Terraforming Mars 2016
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Terraforming Mars: 2vs2
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Terraforming Mars: Albedo Plants Promo Card
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Terraforming Mars: Sterling Vents Promo Card
Terraforming Mars: Protected Growth Promo Card
Terraforming Mars: Static Harvesting Promo Card
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Terraforming Mars: Vermin Promo Card
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Terraforming Mars: Weather Balloons
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Terraforming Mars: Amazonis Planitia – Big Board Edition
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Terraforming Mars: Amazonis & Vastitas
Terraforming Mars: Anti-Desertification Techniques Promo Card
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Terraforming Mars: Aqueduct Systems Promo Card
Terraforming Mars: Astra Mechanica Promo Card
Terraforming Mars: Automa
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Terraforming Mars: Carbon Nanosystems Promo Card
Terraforming Mars: Cardboard Map Box Big Box Extension
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Terraforming Mars: Casinos Promo Card
Terraforming Mars: City Parks Promo Card
Terraforming Mars: Cyberia Systems Promo Card
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Terraforming Mars: Established Methods Promo Card
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Terraforming Mars: Giant Solar Collector Promo Card
Terraforming Mars: Hermetic Order of Mars Promo Card
Terraforming Mars: Homeostasis Bureau Promo Card
Terraforming Mars: Hospitals Promo Card
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Terraforming Mars: Kaguya Tech Promo Card
Terraforming Mars: Kuiper Cooperative Promo Card
Terraforming Mars: Mars Nomads Promo Card
Terraforming Mars: Martian Lumber Corp Promo Card
Terraforming Mars: Milestones & Awards
Terraforming Mars: Neptunian Power Consultants Promo Card
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Terraforming Mars: New Holland
Terraforming Mars: Prelude 2
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Terraforming Mars: Prelude 2 Kickstarter Promo Pack
Terraforming Mars: Public Baths Promo Card
Terraforming Mars: Red Ships Promo Card
Terraforming Mars: Soil Enrichment Promo Card
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Terraforming Mars: Solar Logistics Promo Card
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Terraforming Mars: St. Joseph of Cupertino Mission Promo Card
Terraforming Mars: Strategic Base Planning Promo Card
Terraforming Mars: Supermarkets Promo Card
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Terraforming Mars: Teslaract Promo Card
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Terraforming Mars: Tycho Magnetics Promo Card
Terraforming Mars: Utopia & Cimmeria
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Terraforming Mars: 16 Psyche Promo Card
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Terraforming Mars: Directed Heat Usage Promo Card
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Terraforming Mars: Head Start Promo Card
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Terraforming Mars: Icy Impactors Promo Card
Terraforming Mars: Robot Pollinators Promo Card
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Terraforming Mars: Supercapacitors Promo Card
Terraforming Mars: Corporate Archives Promo Card
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Terraforming Mars: Double Down Promo Card
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Terraforming Mars: Floyd Continuum
Terraforming Mars: Merger Promo Card
Terraforming Mars: New Partner Promo Card
Terraforming Mars: Terra Cimmeria – Big Board Edition
Terraforming Mars: Utopia Planitia – Big Board Edition
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Terraforming Mars: Vastitas Borealis – Big Board Edition
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Terraforming Mars: Asteroid Rights Promo Card
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Terraforming Mars: Bactoviral Research Promo Card
Terraforming Mars: Big Box
Terraforming Mars: Big Box Promos
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Terraforming Mars: Bio Printing Facility Promo Card
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Terraforming Mars: Harvest Promo Card
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Terraforming Mars: Outdoor Sports Promo Card
Terraforming Mars: Turmoil
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Terraforming Mars: Turmoil Promos
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Terraforming Mars: Atmo Collectors Promo Card
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Terraforming Mars: BGG User-Created Corporation Pack
Terraforming Mars: Colonies
Terraforming Mars: Jovian Lanterns Promo Card
Terraforming Mars: Lunar Exports Promo Card
Terraforming Mars: Prelude
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Terraforming Mars: Hellas & Elysium
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Terraforming Mars: Penguins Promo Card
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Terraforming Mars: Self-Replicating Robots Promo Card
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Terraforming Mars: Snow Algae Promo Card
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Terraforming Mars: Venus Next
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Terraforming Mars: Small Asteroid Promo Card
About the Game
In the 2400s, mankind begins to terraform the planet Mars. Giant corporations, sponsored by the World Government on Earth, initiate huge projects to raise the temperature, the oxygen level, and the ocean coverage until the environment is habitable. In Terraforming Mars, you play one of those corporations and work together in the terraforming process, but compete for getting victory points that are awarded not only for your contribution to the terraforming, but also for advancing human infrastructure throughout the solar system, and doing other commendable things.
As a player, you acquire unique project cards (from over two hundred different ones) by buying them to your hand. The cards can give you immediate bonuses, as well as increasing your production of different resources. Many cards also have requirements and they become playable when the temperature, oxygen, or ocean coverage increases enough. Buying cards is costly, so there is a balance between buying cards and actually playing them. Standard Projects are always available to complement your hand of cards. Your basic income, as well as your basic score, are based on your Terraform Rating. However, your income is boosted by your production, and VPs are also gained from many other sources.
You keep track of your production and resources on your player board. The game uses six types of resources: MegaCredits, Steel, Titanium, Plants, Energy, and Heat. On the game board, you compete for the best places for your city tiles, ocean tiles, and greenery tiles. You also compete for different Milestones and Awards worth many VPs. Each round is called a generation and consists of the following phases:
1) Player order shifts clockwise. 2) Research phase: All players buy cards from four privately drawn. 3) Action phase: Players take turns doing 1-2 actions from these options: Playing a card, claiming a Milestone, funding an Award, using a Standard project, converting plant into greenery tiles (and raising oxygen), converting heat into a temperature raise, and using the action of a card in play. The turn continues around the table (sometimes several laps) until all players have passed. 4) Production phase: Players get resources according to their terraform rating and production parameters.
When the three global parameters (temperature, oxygen, ocean) have all reached their required levels, the terraforming is complete, and the game ends after that generation. Combine your Terraform Rating and other VPs to determine the winning corporation!
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- A Mars terraformálása · Mars: Teraformace · Teraformiranje Marsa · Terraformacja Marsa · Terraformarea Planetei Marte · Terraforming Mars: Ο Αποικισμός Του Άρη · Покорение Марса · Тераформирай Марс · Тераформування Марса · חיים על מאדים · टेराफॉर्मिंग मार्स · พลิกพิภพดาวอังคาร …
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