![]() ![]() Projects, such as improving ocean coverage or constructing a new piece of infrastructure, require resources to complete. Obtaining certain projects can cost valuable funds, but in turn open up new opportunities for improving a player’s terraforming rating - which contributes toward their final score. ![]() The players look to gradually cultivate Mars’ atmosphere and environment by taking on and fulfilling new projects. The players control competing corporations as they attempt to improve oxygen levels, produce sources of water, cultivate a more comfortable temperature and generally make the otherwise barren planet fit for human existence. Terraforming Mars is a game for one to five players about humans shaping the face of Mars to make the planet a more habitable place. When the three global parameters (temperature, oxygen, ocean) have all reached their goal, the terraforming is complete, and the game ends after that generation.Terraforming Mars is getting a Big Box expansion that brings a whole new level to the strategy game’s Red Planet - quite literally. The turn continues around the table (sometimes several laps) until all players have passed.Ĥ) Production phase: Players get resources according to their terraform rating and production parameters. Each round is called a generation (guess why) and consists of the following phases:Ģ) Research phase: All players buy cards from four privately drawn.ģ) Action phase: Players take turns doing 1-2 actions from these options: Playing a card, claiming a Milestone, funding an Award, using a Standard project, converting plant into greenery tiles (and raising oxygen), converting heat into a temperature raise, and using the action of a card in play. You also compete for different Milestones and Awards worth many VPs. ![]() On the game board, you compete for the best places for your city tiles, ocean tiles, and greenery tiles. However, your income is complemented with your production, and you also get VPs from many other sources.Įach player keeps track of their production and resources on their player boards, and the game uses six types of resources: MegaCredits, Steel, Titanium, Plants, Energy, and Heat. Your basic income, as well as your basic score, is based on your Terraform Rating (starting at 20), which increases every time you raise one of the three global parameters. ![]() Standard Projects are always available to complement your cards. Buying cards is costly, so there is a balance between buying cards (3 megacredits per card) and actually playing them (which can cost anything between 0 to 41 megacredits, depending on the project). Many cards also have requirements and they become playable when the temperature, oxygen, or ocean coverage increases enough. The cards can give you immediate bonuses, as well as increasing your production of different resources. The projects (cards) can represent anything from introducing plant life or animals, hurling asteroids at the surface, building cities, to mining the moons of Jupiter and establishing greenhouse gas industries to heat up the atmosphere. The players acquire unique project cards (from over two hundred different ones) by buying them to their hand. In Terraforming Mars, you play one of those corporations and work together in the terraforming process, but compete for getting victory points that are awarded not only for your contribution to the terraforming, but also for advancing human infrastructure throughout the solar system, and doing other commendable things. Giant corporations, sponsored by the World Government on Earth, initiate huge projects to raise the temperature, the oxygen level, and the ocean coverage until the environment is habitable. In the 2400s, mankind begins to terraform the planet Mars. Terraforming Mars: Big Box also includes three new cards that relate to the three new special tiles, card dividers, and five plastic markers for the global parameters. 14 special tiles (the original eleven, plus three new ones).40 forest tiles (eight each of five designs).24 city tiles (four each of six designs).Terraforming Mars: Big Box is both a storage option for all the Terraforming Mars material released to date - the base game, five expansions, and the first-player rover - and a set of 3D terrain tiles to dress up the game. ![]()
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