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[Toaster]

Oh hey, did I just ninja-win?

[Mephansteras]

Oh hey, did I just ninja-win?

Yes. Yes you did.

[Toaster]

I'd like to thank everyone at the sandcastle building contest, then.

[Mephansteras]

Hey guys, I'm thinking of running another of these soon. Figured I'd give first dibs to those of you who played this time.

There will be two major rules changes:

1) Production will provide one free building activation (essentially a free food) as its played bonus.
2) Building will now allow you to build 2 buildings at once as its played bonus. The ability to populate the building when you play it will become standard, so that people actually like it when someone else plays build.

[Toaster]

That's a considerable buff to those two actions.  Will the other weak one (Survey) be getting anything to make it more appealing?

Also, Organization is now weaker.

[GreatWyrmGold]

That's a considerable buff to those two actions.  Will the other weak one (Survey) be getting anything to make it more appealing?

Also, Organization is now weaker.

These. Organization needs other things. Maybe buildings have specific shapes, and ORganization lets you move them around?

Anyways, I'm in.

[Mephansteras]

Well, in my playtests Survey still gets used reasonably often anyway. Since Production no longer necessarily gives you Money, people will often play Survey as a way to get a small influx of cash if they think someone is going to play Trade that turn. Curious to see how it works out here.

As for Organization, it weakens it but only a little. People still often need to switch around populations as the game goes on since you frequently put Skilled and Experts down wherever you can early on and need to change them later as you get more advanced buildings and a pool of Unskilled to use on the other jobs. And people mostly go for it to get First Place anyway, so its overall utility hasn't changed to much. But, again, I'd like to see how that plays out in this format as opposed to the single-session games when I play it live.

[Mephansteras]

Been doing some more playtests, and I think I may try out a streamlined version here. Well, streamlined in some ways, but I'm adding in a new dimension as well that gives a 3rd way to get Victory Points.

Changes:
  Removed Advanced Machines and Xeno Materials and their attendant buildings. Advanced machines are substituted with 2 normal Machines.
  Complexes now benefit from economy of scale, allowing a fully staffed building to produce 3 items instead of 2 (material costs are still 1-1, though).
  Survey Station now provides Basic Raw/Rare Raw/1 VP for U/S/E.
  Added Rehabilitation center to allow Criminals to be converted into Unskilled.
  Adding Military Buildings - These buildings allow you to train colonists into Soldiers or Officers, which can be Deployed off-world during the Trade Phase for VP.
     Barracks - Trains Unskilled+ into Soldiers
     Officer School - Trains Skilled+ into Officers
     Boot Camp - Trains Criminals into Soldiers
     Military HQ - Provides the Organize phase ability during Production for your Military buildings. Basically, this lets someone going heavy military actually get a decent production chain going. Otherwise you'd end up behind everyone else since you'd need 4 phases to do everything (Colonize for new people to train, Production to train them, Trade to get the VP, and Organize to get new people into the Military buildings to train).

Military should add a nice dimension to the game. It gives you a way to reduce your number of unused Colonists while gaining VP, and is easy to dabble in. Going heavy into Military requires a fair amount of investment, but should be a viable path.

[Mephansteras]

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