Gamehelpstarshipmerchants

Overview

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Turn

On your turn you have 3 options

Take an action in your current quadrant

Move to the next quadrant and take an action there

Move to the next quadrant and take no action

Shipyard

There are two actions to choose from at this location:

Buy or Lease 1 Starship

Pay off Starship Loans

There are 2 types of Starships: Scouts (more Energy) and Tugs (more Cargo)

You can only purchase starships within the current Mark, at the start it is Mark 1

As the game progresses, older Marks will become obsolete and no longer useable (Mark 1's in Mark 3 era, Mark 2's in Mark 4 era). The available Mark progresses once all ships in the current Mark are bought/loaned.

The number of ships in each mark a player can own is limited to 4 in Mark 1, 4 in Mark 2, 3 in Mark 3, and 2 in Mark 4

Starships cost Credits, shown in the top right

If you cannot afford, or don't want to pay the full credit cost, you can pay half price and take 2 loan markers assigned to that ship

However, each loan marker assigned to a ship costs half its full cost to pay off (i.e. loaning in the long run costs 150% of buying outright)

When entering the Shipyard with Loans, you MUST pay off at LEAST one loan. As paying off a loan is a single action, this would take up your whole turn (so no gaining a new ship through purchasing or loaning). However, you can pay off as many loans as you wish during a pay a loan action to avoid being locked in to this action next visit.

Market

There are 2 actions to choose from in this location, plus a bonus action:

Buy Market Card

Buy Refinery Card

Claim a Mine Token (Bonus)

First off on arrival, you can choose to discard and replace 2 Market cards

There are two types of Market cards: Pilots (Delivery Bonuses) Gear (Ship Bonuses)

Each ship can only have one Pilot and six Gear

Refinery Cards are NOT available on the first visit of the game, but rather become available once any player exits the Dock

Unlike Market Cards, there are no restrictions on the number of Refinery Cards you can own and they apply to ALL your ships

As a bonus to purchasing EITHER a Market or Refinery card, a player can pay 6 credits to flip a Mine Token to claim it

Belt

The only action here is to Run One Starship

Dock

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Game End

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