The one time I played it we all conceded the game pretty quickly, because nobody was that interested in doing any scheming... and without schemes it becomes a p

The one time I played it we all conceded the game pretty quickly, because nobody was that interested in doing any scheming... and without schemes it becomes a pretty boring zero-sum stalemated game. I feel like the gameplay everyone talks about comes from the large metagame that has grown up around it, the game itself is very small and boring.