#Terraforming Mars

[janeway-lover]

begging and pleading with the gods of card shuffling to give me the plant corporation so I can win this game

[tibberg]

Uhh ez egy nagyon jó játék volt most is. A Távoli Gyarmatok kiegészítő bár hosszabbá teszi a játékot, de a plusz nyersanyagok miatt jobban lehet így fejleszteni. Még talán sose volt ennyire beépítve a Mars.

Kb 3.5 óra játékidő. 97, 92, 91 pont lett a vége. Megnyertem 🤩

[typezerostudios]

You know, I didn't expect to find illustration of the wealth disparity in a board game of all places, but here we are.

I was playing Terraforming Mars, where the currency is Megacredits. Pretty much each of these is a million dollars. I was kicking ass, knew I was going to will my solo game, and decided to just start stockpiling money. No more infrastructure, no investment, just saving up my millions.

Game ended, and I had 285 stockpiled, with the equivalent of 40 more in raw materials. That's 325 million, from running an entire planet, over the course of 14 generations (around 300 or 400 years)

So why the fuck do billionaires need a thousand times that much?

Edit: Screenshot of my ill gotten wealth:

[autistic-speedbump]

Wow. Holy shit, it's bad. Not only are they NOT paying their artists after raising $1.3M, but they're training AI on the artists' work without consent. They talk about how they'd 100% support a consent-based AI model, but that those don't exist. The REASON those don't exist is because dipshits like this guy keep using and supporting the nonconsensual AI models. Holy shit.

[bribearoh]

[igotstuckinthevoidhelp]

by far my favourite board game.

[boardgoats]

7th February 2023

Blue, Jade, Plum and Byzantium were first to arrive and started by ordering food and then settled down for a chat.  Pine soon joined them, followed by Teal, Green, Black, Purple and Ivory.  With Lime tucked up in bed fending off his lurgy, and Lilac away for work, it was just Pink who was trapped on the motorway system somewhere between The Jockey and the Frozen North.  So, while food was being…

[cedarbookhs]

Red Rising lore is basically if someone won a game of Terraforming Mars by only building both the most expensive cards and the most morally questionable ones

[brutish-impulse]

Me: Board games are too obsessed with production values these days. No one needs that much plastic!

Also me: The 3D tiles for Terraforming Mars look so neat!

Well, I guess a meaningful difference is that this is an upgrade for superfans that came out long after the release, not the default game. (Also, I didn't buy them, this is a friend's copy.)

[refreshdaemon]

Great theming, interesting engine building, and a touch of area control makes for solid gameplay, hampered by uneven aesthetics/usability of components and wild swings of card draw.

[ronthedunedain]

Interesting idea.

Surely attempting to terraform Mars by releasing 2 million tonnes of ferroalloy nanorods into the Martian atmosphere will go fantastically.

A 30K warming within a decade is honestly astonishing. Absolutely worth the risk of asbestosis for the Elongated Muskrat.

Source: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn4650

[whovian223]

August 2024 Gaming

August 2024 Gaming #boardgames @StrongholdGames @FryxGames @doomlings @gmtgames @BGStatsApp

It’s funny how sometimes month end can sneak up on you. I was going to hold off on writing this post for a bit, until the weekend. Then I realized that my next game day is actually in September! Who would’ve thunk that? Not this guy. So now I can actually write this ahead of time. August was a pretty good month, though mostly fueled by the Dragonflight convention, even though I only played…

[lenrosen]

Elon Musk Wants Humans Living on Mars – He Should Consider Deploying Syntrichia Caninervis Planetwide

[ericdillard108]

Mars Awaits- Humanity's Next Giant Leap in Space Travel!

Colonizing Mars isn’t a dream anymore as plans to colonize Mars are in the works. 

[tabletopbellhop]

I just shared my first thoughts on Terraforming Mars Ares Expedition from Indie Boards and Cards on The Tabletop Bellhop Patreon.

[boardgoats]

3rd September 2024

By the time Blue, Purple and Pine arrived, Cobalt was already half-way through a solo game of Isle of Cats: Explore & Draw, a “roll and write” version of the card-drafting, polyomino cat-tile-placing game, Isle of Cats.  In Explore & Draw, instead of drafting cards before choosing tiles, players choose a set of cards each turn and then draw their “discoveries” on their boats.  In this version of…