Primordial Soup?

I'm not trolling! (Although I've just been suspended from BGG again.)

Oh do tell...

Can anyone compare Primordial Soup with Reef Encounter? They seem to be the same kind of game, just from looking at reviews.

dave wrote: Chaos: In what sense? The primary random element are the environment cards, which get easier to predict as the game enfolds. You only have to manage risks in four different directions of drift. The bigger issue is when the BP limit drastically drops, but that's just one small item of risk to add in.

It's the drift aspect that I found annoying. It's not controllable or predictable in any way (which is why I say it's bad chaos) and it can play a big part in the game. You can of course buy genes that allow you to move against the drift but then you're playing into the hands of other people who are up on the strategic flaw you mention - you buy movement genes, they start to collect the genes required for the ultimate strategy.

Again I suggest the OP downloads the windows version of the game and tries it for himself. Look, I even dug out a link:

doris-frank.de/UrsuppeWin.html

And having looked up the game I also came across my comment:

"Strangely uninvolving. Feels like there's little control (even though there is) and the game seems to descend into a race for the best gene combinations. Plus all those little food cubes to sort each round are too damn fiddly."

And I rated it a six. So perhaps I liked it more than I'm remembering, but I still wouldn't buy it.

Great comments all. Thank you very much. I don't know how much play this would get at my house, so I am going to wait. I will try to get a game with my buddies copy to see for myself.

I may also try the windows version of the game. Thanks for finding the link Matt.

Schweig! wrote:
" (Although I've just been suspended from BGG again.)"
Heh, what did you do this time?
" I've only played it once though."
For shame!

ubarose wrote:
" this one guy is always talking trash about it, so I could never get anyone to play. So about a month ago I finally get a couple of people to play it with me, and I ask the guy who is always talking trash about it if he wants to teach it or if he wants me to, and he tells me he has never played it. Go figure."
I figure he's a moron. Wait, even worse: a fun murderer! Kill 'im!

Stonecutter wrote: Oh do tell...

Notahandle wrote: Heh, what did you do this time?

My mistake, I treaded into RSP again... apparently Mr. Banhammer-upon-his-arse Octavian and that Drew guy (who was the original wanker as betokened by Mr. Skeletor himself) are Tea Party sympathisers which in and on itself isn't bad, but apparently they jerk each other off on a regular basis, so this has been the second time now that I have been banned by Octavian for criticising one of Drew's posts.

This time it was in a debate about homophobia and how a study suggested that it's rooted in suppressed homosexuality. The debate was a good one and nobody really called into question the *scientific* results of the study until Drew came along posting "Yay! Confirmation bias!". My first interpretation of this statement was that he seemingly felt offended in his perceived freedom of homophobia, but not entirely sure about this, I asked what the intention of the post was or whether he was just trolling.

Result: 5 day suspension for accusation of trolling.

Schweig! wrote: Result: 5 day suspension for accusation of trolling.

That's disgusting. Oddly I accused him of trolling a few days earlier in a thread about climate change and I got no action at all other than a reminder that I ought not to accuse people of trolling. Double standards?

Interestingly it would be far better for Drew if he did claim to be a troll - because the alternative is that he's a moronic, unconscionable, grade-A tosspot.

Now I'm permanently banned.

I hope it's because you were talking about it here - that would be too much.