Tribe.net. Local Connections Darth Paul http://catananites.tribe.net/thread/4c01da75-7192-442f-91b1-4751e4008348#e0ab1943-d931-496f-a8a0-e5da2b5631f4 2004-12-20T20:10:25Z 2004-12-20T20:10:25Z

This kind of thing isn't necessary when you play with Cities and Knights. If you can develop enough to build an Aquaduct you get a resource on turn where the roll would not normally give you one.

Darth Paul 2004-12-20T20:10:25Z Riley http://catananites.tribe.net/thread/4c01da75-7192-442f-91b1-4751e4008348#7f8b65c7-b048-416f-a645-d1fcd6c025cc 2003-11-04T23:43:25Z

A variant rule: whenever a non-7 roll yields you no resources, you get a poverty token. On your turn, you can trade in poverty tokens for a resource card of your choice. Number of tokens required for a resource equals your current VPs. - I hear this speeds up the initial game, and gives stragglers a chance to catch up with winners; less relevant in endgame, since by then most players have spread out enough to be getting a resource on most numbers, and the cost goes up. There are, of course, sub-variations... whether you can hoard up a pile of tokens, or have to spend them whenever you have enough for a purchase; whether you can trade them; etc. If you try it, post the results! (Alas, not available in online play.)

Riley 2003-11-04T23:43:25Z ivan http://catananites.tribe.net/thread/4c01da75-7192-442f-91b1-4751e4008348#41beb081-7268-4359-8144-e8c69dbd0255 2003-11-06T06:25:08Z

this is new to me... sounds interesting. Might take a lil out off the placement stratergy as I can place on a low production intersection and it would still yield the tokens. Could be abused using development cards if you think about it a lil :p I heard of another method to speed up the game... where the table rerolls any 7s for the first 2 turns.

ivan 2003-11-06T06:25:08Z Jessica http://catananites.tribe.net/thread/4c01da75-7192-442f-91b1-4751e4008348#30b7e854-7a42-4c3d-ba7c-65313d48737d 2003-11-07T20:46:34Z

Equals your current VPs as shown to everyone else, or counting VP cards? I assume the former, right?

Jessica 2003-11-07T20:46:34Z Riley http://catananites.tribe.net/thread/4c01da75-7192-442f-91b1-4751e4008348#b812ca43-8bbf-45da-aaba-1c4c7936b43c 2003-11-08T18:19:22Z

It's a variant. If you can think of more than one way to apply it, try both/all, see which you prefer, let us know! If/when I get a FTF game to try it, I'll start with visible VPs, since I'd rather not require people to expose dev cards. If people hoard up tokens, and if that seems a drag, I'd consider a rule that if you have 8 or more tokens, you lose half of them when 7 is rolled. (which makes them even more irrelevant in endgame, when you need 7-9 tokens to trade in.)

Riley 2003-11-08T18:19:22Z Malex http://catananites.tribe.net/thread/4c01da75-7192-442f-91b1-4751e4008348#ef645b6b-dbfb-45d1-823c-708d7e0891ed 2003-11-08T23:38:12Z

Only if you've already played the devo cards, which would be pretty silly in any case.

Malex 2003-11-08T23:38:12Z