Grzegorz Kobiela
Germany
Hanover
Lower Saxony
Stalker!!!
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Uwe asked me to ask YOU if you've got any ideas for new special buildings that might be published in Essen. Please psot your ideas, as soon as possible, and test them, if you can. We will test them as well and maybe some of them will make it to a little expansion deck in Essen. Uwe has already got many new ideas on his own and they are currently tested. So, if you want to see a building of yours, hurry up!
Please, DO NOT post here any more. Thanks!
The discussion will be continued in the geeklist.
http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/44137
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Jason G
Australia
Melbourne
Victoria
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Building: Lookout Games HQ
Cost: 30f
Action: 1 wood x1-> 1 copy of Mercator
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Ken Roberts
United States
Virginia
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I think a building that allowed you to exchange one basic type of good for another would be useful. Maybe it would also allow you to exchange non-basic goods, but you would have to pay a franc to make that exhange.
Mercantile Exchange
Cost: 2 wood/1 clay
Allows you to exchange any one type of basic good for one type of any other basic good, up to three units may be exchanged. Or, you may exchange any one type of non-basic good for one type of any other non-basic good at a cost of 1 franc per exchange, for a maximum of two units.
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Jason G
Australia
Melbourne
Victoria
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kenjy wrote: Cost: 2 wood/1 clay
I thought there was a building that already allows the exchange of goods.
At any rate, I think you need the cost in Francs, right? Special buildings come out at certain times and can't be built (unless it's like the stadium).
Correct me if I'm wrong. I've only played three times.
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Ken Roberts
United States
Virginia
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mercantile exhange
I didn't think there was a place where general exchanges could be made, but I've only played a few times myself, so maybe I missed it. I looked over a player aid that listed the buildings, and didn't see one. I'll have to double-check the actual cards tonight.
Forgot that this was for special buildings only.
Suggested building cost: 8
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Brian Cherry
Canada
North Bay
Ontario
Obligitory Smart-Ass Comment Here
Shhhhhhhh!
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I have some rough, untested and uncosted ideas:
Soup Kitchen
(Has food production table same as a ship)
Building Permit Office
(Occupy to raise ANY building in one of the 3 building piles to the top of its pile)
Automobile Plant
(Pay energy to turn Steel into francs)
I love special buildings. And I really would like to see a means of more entering the game.
Jugg
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Luîs
United States
Mesa
Arizona
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kenjy wrote: I didn't think there was a place where general exchanges could be made, but I've only played a few times myself, so maybe I missed it. I looked over a player aid that listed the buildings, and didn't see one. I'll have to double-check the actual cards tonight.
Forgot that this was for special buildings only.
Suggested building cost: 8
Only have one game in so far, but there were several times that we wanted to trade goods with each other.
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Matt Tonks
United Kingdom
Milton Keynes (one stop away on the train from Arkham & Dunwich...!)
Bedfordshire
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Bulk Buy Warehouse.
Cost to buy: 8.
Cost to use: 2 food/1 Franc.
The player may buy any number of upgraded goods for the value of the good(s) +1.
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Eric Boivin
Canada
Montréal
Québec
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Hum, sounds like a fun exercise! Let's see what I can dig up quick...
-Subprefecture: A building which gives a rebate to purchase a building currently owned by the town
-Real Estate Company: A building which allows you to sell a building for its full value
-Luxury Smokehouse: 1 wood + 1 charcoal + 1 fish --> 3 smoked fishes
-Fishermen tavern: A building that allows to trade 1 Franc(or 1 meat?) for 3 fishes
-Boat Rental: Pick the topmost boat from the lowest quality available. At each interest phase, pay 1 Franc, or return it on its supply stack. It has a value of 0 while it is rented. Limit of 1 rented boat per player.
-Public Market: Exchange one resource for another one of same exact monetary value. Limit of 3 times each turn.
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Grzegorz Kobiela
Germany
Hanover
Lower Saxony
Stalker!!!
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kenjy wrote: Allows you to exchange any one type of basic good for one type of any other basic good, up to three units may be exchanged. Or, you may exchange any one type of non-basic good for one type of any other non-basic good at a cost of 1 franc per exchange, for a maximum of two units.
Interesting concept. Uwe will definitely do something like this.
the1jugg wrote: Soup Kitchen
(Has food production table same as a ship)
This idea is great! Uwe loves it.
Quote: Building Permit Office
(Occupy to raise ANY building in one of the 3 building piles to the top of its pile)
Uwe has already something similar.
Quote: Automobile Plant
(Pay energy to turn Steel into francs)
This would be an end building and completely useless at the beginning and in the middle of the game. Therefore NO, sorry.
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Andrew Smith
United Kingdom
Stockport
Cheshire
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Recycling plant: turns 3 standard goods into one basic good (low value goods), and turns 3 upgraded goods into one high value good (eg iron, coal).
You could make this 2:1 if this seems weedy as most special buildings are rather nice.
Andrew
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Scott Anderson
United States
Casper
Wyoming
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Ponton wrote: kenjy wrote: Automobile Plant
(Pay energy to turn Steel into francs) This would be an end building and completely useless at the beginning and in the middle of the game. Therefore NO, sorry.
Actually this is one of my favorite ideas for a special building. Perhaps because I have occasionally got to the 'final turn' with steel, but fell just short of being able to either ship it or build a steel ship/luxury liner.
Besides, there are at least a few other buildings that are end-game only and virtually useless at the beginning/middle stages -- I don't see this as being any different than some of the other buildings that only get used at the end.
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Grzegorz Kobiela
Germany
Hanover
Lower Saxony
Stalker!!!
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Of course, you're a little bit right, but there aren't sooo many of them. I can only think of the Workers' Cottages as one. Which others did you have in mind?
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KAS
United States
Arlington
Virginia
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Speedracer513 wrote: Ponton wrote: kenjy wrote: Automobile Plant
(Pay energy to turn Steel into francs) This would be an end building and completely useless at the beginning and in the middle of the game. Therefore NO, sorry. Actually this is one of my favorite ideas for a special building. Perhaps because I have occasionally got to the 'final turn' with steel, but fell just short (energy-wise) of being able to either ship it or build a steel ship/luxury liner. Besides, there are at least a few other buildings that are end-game only and virtually useless at the beginning/middle stages -- I don't see this as being any different than some of the other buildings that only get used at the end.
Doesn't the Stadium fall into to this category since it is required to only be available to build when one of the building spaces is fully depleted?
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Steve Kearon
United Kingdom
Cardiff
Feeling great. How about you?
The once and future game
The once and future game
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For those that would like to add a bit of screwage to the game:
The Bordello:
As your building action, you can move another player's token into the Bordello (entry fee 3F). The other player pays the entry fee. He also pays 1F every turn until he leaves the Bordello. If the other player doesn't have enough money to pay, he must take a loan.
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Marcus Lau
Malaysia
Petaling jaya
Selangor
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Ponton wrote: Uwe asked me to ask YOU if you've got any ideas for new special buildings that might be published in Essen. Please psot your ideas, as soon as possible, and test them, if you can. We will test them as well and maybe some of them will make it to a little expansion deck in Essen. Uwe has already got many new ideas on his own and they are currently tested. So, if you want to see a building of yours, hurry up!
What about :
Sea Port
Hammer symbol/Industrial building
Cost : 12F
Entry fee : 1 food
The owner of this building may ship up to +1 goods when using Shipping Line at the cost of 1F.
(2 power) ==(1x)==> one ship to ship out goods
(6 power) ========> per ship to ship out goods.
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Grzegorz Kobiela
Germany
Hanover
Lower Saxony
Stalker!!!
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kneumann wrote: Doesn't the Stadium fall into to this category since it is required to only be available to build when one of the building spaces is fully depleted?
Depending on your group and the layout of the buildings, this might be a mid-game building. But you're right. The MS Dagmar also is an end-game special building. The only common thing for all of those buildings is, they don't provide any action.
Oh, and to make this clear: I only posted, what Uwe said. I was completely OK with your building, although, however, I generally don't like buildings that can't be used right away. This said, yes, I don't like Football Stadium and MS Dagmar. Workers' Cottages, on the other hand, add another tactical decision: do I buy it now or do I wait and risk that another player does so?
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What could possibly go wrong?
United States
Bridgeton
Missouri
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Book Bindery
Hammer symbol/Industrial building(?)
Cost : 5F
Entry fee : 1 food
2 WOOD --> 1/2 Franc
or
1 LEATHER --> 4 Franc
There are no special buildings that allow change of just wood into Francs. Wood is so important to the beginning of the game that this would add a further choice: Do I use the wood for building or change it into cash?
For the later game, the option of changing Leather into cash, without needing a second good to accompany it, might make producing Leather a more attractive prospect (No one ever produces leather in our games).
{Also, Book Binderies used to believe that Leather binding a book helped to preserve it: No one does that now, so it's historical}
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What could possibly go wrong?
United States
Bridgeton
Missouri
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Where's the evil? Here it is.
Tax Agent
Government building
Cost: 12F
Entry fee: None
When activated by a player, all players must immediately pay 5 Francs. Players unable to do so must take a loan.
Loan Interest now costs 2 Francs. A player who owns this building only pays 1 Franc in interest.
The bit about owning gives encouragement for a money-rich player to purchase the building, reducing their available cash (for balance).
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Phil Sauer
United States
Willow Street
Pennsylvania
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SteveK2 wrote: For those that would like to add a bit of screwage to the game:
The Bordello:
As your building action, you can move another player's token into the Bordello (entry fee 3F). The other player pays the entry fee. He also pays 1F every turn until he leaves the Bordello. If the other player doesn't have enough money to pay, he must take a loan.
Funny... this was the very first thing I thought of for some odd reason. Then you made it real. Interesting how that happens sometimes.
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Steve Kearon
United Kingdom
Cardiff
Feeling great. How about you?
The once and future game
The once and future game
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aaxiom wrote: SteveK2 wrote: For those that would like to add a bit of screwage to the game:
The Bordello:
As your building action, you can move another player's token into the Bordello (entry fee 3F). The other player pays the entry fee. He also pays 1F every turn until he leaves the Bordello. If the other player doesn't have enough money to pay, he must take a loan. Funny... this was the very first thing I thought of for some odd reason. Then you made it real. Interesting how that happens sometimes.
That'll be 3 Francs, please.
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Matt Tonks
United Kingdom
Milton Keynes (one stop away on the train from Arkham & Dunwich...!)
Bedfordshire
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Uwe/Ponton,
Is the intention for any more potential special buildings to use as some kind of bonus, like 12 from last year? If we were to see more special buildings, I think a lot of us would prefer to pay for a whole set - or be able to donate to Lookout's charity - on the spot rather than get one card per 10 Euros spent or do the donation post-Essen.
Cheers,
Matt...
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Greg Perschbacher
United States
Chandler
Arizona
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Quote: For those that would like to add a bit of screwage to the game:
The Bordello:
As your building action, you can move another player's token into the Bordello (entry fee 3F). The other player pays the entry fee. He also pays 1F every turn until he leaves the Bordello. If the other player doesn't have enough money to pay, he must take a loan.
I think this or an idea like it is a good idea and creates more interaction.
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Ken Roberts
United States
Virginia
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Pawn Shop
Pawn Shop
Cost: 8 Francs
Upon entering, player may sell up to 4 of any goods:
1/2 franc for each basic good
1 franc for each non-basic good
Any goods sold remain on card
or
Player may buy any existing goods on card
1 franc for each basic good
2 francs for each non-basic good
Card starts with one of each basic good placed and non-basic good stacked on it.
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Plague World Cylon
United States
Shelton
Connecticut
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kenjy wrote: Pawn Shop
Cost: 8 Francs
Upon entering, player may sell up to 4 of any goods:
1/2 franc for each basic good
1 franc for each non-basic good
Any goods sold remain on card
or
Player may buy any existing goods on card
1 franc for each basic good
2 francs for each non-basic good
Card starts with one of each basic good placed and non-basic good stacked on it.
I vaguely recall there being a card like this already. (I could easily be wrong.)
dreadpirate wrote: Book Bindery
Hammer symbol/Industrial building(?)
Cost : 5F
Entry fee : 1 food
2 WOOD --> 1/2 Franc
or
1 LEATHER --> 4 Franc
I like this idea, though I'd make it something like:
1 WOOD + 1 LEATHER ---4x---> 6 Francs
The 6F is based off leather giving 4F if you ship it. Maybe drop it to 5F, but I wanted it to be worth using. The joinery already provides an option to directly convert wood into coins. There's also that clothing special building, though I forget what the power looks like.
EDIT: Yep, the Pawnbroker from Le Havre Expansion: Essen Promo Cards.
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