Fix Race for the Galaxy: The Brink of War

[twitch_tv_unsane]

This expansion is absolutely riddled with bugs, it's almost unbelievable. I've played RFTG more than 3000 times so i know the rules back and front. I played 8x 3-player games today and saw 7 bugs, nearly all game-breaking. And i wasn't even playing with Takeovers on.

Clearly your bug-report system of thumbs does not suffice. The Brink of War is unplayable in its current state.

[sourisdudesert]

Hi,

We're working on it. It would be helpful if you can be specific, for ex by providing links to the most important "game breaking" bugs so we can fix them first.

[twitch_tv_unsane]

I reported them all, here are the ones i know about so far, mainly from just 12 plays of The Brink of War (i spent 2 hours putting this together):

Prestige Leader VP Chips Not Accounted for Properly for 5 VP Goal
Homeworld Selection Gives me 2 Red or 2 Blue Homeworlds Instead of 1 of Each
Once You've Used the Prestige Action, Action Selection on Future Rounds is Broken
Goal: The Negative Military/Takeover Goal Is Doubly Broken
Uplift Gene Breeders, etc. Should Not Fulfill Chromosome Search Category
Search for +1/+2 military dev gave me Imperial Invasion Fleet (+3 military)
Selected Action Is Invisible If Too Many Players Choose Explore
Can't change alien oort cloud refinery type
Galactic Status goal incorrectly awarded for building Pan-Galactic Research
Game Did Not End Gracefully On Imperium Fuel Depot Settle Power
Goal Checking Timing Rules Not Respected - Should be End of Phase not Mid-Phase - Improved Logistics
The Interface Does Not Display Whether Players Have Used Their Once Per Game Action
Galactic Scavenger storage is very buggy and needs to be looked at. It is 100% unplayable since you lose ~half your stored cards, which can amount to a handicap of 5+ cards throughout the game. 6077 5944 5941.

[sourisdudesert]

Thanks.

I'm working on some new stuff for RFTG right now so I'll address them as soon as I'm done with this.

[sourisdudesert]

As I'm processing your list I just figured that a lot of bugs from this list are bugs you reported this week. I appreciate the effort, but my suggestion was indeed to point out existing bugs that are the most "game breaking". If these bugs are game breaking, there are 100% chances that they are already reported, and I prefer to look the original reports (with a lot a game examples and various players comments) than fresh reports.

I'll go though the list anyway, but will focus first on bugs with a lot of votes ...

[twitch_tv_unsane]

These are all game breaking bugs that no one has noticed since you released Brink of War because 99% of players on here don't know the subtleties in the rules and have no idea they are bugs. Your thumbing system doesn't work. Otherwise i wouldn't have found 8-10 game breaking bugs on my first day of playing Brink of War.