[troutman]

Teotihuacan takes many plays to get better at, and then it can be very satisfying. I can understand not wanting to put that much commitment into it. Good players do accumulate plenty of resources (using technologies, placing multiple dice). The action board set-up is important, and I would avoid taking an action that is already full of other dice. The worship action and mask gathering is normally of limited use in the base game, but become more powerful with the expansions. I'm still not great at it, but my scores are improving.

EDIT: Just finished a game on boardgame arena:

#1 - QuangDuong - 238
#2 - troutman1966 - 199
#3 - Petrichor - 162
#4 - malacheye - 142

This was my second highest score ever, and I still lost by 39 points. The game is hard to master, but I am consistently scoring better. The winner took the lead in the last two rounds with some masterful planning - multiple dice on the construction board and two ascensions.

I like that the game is a big puzzle - trying to coordinate your actions into big combinations. More tactical than strategic. But, there is definitely a big learning curve to score well.