So is the next phase Explore?
Kaylee: Is that him? Mal: That's the buffet table. Kaylee: Well how can we be sure, unless we question it?
'Shindig'
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Connie Neil - Jul 18, 2015 11:10:55 am PDT #24559 of 26133
brillig
billytea - Jul 18, 2015 1:15:23 pm PDT #24560 of 26133
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
RftG
Sorry, I left that part out, didn't I? The first step of every round is for each player to play one of their Action cards to choose a Phase. Only those Phases selected by at least one player will take place, so at this stage, I don't know whether Explore is going to happen this round.
The players' choices get revealed simultaneously, so:
All players, please email me your choice of Action card. Once I have everyone's choice, I will reveal all of them.
Connie Neil - Jul 18, 2015 2:58:07 pm PDT #24561 of 26133
brillig
mine sent
billytea - Jul 19, 2015 3:43:39 pm PDT #24562 of 26133
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
RftG
Update: I have Action cards from three of the players. Waiting on the last one to start the round.
omnis_audis - Jul 19, 2015 9:20:12 pm PDT #24563 of 26133
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
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Sorry. Thought we said starting on Monday. Email sent.
Still feeling my way in the dark. Hoping beginners luck favors me, and not the other beginners.
billytea - Jul 19, 2015 10:13:17 pm PDT #24564 of 26133
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
RftG
I have everyone's choice of action card; the players have chosen:
omnis: Phase IV ($)
askye: Phase III
Connie Neil: Phase I (+5)
chrismg: Phase II
Phases I, II, III and IV have been selected by one of the players, so Round 1 will consist of those Phases. Phase V was not selected by anyone, so it will be skipped.
We start with Phase I - Explore. Every player will draw two cards and keep one. This Phase was chosen by Connie, who gets a bonus. There are two possible bonuses a player may select for this Phase; Connie has chosen to draw 5 extra cards to look at (but will still keep just one).
Cards are going out now. Everyone, when you're ready, please let me know which card you keep.
billytea - Jul 20, 2015 2:13:44 pm PDT #24565 of 26133
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
RftG
Everyone has chosen which card to keep from their exploration. Next is Phase II - Develop. Everyone may, if they wish, add a development to their layout by discarding a number of cards from their hand equal to its cost. chrismg is the one who chose this Phase, so he gets a 1-card discount off the cost of playing a development.
Everyone, please let me know which development (if any) you would like to play, and which card(s) you discard to pay for it.
billytea - Jul 22, 2015 2:10:08 am PDT #24566 of 26133
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
RftG
On to Phase II! Let's see who plays a development.
omnis and Connie both pass on developments. They save their cards. askye, however, plays Investment Credits. This card gives her a 1-card discount on any future developments. It costs 1 discard to play.
chrismg plays Interstellar Bank. In future, whenever we resolve Phase II, he draws 1 card before any developing takes place. It normally costs 2 discards, but chrismg selected Phase II, so he gets a 1-card discount on the cost. It costs him 1 discard.
That's it for Phase II. Phase III (Settle) is next. There's a whole new world out there! Possibly several.
billytea - Jul 22, 2015 2:31:28 am PDT #24567 of 26133
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
RftG
This time, chrismg passes on playing a world. omnis plays Rebel Fuel Cache. This is a Brown windfall world, so it appears in his layout with a good already attached. That'll become relevant next Phase. It is also a 1-strength military world. omnis has a military strength of 1 (from Epsilon Eridani), so he may play this world (no discards).
askye plays Comet Zone. This is a Brown production world. It produces a Brown good when we resolve Phase V; it also gives askye a card draw when it produces a good. It costs 3 discards to play; but askye gets a 1-card discount on playing Brown worlds (from Alpha Centauri). It costs 2 discards, which happens to be the number of cards askye has left in her hand. But! askye is the one who selected Phase III. Therefore she draws 1 card after playing a world.
Connie also plays a world, Former Penal Colony. This is a Blue windfall world, so it starts with a good already attached. It is also, like omnis' play, a 1-strength military world. Connie has a military strength of 2 (from New Sparta), so she may play this world (no discards). Finally, this world increases Connie's military strength by 1, to 3 strength.
That concludes Phase III. Phase IV (Consume) is next.
billytea - Jul 22, 2015 3:22:06 am PDT #24568 of 26133
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
RftG
Phase IV. There are three players with trade goods at the moment - omnis has a Brown trade good, as does askye. Connie has a Blue good. However, askye and Connie have no Consume powers, so their goods go unconsumed. chrismg has a consume power but no good to consume on it. Nothing happening there.
Finally there's omnis, who has a good and a consume power. However, he's the one who chose this phase, and he chose Consume (Trade). Instead of consuming his one good, he trades it to draw 3 cards.
Note too that omnis did not have that trade good at the start of the turn. He got it by settling a windfall world in Phase III - which he did not choose. He took a gamble that at least one other player would choose Phase III, or else his own choice would be wasted. Gutsy move.