Max Hand issues?

[Yep]

Hi there.
I'm loving the game as much as I love the Physical Board game.

Me and my friends are having an issue playing the Steam Version, but it may be that we are reading wrongly the rules.

The hand max limit of cards works as a hard cap in the digital version, while the way we interpreted the physical one is, you draw over your limit, then you discard to 8.

This change is making us having tons of pretty bored and locked matches in the digital version, because you can't refresh your hand in anyways, and you can't play what you have in your hand, and the recources on the table don't match what everyone have on their hands. This was "a hard/bad" match in the physical version, but you could find ways of walk around that by cycling cards in your hand using drawing and discarding.

Also, this limit makes many cards pretty bad while they should be good, like the librarian.

Are we in the wrong here or this is a change compared with the board game? In either case, was this contemplated by the community and play testers?

[Spectral B4dger]

Yeah, there's a hard cap in the physical game too.

[Yep]

I definitely misunderstood the rules then.. that's annoying!

[Spectral B4dger]

On the subject of cycling cards: If you don't own New Leaf expansion there's a variant to refresh the Meadow faster called The Border https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/172604/border-variant-everdell