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That's what all new players says in the beginning. But if you take a moment or play more games, you will realize it's all the same if everyone does two actions. If anyone needed to one action, you simply one action back. Selling one card counts as an action, so if it's agreed, you can always force ...

Some competitive venues prohibit in game note taking and some allow them. When playing competitively; I'd rather have everyone's best game so I'd opt for notes allowed. I'd rather play a longer game where everyone has the tools to make the most informed decisions versus a bit less longer game that ...

RoyalRook wrote: ↑15 May 2024, 01:27 It doesn’t matter. It’s math, read it.

It absolutely does. If you understood the math, you'd know why. The strength of various corps varies wildly depending on player count, what expansions are in play, and game length.

It’s a general accepted principle to evaluate the game on a gen 9 basis, when most of the 3p game finishes. There are many articles out there, but this one is my favorite, if you want to go down the rabbit hole with us, check this out: https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/72415/terraforming-mars-valu...

I've gotten used to the live scoring on here, so I don't mind it much any more, but I find it a bit absurd to believe that all strong players are keeping exact running tallies of the exact score of every player in an OTB game. Sure, all project cards are technically public knowledge. And if a player...

Can't you use the function already provided in the top right when setting up a table to restrict other players ELO to ensure you don't play with players several bands below you? If someone leaves then the calc should have you beat someone and draw with someone of similar level and ELO should be gra...

What is the alternative you are proposing? Should we build some extensive AI that will calculate how the game would have ended and award ELO based on that? :p You either neutralize the results fully, or you let the ELO-calculation do it's thing. I don't know of a great solution. The minimal fix tha...

I was playing a three player game in which I was going to win, everyone had passed for the last gen, and all that was left was for every player to play their last greenery from the plant production of the final production step. But after passing for the end of the gen, the player in last place just ...

Yet another reason 1 action may be necessary I haven't seen mentioned. Suppose in a single generation that you have exactly 3 actions you want to do. For example, suppose you have zero energy production and you need to play Earth Office in order to have enough money to play Lunar Beam which gives 2 ...