1. There are three ages in this game: Antique i quess, and... What next? Medieval&Renaissance? Industrial&information ages? Does every age has separate deck?
Or maybe there is only one historical age (Antique) with some smaller subages (Bronze Age? Hellenes? Roman Empire?)

2. What kind of cards players will dealt with? Wonders? Units? Leaders? Events?

3. When I read that "7 Wonders is a card development game along the lines of Race for the Galaxy or Dominion", I presume, that some expansions are already planned?

4. There will be rather a bunch of different and unique cards (like in RftG), or just multiple copies of the same cards (like in Dominion)

Essen2010

Draft mechanic + light civ theme + RFTG feel = massively radared.

Draft mechanic? Excited!

Light civ theme? Really excited!

RFTG feel?...

I tried the last prototype this Weekend.

In my opinion, it could be the next Dominion. It's not out yet but I can't wait for an expansion !

Now THAT gets me excited. So for now, I'm just seeing what happens...

For those who can understand a bit of french, check out those videos:

http://www.trictrac.net/index.php3?id=tv&rub=live_cannes_201...
http://www.trictrac.net/index.php3?id=tv&rub=live_cannes_201...

I wish it played with 2 players, so that I could be excited too…

I : INTRODUCTION

Each player has a little individual gameboard representing one of the 7 wonders. Each wonder's contruction is divided into three "steps". On your gameboard you'll find the cost of each step, and the reward you get for building it. Those are differents for each player.
Gameboards have two sides : a beginner side and an advanced side.

There are 7 resources : 4 natural resources (Wood, clay, ore, stone) and 3 manufactured resources (papyrus, cloth, ceramic). Both resources types work the same way.

First of all, I am gonna explain you how to use resources : there are no "resource tokens" or anything like that.
Let's say that you have built a "clay pit'. I produces 1 clay. With this, you can build a building that costs 1 clay, but you can't build one that costs 2 clays. You don't really spend resources : either you have it or not.
If you don't have the resources you need, you can buy the missing ones to your 2 neighbours. One resource costs 2 golds (the game currency, represented by wooden tokens). In the previous example, if one of your neighbours also has a "clay pit", you'll just give him 2 golds (HE CANNOT REFUSE), and built something with those 2 clays. IMPORTANT : even if you have bought one resource to another player, that player can still use that resource and build something with it !

Each player starts the game producing one resource (7 players-7 resources), indicated on his gameboard.

Each player receives 3 golds, then the game can begin !

II : THE GAME

The game lasts for 3 periods of 6 turns each. Each period has its own deck of cards.
At the beginning of each period, you receive 7 cards. You pick one of them, and give the rest to the player on your left. Then, players play their cards simultaneously.

When you play a card, you have 3 posibilities :
- Building the card : You just reveal the card and put it in front of you. Of course, you must produce or buy the requested resources. Some 1st period cards are free.
- Builing one "step" of your wonder : You do not reveal the card and put it face down in front of you, no matter which card it actually is. You have to pay this step's price as well.
- Selling the card : You discard that card face down, and take 3 golds from the bank.

Then you take the 6 cards the player on your right gave you, pick one, and so on...

After 6 turns (6 cards), the period is over, i.e. when you receive 2 cards from your neightbour, you pick one last card and discard the 7th card, face down.

Finally, players compare their military forces. There are cards that give military points. If you have more miltary points than your left/right neighbour, you take one "victory token" that will give you some VPs in the end. If you have less military points, you take one "defeat token" that will make you lose some VPs in the end. Each period has its own victory and defeat tokens (VPs gain and loss gets bigger).


Periods two and three work the same way with the following difference :
- During the second period, cards turn around the table the other way round.
- Some buildings from the first/second period enable you to build specific buildings from the second/third period for FREE.

That is all !

III : SCORING.

It will be modified before the game is realised. But for now, here it is :

- Military : 1 VP for each military point, plus the VP granted by your victory and loss tokens.
- Civil : Civils building don't have any other purpose than giving VP.
- Science : scientific buildings can give you three types of knowledge points. You gain 7 VPs for each group of 3 differents knowledge points. Moreover, for each type of knowledge point you gain the number of points you have of this type, SQUARED.
For instance, if you have those knowledge points : AAA/BB/C, you'll get 7+(3*3)+(2*2)+(1*1) = 21 VPs.
- Wonder : Specific steps of your Wonder give you VPs for being built.
- Gold : 3 golds -> 1 VP.
- Miscellaneous : lots of building will give you special VPs. For instance, there is a one that gives you VPs for each production building you've built. There is another one that gives you VPs for each military building your NEIGHBOURS have built.