SuchANiceGuy
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Thanks for a lovely game, my family just played it for the first time. It was fun and accessible, even though the kids were 8 and 10.
Three questions from our initial play through:
1. This one seems a bit silly in hindsight, but I think we got tricked by the inconsistent wording of "water crops" "water all planted crops" "water all crops once" "water all crops" etc. Can you confirm
a) you only ever move all the crops right; you don't ever move a single crop while leaving other crops untouched
b) the various wordings all translate to "move crops forward [one] space" and don't ever mean "move all crops to the end of the line [and harvest them]"
c) the only mechanism for moving crops more than one space at a time is the watering can, and this doesn't interact with anything else
d) the fact that rain totem triggers lightning rod twice is a random interaction, essentially giving you 6 bonus gold if you happen to own the rod when you use the totem, and there's no other interactions between these cards and any other rain related effects
2. Having read through the answers to other forum posts, I gather resources besides stone are limited, so in the example below, you can't collect six milks based on owning two cows and three cows showing on the dice. We guessed correctly that this was the case, although it would be good to spell this out more clearly in the rule book. It did seem particularly powerful to invest early money in animals and then have everyone roll to collect from animals in the late game! That said, I understand that the Shipping Bin allows this to some extent, as you can sell at any time, so you can still have successive players leveraging the animal investment. My question is, in the example below, can an individual player collect 4 of 6 milks, sell them using the shipping bin, and then collect the remaining 2 of 6 milks?
3. When foraging or collecting wood, you need to follow an adjacent path. If an icon is within a triangle, are all three sides adjacent, or only the two sides that are closest to it? For example, in the picture below, can you collect Wood when moving from "Water The Crops" to Pierre (i.e. adjacent to the triangle) or only when moving from Marnie to Pierre (i.e. on the closest adjacent edge(s), in this case, the bottom path of the triangle). We were playing the latter, but might be playing things on hard mode. I note also the foraging icon in the triangle between Town, Museum and Ocean is pretty much in the center (although we were playing bottom two edges only).
Thanks in advance.
Three questions from our initial play through:
1. This one seems a bit silly in hindsight, but I think we got tricked by the inconsistent wording of "water crops" "water all planted crops" "water all crops once" "water all crops" etc. Can you confirm
a) you only ever move all the crops right; you don't ever move a single crop while leaving other crops untouched
b) the various wordings all translate to "move crops forward [one] space" and don't ever mean "move all crops to the end of the line [and harvest them]"
c) the only mechanism for moving crops more than one space at a time is the watering can, and this doesn't interact with anything else
d) the fact that rain totem triggers lightning rod twice is a random interaction, essentially giving you 6 bonus gold if you happen to own the rod when you use the totem, and there's no other interactions between these cards and any other rain related effects
2. Having read through the answers to other forum posts, I gather resources besides stone are limited, so in the example below, you can't collect six milks based on owning two cows and three cows showing on the dice. We guessed correctly that this was the case, although it would be good to spell this out more clearly in the rule book. It did seem particularly powerful to invest early money in animals and then have everyone roll to collect from animals in the late game! That said, I understand that the Shipping Bin allows this to some extent, as you can sell at any time, so you can still have successive players leveraging the animal investment. My question is, in the example below, can an individual player collect 4 of 6 milks, sell them using the shipping bin, and then collect the remaining 2 of 6 milks?
3. When foraging or collecting wood, you need to follow an adjacent path. If an icon is within a triangle, are all three sides adjacent, or only the two sides that are closest to it? For example, in the picture below, can you collect Wood when moving from "Water The Crops" to Pierre (i.e. adjacent to the triangle) or only when moving from Marnie to Pierre (i.e. on the closest adjacent edge(s), in this case, the bottom path of the triangle). We were playing the latter, but might be playing things on hard mode. I note also the foraging icon in the triangle between Town, Museum and Ocean is pretty much in the center (although we were playing bottom two edges only).
Thanks in advance.
