After a big interchange of mails (about 10 in 3 days) between Skito and me, and a complete study of the game PRIMELLA, we have unhappily different points of view ; so this message is to ask all marpers (and especially those who have already played the game like Frankie or Renzo Vignola) their advices to choose the way of scoring they prefer ... Skito prefers awarding good combos than high level reached : scoring A, when I prefer awarding higher level reached (which implies anyhow to make good combos IMO even when reciproque is not always true) : scoring B(posted 8950 days ago)To be simple, you have to choose between 2 scorings : (A) score = (last level finished)x1000 + (last positive score ending a level) (B) score = (last level finished)x10000 + (final score, eventually corrected if negative)
For precisions on the game, its way of counting and scoring type B, you can consult http://mapage.noos.fr/marpkt/scoring.html where I explained a few things.
Preaching for my chapel, I will give ... Advantage of scoring B : *it rewards mainly the highest level reached (which was the first way of scoring naturally choosen by first players : remember scores of 7 or 8) *you can easily see at first sight what this level is (that explains the choice of 10000 where Skito prefers 1000, but as score could reach some values as +5000 or -5000 I think 10000 is better) *cohesion with game Sadari which is similar *you can know your score only looking the LAST screen (all is written there when your game is over to calculate it) : no need to take notes during game
Inconvenients of scoring A : *it doesn't reward the player who goes farest (look actual rankings on marp : frankie -only level5- is 1st & Renzo -level6- is 2nd) *it incites to "suicid"... let's take Frankie's game : end of level 1 : 2420 2 : 3220 3 : 4150 4 : 3330 5 : 2020 6 : -250 (6cards left on screen)
So if he suicides just after level 3 he get 7150 which is better than his actual score !! so it's useless then to try to go to higher levels (max score is always around 3 or 4 , after that substracted cards are too heavy)
Of course I will let Skito preaching for his own scoring ; just waiting for all of you voting A or B