Octopus Overlords

El Guapo wrote:I'll spend 1 time on advertising to place a disk onto networking.

I'll then spend my last time in my meeting room, to gain 1 info.

I do too have 1 info.

El Guapo wrote:

El Guapo wrote:I'll spend 1 time on advertising to place a disk onto networking.

I'll then spend my last time in my meeting room, to gain 1 info.

I do too have 1 info.

My mistake, I'd forgotten I hadn't updated the spreadsheet after your turn.

GTBA, it's your action now.

I'm working late tonight, so I'm gonna have to do my turn tomorrow (Saturday). Sorry for the delay.

I'll take the 1 extra time disk for next turn.

GreatToBeAlive wrote:I'll take the 1 extra time disk for next turn.

All right. That leaves Newcastle, who'll take the 2 info.

That's all for Marketing this turn.

Outlet Phase

Both Newcastle and myself have disks in the Outlets. We gain each gain a cube, and our disk there is put back in our general supply.

Note that only a single cube is placed in the Outlets each turn, so the cheapest spot next turn will be empty, forcing players to pay a bit more for a "cheap" cube on turn 2.

Manufacture Products:

There's only 1 disks at the Factory, and I move my disk there to the highest spot on the Retail sales spot, at 16 bucks.



If there were more disks, we'd place them in the spots in the order they were placed in the Factory.

Sell Products

During this phase, the Economic Forecast card for the turn is revealed.

The back of the first card in the deck is Stable.

As mentioned in the guide thread, each of the EF cards has two bits of info:

Consumers: How many customers demand goods in the Retail outlets
Unemployed: How far the job market track slides down

For a Stable market, there’s three different cards, and two copies of each:

Stable A: 3 Consumers / 3 Unemployed
Stable B: 4/2
Stable C: 5/1

I’ll now randomly decide which of the 3 results we get:

A: 1,2
B: 3,4
C: 5,6



We get card B!



There is 4 demand. Sadly, there’s only 1 good in the Retail space:



So, despite being lowest in Pop, I sell my single good for 16 bucks. My token is removed to my general supply.

For future turns, there is now 5 cards in the EF deck, and thus card B is less likely to make an appearance.

Construct Improvements

No one placed a disk in the Construction Company this turn, so there's nothing to resolve here.

Reorganize/End of Example Turn 1

Now we do some cleanup:

Downsize:
Each player may choose to fire an employee, losing those Time Disks and moving their CEO up a spot, this is to save money. I’ll assume no one wants to do this one this turn.

Reset Time Markers:
Each player gets a stack of Time markers back

El Guapo: 7
GTBA: 8 (including his Pop. Bonus marker)
Newcastle:7
SpaceLord:4


Update Boards:

Stock Outlets: The 2nd spot in the Outlet gains 1 Supply cube, and the cheapest spot remains empty

Adjust Popularity:

Everyone slides down 1 spot.
Spot 1 : El Guapo
Spot 0: GTBA, Newcastle, then SpaceLord

Assess Job Market:
Per the EF card drawn earlier, there are now 2 Unemployed, so the track moves 2 spots down



Forecast Economy:

The next EF card is revealed to also be Stable.

Both my games are going on hiatus, I'm on vacation.

I'll be back next week.

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About time someone updated this game.

That's what happens when you get in on the ground floor.