Beyond the Sun - Playing with Friends

welcome to jungkook's games today we're going to be playing a full game of beyond the sun and my friends anastasia and nick are going to be joining in now the way this is going to work is i will first teach you the rules of the game and then we'll start playing and all that is going to happen using tabletop simulator after that there will be a post-game podcast episode recorded where we discuss how this play went and the game in general and that is going to be hosted on the friendly ties podcast feed and there will also be a video version of that that you can find on this channel now this is the very first video of this type that we are making and because of that we would love any constructive feedback that you might have about how much you liked it and various other things if you have any thoughts now speaking of the video i would like to ask that if you enjoy it that you please click the like button for it down below and also the subscribe button for the channel in addition to that if you'd like to directly support the channel and the creation of videos like this one in the future then please go to johngetsgames.com support there you'll find a bunch of ways that you can really help things out and many of them come with perks like voting on some of the videos that are filmed each month and watching those videos early and advertisement free well at this point i think it's now time for me to teach you the game let's start things off with a super brief overview of the game before i jump into how it actually plays now what we're doing in this game is communally researching technology and we are going to piggyback off each other's research in order to advance farther down this big board of technologies now on a player's turn they are simply going to move their one pawn to a new worker placement location and then do whatever that location says now many of these locations involve researching new technology and you can follow these lines to get to the new ones for example we could potentially research this technology and then in the future that line could lead over here where we could research that technology and whenever we research any of these we first flip over this card and read an event on the back and then we will draw random technologies from that associated column until we find two of the matching color and then we choose one of those and then that will be the new technology for that spot for example this could be right over here and that will stay there for the rest of the game and if other players want they could research along the same path and learn about this as well but of course the first person is the one that actually puts that there now many of the things that we do in this game involve manipulating our ships over here on the space board and as you can see there are a variety of locations and it's worth noting that this is a double-sided board so it will change with the player count now these are ships and you may have noticed that they also looked a lot like boxes or people and that's because these are multi-use counters they might look like dice but you don't actually roll them now we are going to be sending these ships out to various locations and then we will gain benefits for going there including some income and we can also colonize these locations depending on the colonization factor this will get us the card and we can gain those points and sometimes special effects and again i'll go into all of these details very soon now the ultimate goal of this game is to get points and we get those from a wide variety of areas in the game will end once a certain number of these achievements over here have been completed then we finish the round and play one more round now on that note let's actually talk in more detail about how the game plays and it starts right over here with each player's action pod you only ever get one of these and on your turn you're going to go through three different steps and the first one involves placing this pawn onto a new gray hexagon location so for example you could place this over here and then on your next turn you could place this onto a different one or even a different location associated with the same action you just activated after placing the pawn down you then activate the action that shows and at the start of the game each player just knows a basic space varying so effectively these four different options are the only things players can do at the start of the game now one of the big things in this game is researching technology and the first two of these rows let you do that this top one lets you research a level one technology and the way you do that is you take one of your population cubes from your board and you place it next to a level one technology that you'd like to learn so we can look over here at the board and we have two population so we can take one of these and place it down next to attack when we do this we can place this onto a technology that we have a prerequisite for and the prerequisites are these lines that flow out across the board now everybody knows basic space fairing so that means these four lines show that everyone has the prerequisite for the four level one technologies now every time you play the game there will always be exactly these four texts but you randomly put them in different spots so they will not always be in the same location and that is definitely important so for example let's say we put the population here and that's going to stay there for the rest of the game and now we know the narrow beam lasers technology now many of the technologies have an immediate banner and then other things in the bottom and you only do the immediate as soon as you research that tech so that means by placing this here we would immediately gain one ore and we could upgrade one of our ships over on the space board by one level after a player has moved their pawn and taken their action they can then move it to the production phase of their turn now technically at this point usually the next player can start taking their turn with an action and the previous player can produce while that other player is going now the way production works is you can either produce a population or or a resource trade when you produce ore you simply gain a number of ore equal to the number of these icons showing currently in this row at the start of the game that shows a one so you'd simply take one or but for example if these were removed then by doing an or production we get one two three and you can actually see these icons show you where the next or production icons are underneath these tokens now next up if you want to instead do population growth then this will let you turn these boxes into people now you're going to do that based off of these tokens and you're going to check these columns if there is no token underneath a column then you take one of those boxes and you turn it into a person by rotating that cube around and if you have a situation like this and you did population growth you take one from each of these columns and then of course both of those would turn into population now if you had a future situation like this where you went to do population growth but this column right here doesn't have any cubes then instead you would just take one from here because that one is empty what this means is if you somehow cleared all of these off and then it did population that would get you one two three four population which you'd place right over here the final production phase option is a resource trade and this happens pretty rarely compared to the other two uh this lets you do as many of each of these different types as often as you want so you could spend three or to turn one box into a person you could spend one ore in order to turn any of your ships on the spaceboard into a person putting them back here and you can just get rid of people from your board turning them into boxes in order to take one ore again when you do resource trade you can do as many of these as you want now i do want to mention that whenever you take boxes and turn them into people you always take the leftmost one and whenever you take a person and turn them back into a box you put them into the rightmost slot that's currently available after production the last thing players have to do is check to see if they can claim one achievement each time you play the game there will always be four achievements available and two of them are always empire and transcendence you can tell because they have this orange border the other two are randomly chosen and these are the four that we're going to be playing with later on now if you meet the criteria for any one of these achievements you then take one of these tokens and place it down onto that achievement but it's worth noting you can only complete one achievement per turn and if you are eligible to do an achievement you must you are not allowed to pass on that these are important because they will give players points based off of their position and they are also very important because this is how the game end trigger is hit now as soon as there are three of these tokens out here in a two or three player game or four of these tokens in a four player game that will trigger the end of the game we will keep playing until everyone has taken the same number of turns and then everyone will take one more turn once again the only thing that counts for that trigger is the number of these tokens out here so one player could put three down to trigger the end of the game or you might have it in a four player game each person put one of these down and that would also trigger it i would also like to mention that some of these spots are blocked at certain player counts this is going to be a three player game which is why that four player icon is blocked so only one person can achieve prosperity in this game that we are about to play so that's the overall structure of the game but of course i haven't described much of how it actually plays because when you place these action pawns down you do what it says and there's a pretty wide variety of those options now at this point let's talk about how we can research a level two technology we've so far only learned about the level ones first of all when you do this if you have to place on that spot there then you have to pay one additional ore and it's worth noting that the basic space varying area does vary with the player count this is the setup for three players so let's say we went over here we would then have to spend two or back to the supply and then place one person next to a level two technology and that is this column right here but much like the level ones you must have the prerequisites taken care of now for the twos and threes and fours those prerequisites can be a little bit more complicated if we take a look over here you can see there are three lines coming out of this text spot the top one leads over here and since there is nothing else showing that line means we have the prerequisite for whatever technology this ends up being now over here there's a straight line going to this level three technology which means this is a prerequisite for that but of course we can't research a level three technology until we have an action that lets us do that and in fact there are none of those available at the start of the game you will find those as you research more technology there are other restrictions like down here this line leads into this spot but it says both and that means you have to have both of these technologies in order to have this prerequisite be filled so we only have half of it for now and that means in this example the only level two technology we could do is this one here now whenever we do a technology the first thing we do is flip over this card because it's an event and then we do what that event says although i'm not going to flip that because i'm going to spoil what this looks like because these are the events that we had for the game after we do whatever that event says we can place a new technology over here and it must match a color of one of the prerequisites you'll notice there are colors right over here is red which is military and since this is the only prerequisite for this level 2 technology this must have a red icon on it in order to be placed for a different example if we had both of these prerequisites to do this one you'll notice that there is a red feeding into it and a green so we'd have to decide if this would be red or green before we actually start drawing cards while we're on the topic of different colors for technologies i'd now like to draw your attention to this player aid it has a technology guide you can see there are four different technology colors and this also tells you a good idea of the kind of stuff you'll find for those techs so if you're looking for military then you're probably going to find effects that build ships move ships around and give you upgrades whereas if you go for the commercial type which is yellow you're likely to find ways to do more colonization move out on the board and have various flexible actions so in this way you can try to go after a specific type of action but of course you won't know exactly what you are going to get speaking of that the way we now gain tech is we draw random cards from the top of that associated deck until we find two cards that match the prerequisite color in the left side android surveyors has green and yellow but no red so that does not count but plasma cannon definitely has red so we keep going until we find two of these cards that have the prerequisite color and then once that's done we can choose one of these two and we will then put that onto the location of the board in this example we could take the plasma cannon then what we would do is shuffle the rest of these up and then put them to the bottom of that deck the plasma cannon can be placed onto that location of course two ore must be spent in this case and then you could put a population down there and now the pink player has the plasmacan technology for the rest of the game and you'll notice this has a prerequisite lead into the level three technologies this one requires you to have this technology as well as that one because it does say both now looking forward there are level three and four technologies there aren't any events associated with the fours and you must have two out of the three prerequisites for these two and you have to have both of these in order to learn this one over here now at the end of the game we're going to get points for a variety of things and one of those is the technologies that we have the level one technologies are worth one point the level two technologies are with two the threes are worth three and lastly these fours are worth a variable amount of points which depends on the actual technology card itself these fours have very powerful effects and tell you how many points they're worth for example the neo-industrial revolution says at the game end you get one victory point for every two ore that you have up to a max of seven and that will only apply to the player who has researched that technology the next thing i'd like to talk about are these four guild tiles amongst the events that are out here face down at the start of the game there are two associated with the tier ones and two that are associated with tier two and when you flip those over you can choose one of these guilds to activate once you have activated them you remove this and that will unlock a work replacement location that all players can go to you'll notice on some of these other texts that there are work replacement locations but you can only go there if you have actually researched that technology now once this guild tile is removed all players can go there and for example this professor's guild says you can go here spend four or lose one population and put another population on a level three technology in order to research it so once again at the start of the game there is no way to research level three technologies but the professor's guild is one way to do that and you can also find other technologies that will let you research as well if we look down here in order to research the level four technologies you have to clear out the meta science guild this is one way to do that but again there are many technologies that will let you research up to level four the next thing we should talk about is that space board and there are two important things to keep in mind the first is the keyword jump and the second one is the colonization now when we do a jump action by putting our pawn over there in this example you can then move a ship once for each jump value that you have when ships travel you simply follow these lines so you can move this one over here for one jump this one could go there for one and this one could go one two and that would be an example of four jumps now after you finish all of your jumps you can take control of various systems as long as you have a majority of ship power in that area the value of the ship only matters for this you'll notice that the value two ships jump the same exact way as the level ones now let's set up a different example and if things look like this i think let's set up a different example and now let's talk about control if you have a majority of ship power then you can put one of your income tokens down onto that area if it just shows ore or the leafs then you have to put that down or if it shows one of each you can choose one or the other to place in this example we would put one leaf income token there and one ore income token there and we do this by taking the leftmost version of those tokens from our board and when you do that you're going to increase the chance that you'll be able to produce more population as well as ore later on in your charts once you place these down that will show that you control that specific area and in the future someone can take control away from you if they are able to have more ship power than you have going on so for example if the white player came in with a value four ship to here four is greater than two and they would actually kick this token out we put that into the rightmost empty spot on our board for that type and then the white player would put one of their own tokens down over here it's also worth noting if you leave an area you will still control it but then any ship value will take control of that away from you after placing a control token down if that planet had a control token bonus you immediately gain it it looks like that icon there which makes sense it's a disc with an arrow and this serious one says if you put this token down you gain one ore now if in the future somebody came in and kicked this out and they were able to place one of their own then they would also gain that so it's possible to have multiple players gain this including the same player if they take control of it back away from somebody else now in this current setup we do have another interesting control effect both ross and tauscetti say that when you do this you can move your rightmost box on your player board to the supply column a you'll notice these columns have letters so in this example you would take that box from the rightmost column and put it into a and that way it'll be much easier to gain access to this person because of course they're over here in a and not over there in e which would require all of these tokens to be removed in order to grow into that e column the next thing to talk about is colonization and you do that with this icon that shows up on the terraforming level one card and it also shows up over here in the terraforming guild that might be unlocked as the game goes on in order to do this you pay the associated costs for terraforming it says you have to spend a three ore and one person whereas the terraforming guild says you have to spend a four or and one person it definitely varies and there are many technologies that give you more ways to colonize for different costs so for example if we did this we'd spend three ore and one person back to our supply and then we could colonize one planet from the space board in order to do this you must be controlling that planet and you must have a ship value at least equal to the colonization value for example over here this one has a colonization value of three so we could colonize this because we control it and we have three ships here when we do this all other ships are going to be sent into deep space and that also includes ships that you don't need for example if we had this we could send one of these back because we only need three to colonize here and of course that one would go back to deep space and if we were in a situation where we had to overpay then you don't actually get to make any change now in this case you simply take this and put it in front of you and then all of the ships that were on it are going to turn back into boxes so you can put them into your supply after that you will then put another one of these tokens onto that colony and if there is one option then you must match that but if this is one of those that has two options you could choose either one of those either way you're going to have two of these income tokens on that colony now after that if there's an immediate effect you can do it for example this one says you can upgrade up to two of your ships by one level which means you simply increase their value colonies also give you points sometimes it's static like this is worth five points whereas other ones are conditional depending on various things that you do at this point the next thing i'd like to talk about is automation many effects in the game let you automate either one of the plant or the or income tokens and when you do this you simply take the leftmost one of that token and you put it into the rightmost empty spot on this automation track and these are usually worth points at the end of the game and more importantly you have removed them from your production area which means you are more likely to grow more population as well as make more ore when you do your production phase well at this point i've covered most of the actions that you'll see in this game and as we play through the game you're potentially going to see more options and you should hopefully be able to pick up how those work while we are actually playing now once the game is over we will do final scoring and there's a cheat sheet for that on the back of our player aid players will get points for all of these things the first ones will give you points simply for your technologies every level one tech is worth one the twos are with two and the threes are worth three and as i mentioned before the level four technologies have a variable amount of points players also have the ability to get private technologies from various effects in the game and the level two privates are always worth two and the threes are always worth three then players are going to gain points for the automation track the way this works is you simply add up the points underneath automated tokens and if you somehow made it all the way to the end and automated more you pile those tokens up here and each one of those is worth one each after that players will gain points for their colonized systems and again that is the value in the bottom of the cards that they colonized and placed in front of them next up we can score points for the space board each player will get one point for every location they control which means they have one of these discs placed down on top of it and then the player who has a majority of power at seoul gets one point and the player who has a majority in deep space gets one point and if there is a tie then it is friendly and all players get those points after that if event cards happen in the game we will get points for those and they have a pretty wide variety of effects and it's probably you'll see some of those in the play through and finally we get points for our achievement tokens placed on the achievement cards once we add all of that up the player with the most points will be the winner now that's going to bring the teaching part of this video to a close and i think it's now time to actually play the game so i'm going to reset the table back up again and then we can meet up with our friends to start playing okay it looks like we're all here and uh nick you are on my right that's right i'm the first player as the disciples of the cosmic tabernacle aka white player that's me and then anastasia you are blue that's right united nations of seoul which i think i play every single game and i i'm i'm feeling quite attached well good well good this is this is random setup but i still feel like this is my uh what are we countries nations yeah so i'm here in the middle i'm pink i'm the nishida ostergard corporation and uh before we actually jump into the game uh uh like nick said he's gonna be the starting player but i'd like to really briefly talk about the achievements that we're gonna be playing with today as always we have empire and transcendence so for empire the first person to colonize four systems gets four points and then it's less after that we're also all trying to research our first level four technology which is hard to do and we're probably gonna do it near the end and then these bottom two are random we've got prosperity which is essentially jack of all trades in a three player game only one of us can do it and that's gonna be the first person to colonize two systems automate four discs and also research two level three technologies so again just a whole bunch of stuff that we're gonna wanna do anyway lastly we have the strategist and this one is different you have to have eight ore you also have to have four different ships in play on the space board and you also have to have four colonists on your player board not doing anything so this one's all about hoarding stuff before a really big play and the only person to do that is gonna get three points so let's uh start this thing off nick you get to be the first player you get to go first cool i will choose because i have my awesome deep spaceship i will uh i mean i'll do technology yeah i don't think there's any choice except for really technology on the first turn i guess you could explore anyway i'm going to gain a rock and upgrade my ship by a level so it goes from one to two and get a rock and that's wonderful and i guess i should have actually put my guy out here first and then at the end of the round i'm going to get a thing and the thing i'm going to get is a box okay producing population growth yeah population nice there it is and yeah so you increase the value of your deep spaceship so you're the only one who got to start over there because of some small asymmetries that i didn't go into cool well i am next i think i'm going to follow suits it's pretty standard to research level 1 technologies on the first turn and i'm gonna research advanced genetics down over here so i've got to put a colonist down on top and then immediately i get to automate one plant and then i also can turn a box into a person so this plant is going to go up there which is great and then whenever you turn boxes into people you always go with the left most column so this is going to turn into a person that i can use which is nice i just meant a person to get that technology so it kind of paid for itself um that's going to finish the main action and then when i do population growth well i kind of feel like taking another person as well i do have three ore already yeah i think i'm gonna take another person all right i'm gonna go ahead and do advanced robotics for this game i'm going to automate one of my ore production this is basically the reverse of what john did yeah automate my for production robin orr and then i will also make a population and that will be my turn nice nice i'm gonna execute my first player privilege and go straight on to inventing a second-tier technology it's gonna be this one right here that's gonna cost me two rocks and i will throw this fellow out here and we will find all this good black market stuff ah i swear this one comes out every time i play the game so i get a rock for that and then we can we can lose two points to increase our production yeah so it's essentially a free action we can each do once to automate but then we lose two points for at the end of the game all right let's find level two tech that could be one of them not you what are you digging for reds i am i'm a military man these days yeah following the flow so i can be good at terraforming or better at traveling uh that's fascinating let's take the plasma cannon all right too sweet of a now bonus to pass up so this goes here i then take this drop it onto earth it's a three we'll send it out here into sirius which will put this into play i will get a rock and then i will might as well go to the black market and [Music] i will at the end of the turn take two rocks as my production cool cool so yeah once again the black market it's just a once per game thing so you've spent two points to permanently get rid of one of your war production that's right probably good at this point of the game i've usually seen this come out later but early on that's probably a good idea and now the plasma cannon in the future you can go there spend two rocks turn a person from your board into a level three ship and then jump three with it that's a powerful technology all right cool well i am next and i think i'm gonna follow the third player aka anastasia if they want to go there it's gonna cost one additional ore but it doesn't cost one for me so i'm gonna take advantage of this that's gonna cost two or and then and then this is gonna go here it has to because that's the only one that's supported if i wanna research this i'd also have to do this one because it has both so we can flip this over dimensional rift draw the top card from either system deck and then place it next to any system card slot on the exploration board this card acts like a normal system and can be colonized and it is one jump away from the attached location do not draw a new card when colonized okay that's interesting i guess i will pull a a that's landy a big number so that one can be either one of the types and it scores five points during regular production phase this turn you can do just a mega production the trend that you colonize this one okay well i think i'll just put this one over here so now effectively this is one jump away from wolf 395 and once this is colonized that won't happen again there you go all right after that i can put some technology over here it's gonna be green it's gonna be level two that's green and that is nuts wow it took a while to get the second one okay so android destroyers can spend a box to put a level three on the board ooh from your rightmost box and then i can go here spend a variable amount of ore to turn a box into a variable powership oh but x is the highest technology level you've reached currently that's going to be two for me the other one supply outpost i can upgrade one of my ships by one level and then jump it twice and then in the future i can go here to turn a box into a person upgrade a ship by one level and then jump one yeah that really is a supply outpost that lets you kind of do everything whereas this one gets better throughout the game putting more and more powerful stuff i think i'm gonna go with android destroyers so that's gonna go over here and um now i immediately make a level three ship from my right most box that's gonna be this one over here and i can only put it on earth because that's the only shipyard i currently control but i'm not complaining that feels pretty good and then when i do production at the end of my turn i think i'll just take an r cool you are up anastasia okay well i'm not at all annoyed that you left me a level two research spot that you didn't leave me um it's just one ore i yeah i'm not i'm not going to be that much of a follower i will use i will use basic space variant again yeah and i will drop this guy here in the terraforming slot and that's gonna let me uh add one of my boxes turn it into i believe it's a level one ship put that level one ship over here into deep space cool and that's that you're gonna make ore or people i'm gonna go ahead and copy nick i'm gonna throw this down over here and i'm gonna amp up my war production i threw that on the card and i will make two more cool you have me wondering like i should have done that in my turn but there's no ore underneath there and i probably wouldn't have done it for the person so it's fine i don't know nick's got i don't know what he's doing over there he's got his five ore he's only got one person what are you doing nick scary thanks i am firing the plasma cannon that makes a lot of sense two of those ore and then this guy becomes a big spaceship which goes ouch and then i have three moves and a lot of ships sure three we'll come at the special space out here and he's out one on the lawn day 21 185 and over here in the shipyard up north and then so nick has just taken over all of space oh you're doing like a third of space it's like a third of space i've got android destroyers waiting in the wings let me tell you a normal amount of space and i will produce a population for the turn cool cool cool how many times have you played this game nick a bunch at this point when they release it on bga so i just like jammed it a bunch randomly i think i've played like five six times something like that yeah i think i'm at like four or five all right so i've got two people to or it's your job to block him in space yeah i mean i got these android destroyers so i feel like just delegated it to john i probably should i mean spend two or to put a level two down and then jump three it doesn't seem bad i'll just let you guys fight over there go for it have fun all right i'm gonna go for it i'm pink all right android destroyer time all right so two ore and then this box will turn into a level two ship and that'll go onto earth and i have a jump three three ships on earth so we're going places i'd love to get this bonus or but nick annoyingly left is three there and i feel like i have to really over commit to that huh that's interesting both of the b planets have the same place effect if you put a token down you may move your rightmost box to supply column a which is nice just kind of funny they're both the same so i have three ships and i'd love to move all three of them but i also kind of want to get to a shipyard so i have to keep starting over here at seoul so i think that'll probably be one move that'll be two [Music] and then i'll head over there for three so this one ship's gonna hang out there for a little while longer and then i can put a or and then an ore or a plant really should call them space rocks because ore or a plant just sounds kind of strange to say space rocks so this one's definitely going down and if i put another space rock one down i could get another one so i think that's what's the plan this will go here that will go there and uh i'm just i'm just kind of co-living with nick over here in space we're just doing our own things cohabitating over there friends forever ignoring anastasia's desires yeah pretty much uh and then i'll produce i didn't know i didn't say that you needed to have conflict i just said that uh i'm gonna let you guys live in space it's a pretty good place to be all right i produced two ore uh i could black market but that does not make sense so i will save my two points all right i'm done all right well like you said i'm gonna let you guys live together peacefully over there in in space just wait just wait it's not gonna be peaceful for long um and i am now that you've all cleared it out i'm going to research a level two technology i'm gonna come up here so i'm gonna go ahead and research scientific and let's flip this over and see what we've got tuck this card under level two slots the one you're researching from now on researching that level two costs one additional four wow wow that's great i'm gonna drop this down here for the two of you enjoy that's uh that does make a lot of sense i think i've seen that one before that's interesting so i'm going to do scientific research some science texts and hunting hunting for science science there's one i'll move it up here uh hunting for some more science there's two all right so my choices are so we can automate people and then to or lose a population oh research level three texts nice easier that's interesting that's actually pretty cool because you actually at this point in time we cannot research level three text until someone opens up correct you'd be the only ones and stuff so far this has very little value but it will let me repeat the immediate bonus of any level 2 tech and then automate two and game two well you you do one or the other so oh right excuse me automate two in game two excuse me hmm see what your bonuses were yeah i do not want to go into space with y'all so that's not gonna happen you know i feel like john always plays a research game and i'm gonna play a research game so i think i'll i think i'll stick with that uh all right so i get to automate one plant i'll pop that up there technically i actually needed to put a person up there when i did that which i did not do and spend two war right and spend two or all right i believe that i'm going to take oregon cool good super hi anastasia i think that you are just really talented and smart and i would like to thanks nick follow in your no no no you do not need to join me no no no take your compliments and go back down go down to john's automated like whatever compliment you if you don't have anything to be complimented on so i figured i think this is really the most appropriate um course of action and uh i'm going to go ahead and [Music] get some population nice i mean i'm assuming you're doing that because you want to colonize because you have a ton of ships over there i mean that's a possibility always but yeah you know you know you know because right now yeah that's that's the only way to colonize currently on the board okay cool well now it's my turn and i can't do android destroyers again i can't do another level two tech either i don't qualify for any and anastasia made this one more expensive even if i could qualify for it sorry not sorry what a pain i i mean colonizing would be nice feels kind of kind of silly to pile on you know i think i'm going to do a level one research and i'm gonna go for advanced robotics so that i can maybe back up on to psyonix research and all these things guys research my own level threes i did all of this hard work for myself not for you so that's gonna take just one person well you stalled out getting the level twos and then kind of built a better level one infrastructure so now we all have to copy right clearly not copy we're following in your prestigious footsteps all right i'm going to automate one space rock and then get a space rock now here's the question now i can black market and get three ore but it might make more sense to black market over here tough i think i will well think about that black market is the longer i wait to use it the worse it's going to get that is a tricky part of this what do i even need rocks for i guess i need rocks for my ando just android destroyers and i don't need people for my android destroyers now let's do it let's make some mistakes i'm gonna go to the black market and then i will simply produce three ore so i've got tons of war and i'm good all right well i'm gonna try and get some scientific uh get some more research done here before you guys take away my gains uh so i'm tempted to block nick into this one but i think that unfortunately i don't really want any commercial card so i think i'm gonna go ahead and research here so i can try and get some more science so i'm gonna do scientific again but let's see what we've got here all right tyler lee entrepreneur prodigy well that's who i am you gain one space rock remember we used to call it space coal i'm gonna call it space coal i kind of like space coal i'm gonna get one space goal what types of deer your your euro roots yeah then choose to remove a tier one guild cover tile below basic space frame box each faction canal i think i'm gonna do the terraforming guild i kind of want i kind of want level three text to be all mine of course you're gonna come in and make that more difficult but that's what i think i'm gonna do yeah all right so i'm gonna get rid of that all right let's search for some science again you're doing blue okay yeah doing blue oh that's very blue that is very blue all right pulling that out super blue pulling that out all right let's see what our choices are here so human experiments human experiments upgrade two ships by one level and then i can use people to research level three or to make ships that's interesting flexible particularly good people game going right now though so hyper computing automate another coal now now i've just completely confused everything oracle space rocks uh so i can automate another ore and then for or would also let me research level three interesting it's not too surprising you're seeing all these level threes because you're going after the the blue which is you know yeah a big part of it no that makes a lot of sense this one's interesting because i can use more i can't i only need one person to be able to do this one as opposed to the one above it which requires me to have two people less less or yeah all right so i'm gonna go ahead and drop this up here i will i've i decided to pick the research one yeah uh i'm really staying out of space at the moment for no apparent reason so i automated my one ore and i dropped my person up there and for production i'm gonna pay my two ore did not pay my cost sorry doing this out of order my two people my two or and for production [Music] i'm gonna make one person i was kind of hoping i would get to automate another human but i did not get to so that's that's that all right um i am going to take that space that anastasia very kindly left for me i guess yeah um so i'm gonna research level two that's right here i gain a person um and then choose and remove the level one okay great so this and this choice that anastasia made is no longer relevant exactly so now we all can very expensively get level threes right and i'm looking for a yellow there's a yellow how about those all right this is multi-colony symposium which uh lets me do level three texts but makes me skip production unless i've colonized twice it's a hybrid strategy and then supply outpost we saw a little breathing uh oh yeah it's the same one as you guys already jumped around plenty yeah all right i've already jumped around plenty i'm definitely taking a multi-colony symposium here um that goes there that's basically that i have plenty of peeps so i'm going to take rocks and i'm done cool i have to admit this is interesting having all having three out of the four level two technologies be about researching level three technologies like i said twos that's unusual like i played this a bunch and that's that's a very tech heavy situation which is probably good for anastasia considering that's what you're doing i don't know all i know is what i'm doing is maybe android destroyers because i could go over here actually i can't even research any level two technologies right now i can't do this one because i need both oh i could research cyanx research i suppose that would automate a plan once that's not terrible but would cost me two or plus another one or i could just make another ship and then jump stay in space the thing about android destroyers is i kind of want to have at least a level three technology to leverage it better like i feel like leveraging it into level twos is not nowhere near as good as level threes i don't love my situation that i put out here i mean i don't think it's terrible but as far as research is concerned like i can't get to this one until i've done this one and i can't do that one until i've done this one and this one has a pesky extra cost on it so it doesn't feel it feels bad but it also feels like i should probably leverage it a bit but if i chase you here you're just gonna do that level three before i even get there but that's fine i could just follow in your footsteps i suppose or i could just take their awfully large footsteps yeah man i do a five ore i could easily spend three of those i suppose yeah i think i'm gonna do it i've talked myself into it i'm gonna spend an extra aura as a penalty and then i'm gonna go for psyonix research a big reason is because it lets me automate a leaf and when i do that that makes my growing population significantly better i think that was probably worth it so i have to spend one ore for the penalty plus two more for the actual action and this person's gonna head over there and then that's essentially everything but i've set myself up to potentially do this although anastasia's probably gonna do it on her next turn to block me but either way it's two points whatever so i should probably grow population now so i'll take from that column and this one okay we're actually in luck john because i can't oh as much as i'd like to i do not have two people so i did not factor that but that works out yeah no i know i thought about telling you but then i decided not to i don't blame you at all uh so i'm actually debating right now if i should throw my ring into space a little bit to potentially widen up my population yeah or if i should research a level three it doesn't really matter neither one of you is coming for this one which so i've kind of got a lock on that you know i don't see that happening nick has obviously set himself up for this one i see because you can do this one because it just takes you four or in one person and you have exactly that i get it i get it i can do that and so i can actually do that right now uh but i might wait think of the awesome stuff that could be behind the door what's behind the door i know so much awesome stuff but let's see what i can do over here let me think for a second see one two three if i had four jumps i could get two plants down and move two of my boxes from my rightmost comp to my left and get me a pretty good number of population not not as many as i'd like but so maybe maybe i'll do that like a little refresh i'm gonna pause my research game for a moment so i'm gonna go ahead and just come in here on the jump four and then coming over the space board here i'm going to move one to go here and then one two three to go here so oh sorry one two three so four total and then i'm going to drop two plants down actually let's see attempting to drop an ore let's see john's going to research next turn so he's not going to take it away nick is probably gearing up for a colonization so he's probably not going to move to take it away either so maybe i'll drop this other ore down i get the benefit so i've taken both of these over of moving uh two both of my supply boxes in my right most column e into a so i'm going to basically refill my a column with e that's awesome and that's that all right and now i will produce by taking to population and i hopefully set myself up for a fairly decent production for at least one more turn yeah yeah okay uh well you figured me out i am terraforming fantastic i'm so happy for you i'm so happy for your people goes there and we will eat sirius which will upgrade two of our ships we will do the ones in deep space and the one up there and the north north as far as north can be in space um and then i'll unlock this take this puppy which comes over here and i get to put an extra token on it i can stay there and then i will produce and i will produce two rocks and that's it awesome so that's gonna be worth five points two at the end of the game and yeah when you colonize you get to take one more of a matching token so that worked out pretty well well i can use this so i think i probably should i've got the two people i've got two ore and this literally takes two ore and two people so we are going to do some psionics research i'm getting in there first this person will go there which is the thing that i'm researching this person gets turned into a box and they go all the way to the rightmost one and then the two are and let's see what the event is cc24x first android governor remove a tier 2 guild tile from the basic space throwing box each faction has access to it and this is worth one point to make the end of the game so not super exciting right now but getting a point is nice and i can just put that underneath my board so the guild tiles um technocrats guild would let you research one of the basics and then do another basic action so a level one and a basic and the meta science guild would let me research a level four but it is super expensive i think it's gonna be a long time until i even have a chance of researching a level four and i actually would not mind getting some more of these level one technologies to fill in considering i'm kind of pegged on these sides so it's gonna be the technocrats guild after that looks like there's gonna be another blue happening blue is definitely leading to more blues in this game all right cool we got two here i've mined computing i could automate a space rock and jump one and then spend seven or in a person to research a four which again i'm not sure i'm gonna be researching them for for a while planetary scale research i could turn i could get a ship and jump to right now and then spend four or in a person where x is the number of your colonized systems plus one so this is a technology research but it's based off of the colonized systems so if i call knight's one system then x would be one plus one so i could research a level two so i guess this one is weak now because i've obviously colonized nothing but it's amazing later if i colonize a bunch but also it just makes a level two ship and jumps two which is potentially a reason to take this when i look over here at the space board moving two would actually be pretty good i think i'm gonna take that technology just for the immediate benefit and maybe i'll colonize a bunch and get and be happy about it later in the game we'll just have to see so planetary research is happening and then a box will turn into a two and then i jump twice that's going to be this box and i have a shipyard here so that's pretty good with jump two i'll head up here for one and this will go over there for the other so that will put a leaf down and then i can turn a box into a person and this will do a leaf or a space rock because i'm taking that away from anastasia because i have a higher value and then i can move one over so yeah that's pretty good turn i think i do have to put these tokens down first though so i think i'll do a leaf well one of them is a leaf and the other one i will choose a leaf and now i can take both of these benefits just kicking me out of space john i'm kicking you out of space get out uh and now i'm gonna make oh man that's interesting i was gonna i was gonna say i'm gonna make people but i should probably make ore because you kind of need both things for researching in general i can also technocrats guild yeah i think i need the ore i think i need the ore i'm going to take three ore for my production and that's going to finish my turn sorry for that long turn there was a lot of steps to that one not so good all right i i'm gonna go all right well john i could be more mad that you um messed up my production plans but you actually actually knocked off the one i wanted you to knock off which is great so you're welcome um and funnily enough i might not even produce people after all of that but let's go ahead alright so i'm gonna see this through i'm gonna go ahead and do a level three research so i'm gonna use the one that takes four or so i'll use all my ore and just the one person that's gonna come up here and let's see what i got if this is the last round discard this event point this card in any shipyard system including seoul each faction may once this game upgrade one ship there to a level four ship during their turn for free uh at the game and this location is worth an additional one holy cow any shipyard system okay so i'm going to place this over here on the shipyard system these have names no this is just the the green ship system the green shipyard system the leaf shipyard system all right i'm gonna go ahead and search for blues again so we got a blue not a blue and there we go two science so whatever choices here okay the first one lets me automate a food and turn one of my boxes into people that in itself is exciting the other one let's be automated or in game two or okay so let's see i'm at a human chamber so i was focused on the immediate actions what else can i do i can take four or get rid of three people and research a level four tech ooh that is enticing that's very enticing okay yeah or you can copy any research type action even if you do not have the technology that's not too great for you considering you already have most of the research technologies i think you know seriously i do and so i don't really need it and it's gonna be pretty hard for it's gonna take a lot of work for both of you to get to this level four so i think i'm going to take this plus all i really wanted was to automate a food because as soon as one of you takes over that other system my food's gone so i'm gonna go ahead and do that and you're gonna need a lot of food to to make meta humans to shove into the chambers to get your level forward uh yeah so i'm gonna turn this box into a human with my other power and i'm actually twist going to produce four so it's unfortunate to not have all of that or but i'm gonna need a little bit of ore so i will take two more i've definitely found in this game that you kind of never want to start your turn with none of one type unless you're just gonna do a level one research with a person um especially starting your turn with zero people can lead to some pretty lead to a pretty unhappy turn like having both is at least one of both is is generally sought after agreed my turn yeah great um we are going to use this good old plasma cannon again it's going to cost me two rocks one of these guys is going to be like wow i'm an amazing space fighter guy and then i shall drive these wonderful boats uh one two three freaking bully [Laughter] i mean if you're gonna leave yourself undefended can we just can we just go back to the point where i whispered into the microphone it's not going to be friendly for long i just want to call back to that when i told everyone friendly for now yeah yeah i mean you know they were there right like i was supposed to yeah i'm actually i wasn't thinking about that and i did not do a massive three population growth on my turn and took the ore instead and now i'm regretting it because these are back and that was like my opportunity too but hey it is what it is it is what it is um and then i'm producing which means i need rocks one two three rocks oh but i do get to do this these bonuses which is make a f uh person that's the first bonus one yeah and then i get to pump these two e's over to a's yep which is pretty wonderful yeah that is really strong doing both of those yeah yes takes over space john what did i tell you about blocking him well i got greedy i wanted to make my android destroyers more effective yeah and there's this pink space over here you know it's not all controlled by the cosmic tabernacle which it should be i mean like for cosmic yeah all right well speaking of android destroyers it's time for android destroyers let's do it so i'm gonna spend three ore now because it says x is your highest technology level reached and i've now reached level three so now i could really start to pump this up so that's three or to make a level three ship from a box i have three ore so this is going to turn into a three and i still have the shipyard so that's going to go there after that i get to jump three and then i should probably really start thinking about colonizing after that but either way i can jump through right now well i think the first jump is going to go here and this is the galactic hq according to anastasia so it says once per game i can upgrade a one to a four and then put a star token on there so we're doing it this one turns into a four i'll put that there to mark that i cannot do that again so i have two more moves i have two more moves and i can't move this again if i want to keep it upgraded and i do want to keep it upgraded so i'm thinking i could fly through here for one and then over here for two and snipe the shipyard i could also just go here for one with either of these and then snipe that in fact if i came here with the three i could potentially colonize the three and not lose the two it would go back to deep space i would get to move a box which is good yeah i think this is probably what i'm gonna do and then this ship right here is probably just gonna stay here i guess maybe no i can't go to deep space there's no connection right there huh i mean you're basically you could defend yeah if you wanted yeah but if i leave this then someone could easily take that i mean nick still could with this but um yeah i'm not gonna think too far in the future i've already thought about this too much i'll do this move here i'll do this move here okay so that's going to be the only benefit i get right now is i can move rightmost box to the left which is honestly pretty great for my situation and then i do get to put a token down i think i'll go with a plant and that's gonna kick nick out see look i'm fighting back it's actually been kind of cool having these two the fact that we've been able to all kind of use it to refresh our ease into our a's yeah unusual actually quite surprising yeah yeah i mean every time we play this game the variety of events and texts and even yeah these bonuses on the planets definitely alter the overall game flow okay so that was android destroyers um i've done my jump three now it's time to produce i once again feel like i should make ore and i'm going to even though i just complained about oh i should have made grown people last time still going to make the ore and then i'll uh complain about it in the future i'm sure that's me done all right thank you for clearing that off i'm going to pop up here and this is actually why i produced ore last time is because i have just enough ore and just enough people i like i just tried to drop my person into my ore bag okay um get out of this enough ore and just enough people the the uh eaten person goes into e correct yeah the right most empty spot all right there we go right most empty spot and it'll pop up here and i will join john at the planetary scale research where i will take a box make a level 2 ship which where's that level 2 ship go is it going to seoul it goes wherever you have a shipyard so for you it's seoul that makes sense yep so i make a level 2 ship and then i get to jump to let me overthink this as much as john just over thought his turn which by the magic of editing will seem like two seconds yep they do now they do now where on earth should i move well the sad part is that it doesn't really matter where i go with these because y'all have kind of taken over here well keep in mind to the galactic hq that you've founded on green shipyard system et dubs john you should have uh had a plant down here oh you're right holy cow so you could have gotten that crazy person i honestly still probably would have made ore once again making my complaining about not making people in the previous turn even more silly so there it is oh i forgot about this ship okay so while i was telling you to do that all right so i'm gonna pop down here yes i will get my four but i'm also gonna pop down here yeah when i told you to leave this undefended so that i could take it over so i'm gonna just give you that back so kindly and this is great i'm going to uh fatten up my ore production nice honestly kind of assumed that you or nick well honestly i assumed nick would probably swing in like he's not gonna stick around here where i have five power so i figured he would probably sweep in and punt out my level two anyway which is why i figured you know it was two doesn't seem weak but it felt like it was almost as good as not being there so which is why i move that down that's my that's my reasoning anyway either way um you're welcome for the blue ship for the the brown shipyard i love it thank you uh so i guess hmm well i was going to produce people but now i think i'm going to produce ore because i don't know how long that's going to live out there so let's go ahead and produce three ore that would be that very weird feeling that i somehow cheated early game on ore not really looking forward to that asterisk let's hope i didn't um great and we'll head over to terraforming here yeah i'm gonna pay three rocks and one of these guys oh he comes over to e um and i'm gonna terraform the tea garden because it's just so wonderful sounding and actually also because it gets me a second plant thing yeah that goes over there we'll make these boxes again and then for my god you get an ongoing effect now too yeah research is discounted for a buck basically it's facebook nice yeah and then i will produce peeps because i make three of them and i like that well colonizing is good you got 10 points in colonizing over there the new planet groom bridge pay 2 or to turn a person into a level 2 ship well it's the 34th groom bridge oh yes my bad my bad all right it's my turn um part of me feels like going to the technocrats guild to take one of those level ones uh technologies oh wait that's not really going to be good though i only have one person i really got to get some terraforming going but the problem is that the only terraforming i have available to me costs four ore so i'm just one shy what a pain well i think i am going to go to the technocrats guild then so we'll go here and then i can research a basic space fairing without moving my pawn so i'm going to put this person onto either narrow beam lasers or terraforming oh man i want to go to narrow beam lasers to unlock this spot but i also like the idea of a cheaper terraforming and i know nick's going to move off of that next turn is anastasia going to terraform no okay cool so yeah i think i'm going to go for the terraforming i don't think i can afford to skip out on that that's going to turn a box into a ship in deep space that's cool actually it's not that great i was kind of hoping to turn this into a person but it is what it is and now i can take another basic space faring action so obviously i can't do a level one or two technology because i don't have any people i could jump two which feels kind of lame or i could just turn a box into a person and gain an ore so all in all this is a pretty weak turn but jumping 2 would let me move my power 4 ship i do have some pretty strong ships out here actually i think i'm going to do that there's an optional thing to turn a person into a ship but i don't have any people so i'm just going to do a jump jump 2. okay let's see oh this one needs a for colonization but i really need to move boxes over yeah so i think this is going to go up here for one kicking nick out i've got one more move i can also just move up here and take that away from nick oh yeah i'm gonna lose this if i leave there that is true do i immediately gain it yeah i'm pretty sure yeah yeah i believe you do and i'm gonna do that so this is gone technically i have one more move i'm just trying to figure out if i move this one up or if i move this one over to here and i guess i may as well i guess the question really is do i want an or or not because i'm going to be able to put one of anything down so what do i want my second thing to be this is technically coming back so if i'm putting two things down i guess i'll just go one and one yeah i'm gonna go one on one so with that in mind i'm gonna send this to over here i'm not gonna make use of this because i don't have the people for it up here i can move a box over so that will go there and i have to put both of these down and now i'm gonna make people three of them cool i'm done okay well i have one and only one goal this turn which is to figure out jump for how to get as many plants down on the board as possible so i can make a whole bunch of people it's gonna be my only goal so first thing i'm going to do unless i change my mind because it's bad uh but to start is i'm going to move over here i'm going to take this jump four that is my only space action uh oh i've got good news for you you get to put one down all wet already you just made it so easy for me i didn't even have to take my turn yeah okay great so that's fantastic so now i just need to get one down but wouldn't it be great if we get a couple more down it would be great wouldn't it all right so well i can get an ore down that's easy enough if i want to do that i can come up here and take this one away so now that's gonna take me two no matter how i get there hmm one two getting here to take this away from nick is not easy taking this away is also not easy i don't have a lot of ships here for this for this sojourn i'm trying to to embark on i mean realistically you just have two ships right so the max number of tokens you can take is gonna be two no i have three oh disregard i i didn't look at seoul i have three having said that that doesn't get me very far it's not like you know well i think what i'm gonna do not gonna overthink it i'm gonna move two up here to take this away from nick i will move one to come down here and take this from john yep i wolf star and [Music] one food up here and one or here and then do i want to turn my purses into low i think i need to so i have no other way to make ships then i imagine i can place this anywhere i want so you just did this you spent two ore to turn a person i did sorry i spent two or to turn a person into a level two nice uh but i can place it anywhere i have a shipyard correct yep and you have lots of them you have everything all of them uh let's see john and i have both done this already the only person who can do it is nick which he's likely to do yeah and you should put a star token over here to remind you that you've done it i should okay so the question is and this comes back to you john i attempted to leave a level two here but nick's just gonna come down and immediately take that away so i guess i will go ahead and defend this side for now all right and with that i'm gonna go ahead and make three people before i lose my ability to all right um cool i'm doing a multi-colony symposium you're both it invited me one rock because i got rock discounts for researching amazing um and i will get produced because i do have systems you have the two colony systems yeah yeah i'll research this guy over here um you may check this card under an undiscovered uh technology except this one obviously and it will give you a rock and a victory point if you research it well why don't we just stick that right here feels like a good plan um and then let's go finding a level three military military these two on the bottom all right it's time to go fishing miss miss miss miss there we go androids and a capital ship all right so i can either get a gigantic ship that jumps one space yeah or i can turn boxes into things and jump around well either way big ships are are happening these have actions that make fours i think the capital ship is gonna win out here yeah let's show please all right you go here and then i will put a monster ship into play from here that's the only place i can go jumping one space over here yeah i should not have moved this oops should not have moved this from over there this too i should just left it there just kept moving around what a mistake and then the question is do i want to make rocks for people this turn i think the answer is i want to make rocks this turn since i'm making rocks i'm gonna make one two three rocks and i'm all set god john you have to put one person down where well the technology you just oh on the actual tech i was just like i was like how do you have four people still okay well you have three but still that was that was very good okay i need to colonize i need to terraform for am pink so we're gonna go terraforming three or plus a person and i have that let's see i cannot colonize so i can't tear from here anymore because i don't control it but i could do either of these this one says from now on you may pay an extra or to take an action that is occupied that's potentially really nice and this one is worth a number of points equal to your colonized systems plus three so a minimum of four just for taking it i think i like the idea of this flexible action i'm gonna colonize here so that's gonna take this four this is gonna get bumped off into deep space i can put these down here the four turns into a box and then i can put another leaf or an ore down i probably need more ore so i'll do the or yeah and now i can pay an extra ore to go on occupied locations i'm not sure if i'm ever going to do it but it feels pretty good and it's worth six points so now i can produce and i should probably take ore even though it's just two okay what's the new planet wise big number abnormal planetary signatures oh when you do this you can draw the top card from the level three deck and keep it as a private technology that only you have that is cool it's only worth two points but the three technologies worth three so it's effectively worth five plus you know surprise technology that only you can use that's fine all right anastasia okay wow i guess that's what i'll do i just want to make sure i understand the uh technocrats sealed so i can go to the technocrats guild research any level one tech yeah and then do any of the four basic space fairing options so you could research two level one that's one option i can research two level one texas or a one two or so when i used it i did a level one tech and i did a jump too or i can do it to gain a person and an or yeah interesting okay uh that's what i'm gonna do we have a little uh technograd skill time a little yeah we're gonna just do a little uh housekeeping turn here so we're gonna do the technocrats guild i'm gonna throw this person over here that's gonna let me automate one of these welcome to advanced genetics i can turn one box i assume it's from my leftmost yeah right my leftmost okay so i'm gonna do that you get a person and then i was going to move two but i want to be honest with you there's no way for me to put down another or which is really what i wanted to do i can come claim this which should give me another thing so i can easily get so basically i can get three people or i can get one person and an or three people during production i get one person an ore and then more so i'm gonna go ahead and i'm gonna go ahead and do this none of that made sense but the math makes sense if you're in my head so i'm gonna turn one box into a person i'm gonna get an extra ore and then i'm gonna go ahead and produce three or one two three just ignore my messy storehouse here we're gonna gonna clean this right up that's not cleaner okay all right nick yeah um i'd wanted to go the technocrats guild unfortunately that is hilarious are you kidding me i was like this is my throwaway turn good luck no i had like a whole plan for it and technocrats guild is nice like building up from the you know the shoring up on a level one that you maybe were lacking and then jumping into something else it's it's a not a bad turn yeah yeah and then hilariously my backup was to terraform which you took john that's so funny that hilariously was also my backup but john took it so i'm glad we're our plans are aligned i can crap terraform or i can send out a capital ship to ruin people's lives i guess i mean okay sounds like sounds like a lot of fun you said you said lives plural i i hope you just meant life one and it starts with john [Laughter] i mean every time level four ships suddenly appear on the space board it's bad news for everybody else yeah yeah i feel like i'm not that excited about moving i kind of want bell to like colonize your stuff so it's just free stuff to claim yeah it's pretty blooded over here i'm definitely in a position where i'd like to do some more colonizing i just need to i just don't have the resources to keep doing it turn after turn all right i'm going to do this cruddy terraforming action just four of these lose one of these and i'll claim this hey the land is going away take that over there take this off and that allows me to do all three productions so i'm going to make these peeps and three rocks and i can do switcheroos but i'm not going to do any switches yeah just once but still that's a powerful reload for sure yeah yeah it feels okay all right that's that's my turn all right well i've got two or two people and i'd love to terraform but i cannot afford it for sure i kind of like to go to the tech democrats guild to go narrow beam blazers but that's not happening two war in a person doesn't mean i could get a level two technology i suppose so i have two options and one thing is i could do the technocrats guild because i have this ross 154 where i could pay an ore to do that but i kind of need ore right now that would let me gain narrow beam lasers which would give me an ore and put a ship down so we'd kind of level out and then i could gain one ore from here or i could do something more fun than that and i think i'm gonna do something that's more fun in particular i'm gonna jump four over here at terraforming and now with four moves i'm gonna go one two three four so i can put a plant down here and i have five power so i can potentially colonize this next turn and get a private technology which sounds like fun it could also be terrible but i love private technologies i'm a sucker for that stuff so i'm going to put a plant down over there and importantly i didn't spend any resources this turn that was like a key factor because i want to terraform because now i'm going to yeah i'm just going gonna take two ore i wish i could have put that down onto that planet but that wasn't an option all right let's be done i'm in a bit of a quandary at the moment because i finally have enough stuff to use my meta human chambers to research a level four tech which required me to have three people and four orb however i really want to colonize and wait let's see well i still have enough people left after i do that okay so i need three people i thought i wouldn't but maybe i will let's see i need how many oh my god i will to use my metahuman chambers i need three people and four ore which i actually have and to colonize i only need one person and three or so uh yeah all right here i was lamenting that i have to pick one but i don't so i'm gonna do this uh i'm gonna put john's token back i'm gonna get my own token i'm gonna put it on the spot that he left thank you john yeah that's careful interesting that we have we have like so few terraforming spots this game i feel like it's really tight fighting over usually there's at least one over here at this point but it's a very light terraforming game which is why it's surprising nick is three of them done already but he started yeah he started doing it early he did start doing it early all right so i'm gonna go ahead and do that before one of you snipes this away from me so i'm gonna grab the one planet that i've managed to hold on to i'm gonna pay my three space goal and my one person is going to come back over here and this is actually kind of good because uh this will come back on here and i'll get to double up my ore production [Music] and then i'll get to jump three and i cannot enter the newly drawn system so see what we've got here it's pretty straightforward for a system there just to automate once yeah that's cool let's see can it take over anything i can't take over anything you guys have really locked it in tight here yeah oh actually i could take over wolf three five nine oh i'm gonna do that one two three i endorse this sorry nick all right i'm taking that over to put my two on here and yeah let's automate people because we need auto i say automate let's drop a plan on there and then the question is do i want to take just tons of ore or do i want to take two people sort of sad number of people there i feel like i'm gonna lose this opportunity so i'm gonna go ahead and just take the two people and actually do i have any ore out there on the board just the one ah all right i'm gonna take the people all right nick okey dokey um that one big capital ship can't even hold a planet by itself just fisk all right i'm going to do the technocrat skills um one person is going to learn about this weird robot thing that you guys have going on yeah everybody's doing it um i will get an ore but i'm going to immediately spend that or because the action i'm going to take is uh the level 2 thing yeah do so i'm going to take a level 2 tech i think i'm going to learn hyper computing why not and then i'm going to get a reward and that reward is gonna be people okay and that's my turn awesome i am going to terraform again technically i could bump or i could not bump i could hang out here at the same time due to that one chip thing i already colonized but it's effectively the same thing as going to this terraforming guild so i'm just going to go there so that's going to be but it's not it cost you three ore right right but in order to do my bump action it costs me an extra ore so it's gonna be four or five i think you should bump me i think you should bump me i think it's for it it's not a bump it's more of a we hang out and high five about how cool we're being while we terraform wouldn't that be so much more fun because you leave the terraforming guild open for someone else [Laughter] i see what you're saying so this person goes over here [Music] and then we're going to do wise just because it seems fun i'm going to lose a whole bunch of power but that's fine and then i draw the top three and take it as a private tech so what's going to be in the box it's a manufacturing orbitals that sounds cool execute the following in order gain an ore for every location you control oh that would have been a lot better a little bit ago then i can take a box and turn it to a person for every two colonized systems i have and then i can turn a person into a level two ship and then jump two and in the future i can do that again well i currently control just one system unfortunately so i get one or i've got two colonized uh systems over here so i'm gonna turn a box into a person this is really not all that bad and then i can turn a person into a level two ship and jump two yeah overall i think that's just fine this will have to go i guess onto seoul though i had so much stuff out here that i just colonized it all away uh i can jump two though i think i'll just go one two take over this shipyard from anastasia all right that lets me put this over there and actually hmm just kidding anastasia you can stay there i'm gonna fly to the other shipyard and kick out your no no no no i think you took your hand off your piece i never played like that but did did you see that nick did he see him take his hand off his piece i saw it kevin given how much you encouraged him to bully me earlier i think that you have basically taught him to do this so you know he he not only not only does he take the spot i want to take and and he does it without even realizing that he's doing it which makes it even more infuriating he's like they're equal they don't even matter it's like if he had just acknowledged that he was going to block me that would have been better than him not realizing it and blocking me anyways and now he's going to take over my ore production so what you're saying is that if you had not taken over myspace and left your ships where they were you'd still have it it wouldn't be a problem is that what you're saying this is this is not about you and me nick this is about john so here let me just let me just return this piece to your board covers up that rock the only reason i did that is because i realized i needed ore and that got me an extra ore it had nothing to do with you mm-hmm firmly i was like i was like why is he going there okay he's going there okay he's committed maybe he won't realize that really it seems like he needs orange all right all right all right so we've sorted that out it's been sorted all right here we go uh just just just to be clear i really do never play like the take your hand off i don't want anyone to be confused about that i'm a retcon fan princess yeah all right um having said that in that exact moment i was willing to switch sides all right so i cannot oh i really would have loved to colonize another planet for numerous reasons uh but i alas i cannot so i'm gonna leave that wide open for nick even though i think i've blocked him from colonizing so sorry and i'm gonna jump up here finally after all of that time it's been been a long time i got a little distracted from my aims of of just researching science till the end i'm going to research a level 4 tech so awesome that's going to take three people so put this one back this one back return them to there primordial state there and it's gonna pop up here cost me four or man it took a while to build that up and i do have to say love that i had to go into space to build up all that production to get back to your science roots yeah back to my science roots all right so it's gonna be blue or blue so blue blue or blue a lot of choices there blue and not blue blue okay so what are we dealing with here first up giga corporations from now on you may replace stardust on your achievements with plant or orders at any time a game and get victory points equal to the average level of your plant and or tracks marked one two nine rounded down oh my god i don't quite so effectively effectively that's these numbers down here um it it's you just use that to kind of find the average yeah i think your average right now is six points i believe in your current situation and if you put this one out then it'd be seven and you may replace stardust on your achievements what are my achievements so achievements are back over here no one's actually done any of them just yet normally you have to put a star on them but that says you can actually swap out your plants and your ore with the stars essentially lets you dig deeper and get better production for the achievements that you have done and will do in the future got it right well i actually just got one by researching level four tech that's true so if you do that tech you could put down an ore or a plant instead of putting a star down got it okay and this one is the neo-industrial revolution turn two boxes into two level three ships then jump to perform an extra production phase this turn a game end you get one for every two or you have oh well that is appetizing both advertising is interesting less point probably more guarantee points going with the first one yeah but i think i'm gonna go with this one because that would really rev up my game a little bit right now so i get to turn let's see so i'm going to get two level three ships yep from boxing boxes all right two level three ships which uh let's see where we're gonna plant them two level three ships and then i'll get to jump to interesting all right i'm gonna put them both out here and then we'll go here and here because why not and what should we put down one of them is a plant without an option one of them has to be a plant and one of them isn't either ore all right so one of them is a plant for sure plant and we're taking eight and that is my turn for your double production nice yep um okay i am going to multi-colony symposium because i have many colonies they like having symposiums so i shall pay my one or thanks to my discount i'm going to research this one that i'm going to get a disc or a rebate on i guess um yeah this is the last round discard this it's not name a tech and a color reveal four place it above the box check the card anybody can research this with a research for technology without prerequisites but it doesn't count for an achievement oh speaking of anastasia i don't think you claimed your achievement i did not and i wasn't gonna interrupt you but i did not so i have claimed my achievement right and remember the game and trigger is three achievements from any player so that's one of the three yep great um anyway so it wouldn't count as an achievement not the amount of anastasia and you would place the thing normally so it's going to go somewhere over here and i'm going to name a color uh i don't want it to be green because the two of you are like automation machines so you're better at green than i am you have both so many ships in play is that the thing to do it could be it could be the ship thing um yeah let's make it red let's find a red one all right so if you research it and upgrade a bunch of ships and if you have a bunch of collected military power that backfired okay um and we can all research this with a level four ability but it doesn't count for an achievement correct yeah um i'm gonna get a rock for researching that as my rebate and then i guess what i'm gonna do is search for blue or red a blue that's a blue i can jump around and research i guess or do a level four okay i can't do a level four yet so that's a no-brainer for me do the automate in the jump yep so i'll take this that goes here i get an automate for this and put a person next to that technology too yes thank you i don't like claiming my technology so just like inventing them um and we will repay anastasia's kindness by bouncing her thing here that makes a lot of sense and i will make rocks one two three four all set cool all right i get to go and i think i'm going to keep on colonizing colonizing is pretty darn good so i'm going to start by heading over here to terraforming that's going to take three space rocks and a person which i can afford and it looks like i'm just going to be essentially completely leaving the space board although that's not true this has a colonization value of three so this will do it which means this will get punted into deep space along with that and then i can add this over here so there's no immediate effects but this is worth three plus one for the colonize so that's six points to me right now i can pull something else on top of this i appear to have used all of my people which is a concern yeah so i think i'll put this here and then i'll finish my turn by bringing in three people okay anastasia all right well i have eight ore and four ships and two people so i'm almost tempted to take this super lame action just to get that achievement yeah but you guys you're both a little too close to this end game here so you can also do the jump four that doesn't cost you any resources and would maybe be better for you i don't know if you're looking for an action that doesn't cost you anything yeah i think instead well i was going to do this because it was going to give me a person and then i get another person and then i have four people and i don't know oh you've got one extra person yeah yeah but you know what i'm actually i'm just gonna i'm just gonna terraform because i'm gonna get the other achievement by doing that so it's a little bit better for me and take my own pawn over here to the terraforming guilt and i will spend one two three four and one of my people which is okay and we'll grab the one that i can grab so the one of those ones goes back into deep space or i guess one of the twos goes into deep space that's right it's unfortunate because now i no longer have four ships so yeah it was uh it was it was it would have been so cool if i could have made it happen but it didn't make it happen and that is okay you can have one achievement instead of another that's actually my benefit is that i'm going to get a ship so i need to take one of my right mouse shifts right most boxes and turn it into a level two ship so uh i spoke too soon i still don't know if i'm gonna make it happen but we'll see we'll see we'll see how long this game is gonna go from here so i will drop that yeah i'm gonna drop that on seoul okay i do believe and we'll drop this here for everyone all right and what do i want to do here i guess i will double up on food and then i will make one two three people and that is going to be my turn i thought you said you were going to get a an achievement this turn oh i am excuse me i colonize two systems i have two level three technologies and i have automated four disks indeed you are killing those achievements that's four plus three seven points and we're one away from triggering the end game nice just not to sound a bit like a supplicant here but i did go into this game thinking what would nick do get achievements that's the thing you want to do look for the synergy and the achievements and go for it yeah that was good um i am going to hive mind compute for six oh here we go and i'll do this um which is gonna be one of these peeps it goes there there's no event for the force right correct so this could be a red or a blue i think blue given the disappointment of that red is the way to go here i could parallel universe generate there we go or technological singularity um so the first one says from now on which is you know a text that i am pretty sure is going to be great for me all actions cost less for me get one for the number of two or threes that i have i have a decent number of twos and threes don't i one two three four five i haven't came out yeah keep the medium exponent of a three or double the points of your achievements so that's i think just way better yeah i'm gonna go with the parallel universe okay that's the way to go and an immediate three so i can jump a ship around somewhere i can automate stuff i can jump more ships around a lot of jumping options yeah automate and jump those are your options notice that there's still no colonizing options yeah it's been a it's been a colonization starved game but tons of research and you know some games it's the opposite where colonizing is easy but it's super hard to research all right i'm gonna do the planetary scale research up there which makes this box into a two and then i can jump two spaces so i'll go one two and i'll drop out both of these kicks out anastasia and i'll make five rocks one two three four five and you put an achievement down right and i put an achievement down to trigger at the end of the game yeah so you were the first player so you get one more turn and then the two of us get two more turns and um i don't feel like i'm doing very good right now but we'll see what the end score is but man i feel like i'm doing some stuff but i don't feel like it's gonna be good enough either way i have two turns and so realistically i i'd like to get one of these achievements and i could potentially take a colonization achievement next turn i think if i do a ship move turn right now so i don't think this is necessarily going to be a winning play for my last two turns but i'm gonna do a jump four to try and set myself up and then i'll go one two [Music] and then honestly i think i'll go three and then not do the last one i could fly somewhere else and drop another token off but it's more important for me to defend to try and colonize one more time i think so i do get to put down a metal that doesn't really help me out in this moment but that's just fine and then i am going to make three ore and that's my second to last turn done all right well i am so close to getting this achievement all i have to do is produce and not do anything else and john just took one of the few don't do anything else spot that is possible for me at this moment so besides this one which is just like almost a past turn but you know it's not nothing well funnily enough i'm get i've never taken this action before and you pointed it out at the beginning of the game so here we are full circle i'm going to take this action that lets me jump to because it says optional to turn the person and i'm not going to turn the person so i'm going to go there i'm going to jump to i don't have the other thing is i don't there's really no like i could get two points uh by researching more level two tech but there's really no other way because of the way i played this game i have no way to make ships i have no way to do much of anything um it's a very research heavy game so anyways all right so i can jump too so uh i'm gonna go ahead and try to make them count um that's gonna be difficult because i can't get very far let's see here oh nick you know how much i love you right so much i'm really sorry about this um but i'm gonna come here into here yeah that's effective okay wow do i have choices there because what i'd really like to do is coal so uh space coal obviously i do have choices all right and then i'm going to make four space cool space rock or whatever you want to call it and with that i will have accomplished eight or four people four ships four chips yeah one two three four yep for three more points you're doing really well all right last turns let's turn i am going to colonize three rocks one person this person this planet uh which is just for points at the end throw this on there and i have a colonizing bonus yeah and i don't think it matters i'm just gonna make rocks at the end of the game for the fun of it and i am done for the game okay i am also going to colonize and i could again double up but i'll just go to the terraforming guild because it's functionally the same so for rock and uh one person which is just the way he doesn't own it it's functionally the same it also blocks anastasia from colonizing for the rest of the game that's true i keep forgetting about that i truly do all right so now i can colonize and it's gonna be cygni so i need three which means two is gonna go back and this is gonna be my fourth i'm gonna put down i guess this i don't think it's super matters and from now on i can pay three ruck to make a box into a person at any time i want during my turn for all of my zero turns for the rest of the game so now i'm gonna finish by one two three four and then i can achieve one measly achievement and i only get three points where instead of four cause nick just barely snaked that so there we go i'm on the board all right final turn all right well uh i'm gonna jump four with my final turn and i'm going to see if i can claim some of these end game points here over here on the space board very likely with so much colonizing space is suddenly pretty empty surprisingly i can't because i have to stay here and here if i want to defend these two spots um although i may move just to take a few away uh we're tied in seoul and i you've got deep space so i think i might let nick have it just to get let's see i'll give them one to get rid of two did we end up doing something where or counts at the only one point for every two or i have you do yeah three four great so if i go let's see one two three four one two three four i'd be turning what i had was two points into one two well i had two points i'm going to turn that into three points basically so not much better uh unfortunately i'm taking a point from john but i am uh giving two points back to nick this goes back this comes out actually short a disc so this will go here and nick oh i know nick nick takes it over with his food i think i was the loser there but honestly i mean again i could be surprised but i feel like i feel like i was already the loser so it's okay all right the game is over so we can start doing end game scoring we're going to score for a bunch of things but the first thing is just going to be technologies so we can look here at the map and the level ones are with one twos are two threes are three and the fours are variable so let's start with the easy ones i'm going to get one two three four five six seven eight nine points for tex anastasia is going to get one two three four five six seven eight nine 10 11 12. at least pre the fours and then nick has got one two three four five six seven eight nine 10 11 12 13 14 15 i think that's good to me next up we can score the two level fours which i am not a part of so anastasia is going to get one point for every two or they have at the end of the game yeah all that thinking about the end game and i think actually by not producing the extra ore at all was a wash but that's a bunch of more right there how much i know but it's a max at seven and i'm pretty sure i only got six one two three four five six six points i got seven for mine it made me uh doubled your achievement research double cm uh oh i also get uh three points because i have this one private level three over here yep can't forget that next up we are going to get points for the automation tracks looks like i have two four i have three after that we get points for our colonized systems got 10 for me 20 here i have 13 points over here plus another three and one for each colonized system so 13 plus seven so i've got 20 in colonies and then we can do control in outer space i control deep space so i get one point um and then friendly ties and soul yes a friendly tie soul so nick gets one two three and anastasia gets one two three four five six and then we can score four event cards which are kind of all over the place there's one out here i believe that says nick is going to get an extra point for having the hive mind computing uh there's the galactic hq which says that whoever controls that area is going to get an extra point that's anastasia but we all lose two for the black market there's the yeah there's the black market where everyone went there so we all lose two victory points and then i just get one point for having this in front of me finally we have achievements where i get three nick gets seven and anastasia gets ten nice and then we just add it up you're kidding me i kid you not oh i can't believe i took i took those points away from john and gave them to you because i was very surprised when you did that i will say i thought i had you 54-47 wow yeah i almost don't even want to put my score down i don't okay but i do 38 points so that's uh that's kind of where i thought i'd end over the last few rounds there i just want to say this it's that this is what it's like to play with nick you think you've got a game you think you've got in the bag you think you're doing well you're putting a lot of achievements down you've scored a lot of points you've maxed everything out and then you're like out of just very film pretty good about yourself you think i got this i got this i finally beat nick and then he comes in and he doesn't just win he wins by seven points and you gave him those points because you thought he was so not a competition that you should never think it's a hubris check right there oh man how many points would i i'd see if i if i took this from you well you'd only been down too wouldn't it matter no would it would have felt better you do have i think one extra point now that i'm counting your uh text again i think we forgot this one so i think you have 13 instead of 12. great [Laughter] whatever well thank you well that's it uh nick wins anastasia second i came in a very pitiful third place and that's going to bring this game to a close uh now this is the first one of this type of playthrough video that we've done and because of that we would love to hear any constructive feedback that you might have about how this went we have done a bunch of iterating and experimentation and this is where we are at for the moment but we do know that things can be tweaked and things can certainly be done better in the future and again we'd love to hear that feedback now we are not actually done with beyond the sun just yet because the idea here is that in addition to playing the game we are also going to record a podcast episode and then discuss how this game went as well as the game in general now each of those episodes are going to be posted onto a new podcast called friendly ties you can search for that wherever you normally listen to podcasts and if you can't find that just yet because this is all very new then you can also listen to that episode by watching the video version of it that's posted on the john gets games youtube channel and you can find a link to that in the description of this video thanks again for hanging out with us as always i'd like to thank everyone who's been supporting this channel including these producer level patreon supporters if you too would like to directly support the channel in the creation of future videos like this one then please go to johngetsgames.com support also if you enjoyed this video please click the like button for it down below as well as the subscribe button for the channel thanks for watching

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Published: Sat Oct 09 2021