just what i have tried to do as well. but thatās not the kind of āclickā iām longing for, and who wants to score decently?
iām still searching for grand strategies or overwhelming secrets behind the curtain.
or is it just about establishing the most efficient galactic bureaucracy, working through the scripted lists with well oiled precision?
i will set up a 4P game with the first players who wanted to join.
in sequence those players were:
@JMH.75
@kennfusion
@geigerm
i made a mistake when setting up the first game. i have already left that game and set up a new one with these options:
shuffle players
turn order by passing
delay passive power charging
players choose their factions
wasnāt sure about ālast player rotates sectorsā. useful and recommended?
a must have or too powerful?
should we start from scratch with this option enabled? think we should check this out in a later game.
@geigerm the first player to choose his faction now.
Yeah I know, but generally playing that way allows you to discover the ways to score big along the way.
It appears that the Itars break that rule also, correct? They allow you to āspendā area II to move to area III without perm losing the power.
I kind of liked having my faction chosen for me in the first game I played, only because I find the faction choices a bit overwhelming. Unsure if the best way to learn the game is to try a bunch of different factions across multiple games, or just keep playing the same faction until Iām confident in using it. Feel like this is one of the issues I ran into trying to learn TM.
Ha! Good learning game - in particular I learned too late I would have won by 1 point instead of lost by one point if I had spent my remaining power for some leftover resources! 
GG @kennfusion @JMH.75 !
GG - I planned for federations badly, but learned from the mistake.
Gg All! Very close finish!
guess i must have missed something.
but i donāt understand why JMHās Bescods were asked āto accept or reject passive power gainā when Kennfusionās Itars upgrded their mine to a trading station at all?
(JMH accepted and traded away one VP for charging two power tokens)
but distance is 3 spaces, so why?
still learning the game so iād like to know about all dirty details.
iāve studied the faction abilities but couldnāt find a hint either.
Are you sure it is not the placing of the second building in that sector which causes the power charging?
hmm. you mean because of option ādelay passive power chargingā is activated?
so that message at the top of the screen came up when Kennfusion had upgraded his mine, but in fact referred to my settlement on the Gaia planet to the right?
and all the decisionmaking comes up when your turn begins?
yeah, that might be the hint i was searching for. thanks for the enlightenment!
a very useful but confusing little option that is 
btw iām liking GP more and more. what a fun game!
the flow reminds me on Lost Ruins of Arnak, although quite a different piece of cake.
I also am liking the game. I realized though I need to carve out some time to play a bunch of faster games against the AI with the different factions and get a feel for the ones I like.
@halfvoid
I see that you have Gaia Project on Steam ā¦ have you played it enough to say how it is on that platform?
Definitely prefer it on Board Game Arena if Iām honest. Most of that developers games irk me either with clunky UI or making it really difficult to get a birdās eye view of all the information I want to know on my turn in the games Iāve bought.
Havenāt played it again since my first play on Steam.
Iāll go on BGA if you need another.
who wants to join Hardco and me for a test game on BGA?
Sorry, havenāt been following this thread, but got a ping from @JammaTal and I think I have successfully set up a BGA game with him and @Hardco
Is there a reason that sometimes my friends list shows up and sometimes it doesnāt? Am I doing something wrong?
So despite after learning that you can permanently spend power in a previous game, I figured I would try the Itars because they donāt lose that power when using it in area II. But what I did not really understand fully was that they can permanently use it to get a tech tile, which I must have done and did not realize that is what I was doing.
While I still think I like this game, I hate this app and its complete lack of information.
