Remove `individual-goal`

[nymanjens]

It isn't effective at its goal of reducing piloting IMO.

My main reason to remove it is to reduce the cognitive burden of the whole game.

[Tantali]

I agree it should be changed. Either removed if it doesn't fix piloting (but the 'Lieven' comment did convince me it probably still has some merit). Or chance it so it comes in to play more often.

I'm more for the 'individual goal becomes easier as turn counter increases', which would fix the long game we just had.

[317070]

As you probably know my opinion, I will sum my arguments:

• I stand by that I think it still reduces/removes piloting. We had no not-fun piloting so far, but also no test games where not-fun piloting could have happened anyway (since all players were strong).
• It reduces game length, even now, as losing teams snowball away from their alliance
• When designed the way I proposed, it has little weight to explain and understand
• I noticed that the cognitive burden (in calculations) of this rule is indeed huge. This can be reduced by scrapping it from your mind entirely, which I did this game. After all, it remains an optional path to victory.
• It does increase the number of viable strategies, which is exactly where the burden comes from. I see this as a benefit.
• It increases the politics and diplomacy in the game, from almost non-existent to rather complex.

Overall, I think the rule has 3 main benefits: reducing game length, reducing piloting, increasing viable strategies.

My proposed course of action:

• We keep the individual goal for now, at the high (almost irrelevant) level it is. Mainly to reduce length and increasing the number of strategies.
• We look for alternatives to remove/reduce piloting
• We look for alternatives to reduce game length
• We look for third opinions on this matter
• If a game with actual piloting happens, we evaluate whether it is an argument strong enough to influence the weak player. We compare this to the alternatives. I see little use of removing an anti-piloting rule based on a game without piloting.
• We test the reducing individual counter for fun-level. If it is fun, I would propose to at least keep that one as a non-beginner version of the game.

[nymanjens]

Discussed offline: Consensus: Ignore individual-goal and test-play master until we find that piloting is an actual problem.