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Actions:
1 - Exploit – discard a card from your hand.
- Urbanization card = take either a resource or a tile from the general supply
- Building card:
- red card: you get resources
- blue card: you get tiles
- yellow card: you get success points
- The number of items you gain is determined by the height of the designated building. For each floor of the building, you get one item: a 1-floor building generates 1 item, a 2-floor building generates 2, etc.
- Earn items from your Exploit Tableau if applicable.
2- Urbanization - When you play an Urbanization card with a tile, you expand the city by adding a new building on the outskirts.
- Select a tile in your supply and a Letter card in your hand
- Place the tile at the corresponding Letter token on the board
- Place 1 of your resources on the tile to mark you own this level 1 building.
- Move the Urbanization token you just replaced to an orthogonally adjacent empty space.
- You utilize the buildings orthogonally adjacent to the one you just placed. “Utilizing a building” allows you to earn the items as if you had played those buildings’ cards by themselves.
- Earn items from your Urbanizing Tableau if applicable.
3 – Construction - Playing a Building card with a tile When you play a Building card with a tile, you add a floor by placing the new tile on the building in the city indicated by the card.
- Return the resources present on the building designated by the card to their owner
- If the owner of the building is another player, she receives 1 success point per resource returned to her.
- Place the tile you played atop the building designated by the card.
- If the number on the tile you are playing is less than the number on the tile you are covering, you must pay the difference in success points
- If the color of the tile you’re playing is different than the one you are covering, pay 1 more resource.
- Place 1 resource per level of the new building on the tile.
- Earn items from your Construction Tableau if applicable.
- Keep the played card face-up in your area. This card will give you its bonus for the rest of the game. There are 2 types of bonuses: permanent bonuses (with black arrow), which are activated throughout the game, endgame bonuses (with the “=” icon), which will give you success points in the final scoring.