Circuits and Rallies

I'm back from holiday! I guess coming back to familiarity after a few weeks of novelty got me thinking.Sometimes you repeat the same stuff over and over. Sometimes you breeze past stuff, never looking back. We’ll use an imperfect racing analogy of Circuits and Rallies. Circuits are great because you get to revisit things, building a familiarity with them. In Intergalactic Bastionland this is the ship, where you regularly return to the same place with the same people. Rallies are great because you’re experiencing a flurry of new material. In Intergalactic this is visiting worlds, where you get to experience a strange place and meet new people. This isn’t a case of good vs bad. Both types of element have their advantages, but benefit from the other in order to shine. And of course this usually isn’t a perfect fit. You can encounter new people and places within the ship, and you might revisit a contact when you go back to a world. The purpose of this idea is to consider whether your game…