Cool spreadsheet! (words I thought I would never type together ;))

I love the auctions because they make the game less random: there's no benefit to drawing the first position when there's an obvious pick for a faction, nor to drawing the last position when there's none and only one great booster.

It also serves to make the weaker factions more playable. I like playing all the factions (love the Lantids, but even like the occasional Gleen game), but its quite rare for it to make sense to pick Gleen over the Taklons or Ivits when there's no bidding.

I also don't really like picking a faction first when there are three more players to pick and you've essentially got no idea what game you'll end up playing (I know it is still technically a perfect information game, but it clashes with the 0 randomness aspect that I love about Gaia).

@ariallito B

It might be nice if a table could opt not to kick a player when their timer expires (but maybe they should still take the karma hit to discourage ignoring the timer).

Thanks, somehow managed to overlook that button!

If it's still possible, I would like to join too.

It is a: your local time.

I think it would be nice if you could have the app pick the 4 factions that will be auctioned off randomly. That way you get to play all the permutations of factions, which is really cool (and that greater kind variety is kinda the whole of the point of having the auctions) and you could never get deliberate trash picks.

Thanks for organizing this, was a lot of fun!

I'm also really disappointed about the disappearance of the previous style of bidding.

Really like the idea of bidding on randomly selected factions.

@ariallito B

Cool spreadsheet! (words I thought I would never type together ;))

@ariallito count me in!

@asianninja is it possible they only could charge 1pw (all their power was in bowl 3 after charging 1?).

Thanks for organizing this, was a lot of fun!

Points for the top of the gaia project track are also counted under research.

That's really great. Thank you so much!

In this game: https://www.boardgamers.space/game/Euro-Cup-final-group2, one of the players (Wy) was dropped from the game, even though none of the other players kicked them (their time was expired though).

This is rather unfortunate, because this game is part of a tournament that we've been playing since January (fun experiment where we each play every faction on the same seed). It would be really sad to see it end because of this. It would be really great if there was anyway for someone (developer/mod) to undo this.

Cool! That's great news :)

Helge also specifies a couple of other actions cannot be wasted entirely, that I think you could still here:

Is it legal to take the 1/2 terraform step power action and build a mine on a Gaia Planet (i.e. not use any free steps)? NO!

Is it legal to take the Gain a Tech Tile QIC action if there is no tech tile you can take? NO!

Is it legal to take the 1/2 terraform step power action and not build a mine? NO!