How to stop sucking at Prismata: 6 common mistakes you might be making
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“If you build it, he will come,” the voice said.
We’ve been readying ourselves to expand our server capacity, and would-be beta testers—20,000 of them, in fact—will soon be coming to play Prismata. So in preparation for the huge influx of new players, I’ve decided to make a sequel to our original how to play video for beginners, and the supplementary text guide. They were successful in explaining the rules and user interface of Prismata, but some players, especially those unfamiliar with real-time-strategy decision-making, had no idea what to do each turn.
Should I be building Drones, or laying down a lot of Blastforges, or spamming attackers?
In this article, I hope to answer these questions with some simple rules of thumb—guidelines to help new players through the overwhelming amount of options. Of course, the true art in Prismata is discovering, through experience, when these rules should be broken.
If you haven’t already checked out our introductory how-to-play video, you might want to have a look at that first.