Bond

Don’t forget to get a variety of resources early on because you’ll need all or most of them later and buying from your neighbors is expensive. Some people try to use the gold cards to compensate, but if you don’t have resources, then you don’t have income, so you will need more gold cards to get money. Gold cards don’t give you points, and that’s a lot of gold cards when you could have been getting resources and point cards.

High points are achieved by focusing your efforts in 2 areas, but you also need to generalize in several areas just in case you don’t get the cards you want or you end up competing with a neighbor for all the same cards.