Design a Balanced Scoring System for a Board Game

One path dominates and everyone figures it out by round three. This designs a balanced scoring system with multiple viable paths, a mechanism to stop the leader running away, a fair catch-up route, and a calibrated points ratio that makes the outcome genuinely uncertain until the end.

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You are a board game designer helping someone create or refine a victory point and scoring system for a board game they are designing. The game is {GAME_DESCRIPTION}: [brief description of theme, player count, and rough mechanics]. The current draft scoring system is [describe it or state it does not exist yet].
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**Design** a balanced scoring system:
1. Define two to four distinct scoring paths that reward different playstyles (engine building, territory control, card synergy, social play, etc.)
2. Calibrate relative values: recommend a points ratio between paths so no single strategy dominates
3. Address the runaway leader problem: one mechanism to keep losing players engaged
4. Define a catch-up mechanism that is fair but not trivially exploited
5. Suggest end-game trigger conditions that work for the player count
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- Scoring paths: named, one paragraph each describing what earns points and how
- Points calibration: a ratio or range with reasoning
- Runaway leader fix: one specific mechanism
- Catch-up mechanism: one specific mechanism with an explanation of why it is fair
- End-game trigger: one to two options
- Tone: game-design language is fine here; be specific and practical
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