Could anyone give one or more examples of a bidding system for game set-up? What do you bid 'with'? I've heard trade goods, but where do you get those?

Also, incidentally, I don't seem to be able register on the TI3Wiki forum (keeps telling me I entered the garbled series of letters incorrectly). Has anyone else had this problem?

For bidding, you are kind of bidding how much the OTHER players start with in TGs.

In the end, each player gets the difference between their maximum bid and the highest bid.

So if the bids were A=9, B=7, C=6, D=2, A would get 0 TGs, B would get 2, C would get 3, and D would get 7. I *think* this is how it works anyway. I never use it, so I may be wrong. The other possibility is that they are all relative to the next-higher bid, where in this case A would get 0, B would get 2, C would get 1 and D would get 4.

We don't "bid" as much as draft.

We will use a pre-made galaxy. We try to it somewhat uniform. Each HW will have the same number of planets drawn randomly around it. The center will be rich and have artifacts. The tiles will be shuffled by type (ex 2 planet tiles) and randomly dispersed to fill the spaces in the galaxy where they belong.

When the galaxy is complete, players roll dice with the player having the highest roll being the first player and getting first choice among:
1. available races (shown to all)
2. starting home world locations labled 1 thur 6. (kept secret from other players by selecting one of the hidden 1-6 chits in a 6 player game)
3. secretly selecting any one of the Special Objective cards.
Play proceeds to the first player’s left until each player has made one choice. Then the last player gets the next choice any play proceeds to his right until each player has selected a race and starting position. (like a snake football draft)
Reseat players to an area close to their home world.

Comment: After using this a couple times we find the first player going for the selection of the Secret Objective. There will be built in intel when drafting. When being the first to choose a starting position, the 2nd player to choose his starting position will know where the first player started by default. Same with the SO, the second player will know what the 1st player took.

If the first player does not know what SO others have, but someone else knows for sure that he has, isn't the first player at a huge disadvantage? I think it would be very easy to prevent him from achieving his SO if I knew what it was, except if he chose a Mecatol Rex SO - those are usually obvious. If you go there, you're probably going for your SO, and since it's likely others are going there as well it is going to be difficult.

Which SO do you see picked the most often?

oldthrashbarg said:

Are you referring to the Shattered Ascension alternative ruleset?

Something else?

Bill

bnorton916 said:

It was just something I'd picked up on the forums, really, but it seems to be in SA as well so that may very well have been were it comes from.

One thing to note is that last system will always have a no bid.

For example if there a 6 systems A-F

A- 5TG

B- 3TG

C- No bid

D- 0TG

E- 1TG

F- 4TG

Now if it is your turn you can bid on planet C but then the bidding is over.

Or you could raise the bid on any other planet and then the next player will bid with the

same options that you previously had.

Hopefully this makes some sense.

Bill

Usually the "I control x planets". The Tech specialities usually go next.