I was gonna post over in the Easy Allies thread but as I wrote more I thought it’d fit this thread more
Media Blackout is an accidental masterpiece
The idea of ‘contract you get a better score on if you don’t follow all the rules’ would be genuinely impressive if someone like KevinRudd or Urben came up with with it. But because Media Blackout is clearly just someone just going a bit trigger happy with complications they maybe didn’t understand, then we all hate it.
However it can technically be done SA. So SA purists can still complete it as they’d like (with a lot of waiting), but it demonstrates that completing something SA isn’t the most important thing. It uses the score system in a more nuanced way than it’s usually used, where the rule is simply ‘SA is king’.
So I semi agree with schaten’s point above. I want everything to still be completable by SA (some people feel the need to always SA) but I wish SA wasn’t always the defacto best way to do everything