by ftl_ftw
One thing - remember you get to pick your character AFTER you see the starting hand. There's an order to the board setup and it matters. It's probably a mistake to have the person who has very few city cards to start out with a role that relies on city cards! Would make much more sense to have that person start out with a role that focuses on supply cube delivery and have somebody else collect cards. Starting characters are part of the puzzle too!Can't comment on event cards. Both in PL1 and PL2 we mostly stayed in the 0-2 event cards in the deck range, so they rarely came up.
Lots of people are commenting about the variance though. Hard for me to judge - either we came out on the good end of it and got lucky, or we just thought too hard for each move - but it seems to be a common comment.
I thought the game ended up being a bit too much of a puzzle, especially later months - the number of different actions and things you can do just keeps piling up and up, and it just led to analysis paralysis where there was a million options.