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Nevlas gaia project6/17/2023 It is therefore worth considering their distribution right from the start even though they may not be accessible/useful until the late game. The advanced favour tiles, at the top of the science tracks, can be game changing. In particular, players of Terra Mystica often forget to consider planet distribution, since the land tile distribution is never randomised in Terra Mystica. The most important ones to consider, which do not appear in Terra Mystica, are the distribution of the favour tiles and advanced favour tiles across the science tracks and the distribution of planets on the main game board. So, it would seem that always trying to use the same trick doesn’t necessarily work that well! This is a key point about Gaia Project – the inter-game variables are so important that you really can’t afford to get stuck on any one particular strategic pathway. You’ll have to work out how to use each faction’s special abilities for yourself. Unfortunately, with so many factions to pick from, I can’t write an individual post about each of them. If you aren’t making regular use of your special abilitie(s), and in a way that actually helps you rather than just for the sake of it, then you won’t win. The faction powers are even more important in Gaia Project than in Terra Mystica. Jonathan has already made a thorough comparison of Terra Mystica and Gaia Project here, so I will just say that I like Gaia Project better because I think the inter-game variables are more strategically significant. So, now that people will actually understand what I’m talking about, let’s get down to business. Maliciously twerking someone’s understanding of language like that can be very cruel. Calling them quickies has already got me into trouble a couple of times, and I must say that I think it is thoroughly disgraceful to deliberately teach someone the wrong word like that, particularly when it is a word with sexual connotations. One other word that I’m liable to use incorrectly, for which I have the friend who taught me the game to thank, is “quickie.” This is how I was taught to refer to “Quantum Intelligence Cubes” (QICs), or as most players will know them, the small green plastic thingies that are not quantum, not intelligent and for some reason not even cubes. We will therefore have to start with a glossary: Terra Mystica two, or “ Gaia Project” as it’s being marketed, is so similar to Terra Mystica that I haven’t even learned the new set of names for the buildings and resources, and keep referring to them by the old ones.
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