, @Hardco, @irishdomer08 and @whovian223 can set the stage and start the second 4P game now.

the Northern England map is a delight for Brass players indeed,
all the well know cities and locations are there and waiting for connections.
canal phase is skipped :grin:

i chose Standard game for our game because a) deeper and b) totally fair.
because all players can make their bets fighting for the start player advantage (esp First Build in the first round).
but it’s up to you to make your choice of mode and map for the second game.

the whole thing starts to feel like a tourney.
a test run of course :yum:

#50

I have gone ahead and created a room called ‘Stately Play Table 2’ with password ‘Tourney’.

@JaneHatke, @Hardco, and @whovian223 come join!

I chose the USA map and a Basic game.

If the group wants to play something else, we can certainly do that too.

#51

Invite accepted

#52

I would like to play a Standard game with people from this forum. I’d also like to be in the tournament.

I am Jason1002 on the Steam app.

#53

Hello Jason, welcome!

so you and me are the first players on the waiting list for the next opening standard game.
let’s see who might join us.
it’s worth the wait.
in Stately Play community games are not abandoned and fair boardgame sportswomen and men all around us.

what map would you like to play?

are you playing the other great Martin Wallace game app too?
we finished already two Brass tourneys and a next will come for sure.
any other boardgame apps you like to play?
Agricola, Carcassonne, Lords of Waterdeep, Twilight Struggle, Puerto Rico, Galaxy Trucker, Summoner Wars, Titan HD, Cthulhu Realms or anything else?

#54

Stately Play Table 2 has started!

@JammaTal, I’d be up for a Standard game too. Please add me to the queue.

#55

I have no preference on map. I have played a few Standard games of Steam so far, so I am still exploring it. It’s hard to know how many loans to take - you basically have to plan out your whole move ahead of time.

Yes, I have Brass installed on my iphone too, and have played quite a few games. It seems lately, though, that someone times out after a few days and games never really get going. So I have no open Brass games currently. I have been keeping an eye on your Brass thread for the next tournament.

I play Agricola on my phone against others, I play Twilight Struggle on my computer using Steam. I have Titan HD installed on my Ipad and I enjoy it, but my kids always have the Ipad. I play Puerto Rico on Boardgame Arena.

Looking forward to our Steam game / tournament

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#56

great!
so we are jason1002, irishdomer08 and me. one more entry would be nice.
let’s wait on for 2 or 3 days.

i would love to play the Carcassonne map.
Brass (Northern England) and Carcassonne map are nice references, but we need a TS (world) map too :expressionless:

#57

sad to hear this.
i have played about 10 games with strangers, and i guess 8 or 9 were finished.
even far behind players continued to play. very special Brass community.
seems to have gone down then :disappointed:
eg Eclipse is a dropout fest. i won some games simply because all other players had dropped out.
same bad habit for so many online games when playing with strangers.

LOL on your kids always having the ipad. i guess many parents can confirm this :joy:

#58

I could handle a second friendly game, to see how the carcassonne map plays out

#59

so nice!
i will create game room “StatelyPlay France” (pw: Carca)
edit: done

@jason1002 and @irishdomer08, are you ready for that?

#60

Sure let’s play

#61

Yes I’m ready as soon as I download the map.

#62

Mhatke must take turn.

I don’t see irishdomer08 in this game.

#63

mhatke is irishdomer08 :upside_down:

#64

just moved, sorry guys. crazy week of work :slight_smile:

#65

i think it’s time to move over to category Players Wanted when asking who would like to join a new game.

i’m playing in 4 Standard games (feels ok to play in so many parallel games) now and would like to go with Basic again too.
i think by now we have got a better feeling for the differences and i want to get that basic feeling again.
i still can’t decide what i like better.
basic= much faster, frantic track construction, less calculation stress.
standard= better make deep plans, feel economical pressure right from the start, auctions an own minigame.

if anybody wants to feel that basic feeling again, join me in Players Wanted/Steam RtR

#66

no doubt about that Standard gameplay is deeper and more satisfying because of loans and auctions.
but on the other hand of my 4 running Steam games the two later started Basic games are steaming forward very nicely and have overtaken both (kind of stalled) Standards.

i guess it’s the constant “something big is waiting for me around next corner”-feeling which drives the games forward.
always something to build or to transport.
there is no gap between looking around the map and making (undoubtedly great) plans and turning these into action.
esp great for async games.
so i must admit that i like the Basic games more than the advanced Standards in the moment.
but maybe simply because there is some gaming going on :grimacing:

#67

Looks like I barely squeaked by with a victory in our basic game. That went pretty quickly. I was going up and down the left side of the map and never seemed to run out of cubes to ship.