Inventions: Evolution of Ideas

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Sourced from: https://jmo.name/games

Player Aid Author: Jarrod Moore

Description

Follow the evolution of ideas and inventions through times to progress your society.

  • Place main board in centre of table
  • Place following markers on main board for each player:
    • Scoring marker on 0 space of scoring track
    • Turn order marker on turn order track (in turn order, going from top to bottom)
    • Era marker on one of first 4 spaces below era track (in any order)
    • Influence marker on space 1 of influence track
  • Place chronos meeple on leftmost space of era track
  • In each region on main board:
    • Place 1 sage meeple on sage space
    • Place 1 random knowledge tile face up on knowledge space
    • Place 1 random specialist tile face up to left of idea space
  • Prepare milestone tiles:
    • Separate tiles by letter
    • Shuffle each deck of tiles
    • Place a tile from Deck A on each space of common knowledge display
    • Place a tile from Deck B on each player's private display space on main board:
      • Place tiles on all 4 player private displays, even when game has less than 4 players
    • Place 3 tiles from Deck C next to board to form eureka display
    • Place Decks D, E and F above eureka display
  • Prepare Idea/Invention cards:
    • Separate cards by era
    • Set Era 1 and 2 decks aside
    • From Era 2 deck, separate out cards with letter A written on them
    • Place 1 random Era 2 A card on each region of board except regions containing specialist tiles with icons matching those in top row of assembly area of board
    • Separately shuffle era 3, 4, 5 and 6 decks
    • Stack decks with cards face up on top of each other in order such that era 6 is on bottom, and era 3 is on top
    • Place stacked deck next to main board
  • Prepare wealth tiles:
    • Separate wealth tiles by letter
    • Randomly assign letter to each of 7 region displays
    • Remove tiles from stacks so that stack has number of tiles according to following table: Player countABCDEFG222222223333322244444333
    • Place tiles on space in region displays
  • Prepare progress tiles:
    • Separate tiles by type and number
    • 2-3P: Remove 1 of each tile from each stack
    • Place tile stacks into progress tile display

Each player receives:

  • 1 player board
  • 1 player aid book
  • 30 citizens
  • 3 pillars of time markers:
    • 1 epoch marker
    • 2 season markers
  • 3 chain action tokens
  • 5 influence tokens
  • 4 aspiration tiles
  • 3 economy tokens
  • 3 random private goal cards (one of each type)
  • Place 2 citizens in academy (black)
  • Place 1 citizen in upper space of each of following:
    • Economy (teal)
    • Culture (white)
    • Technology (brown)
  • Place 1 citizen on private milestone in private display
  • Prepare influence tokens:
    • Set aside +1 influence token
    • Place other 4 tokens on matching influence spaces on player board
  • Place economy tokens on their spaces on player board:
    • 1 in lower-right corner of board
    • 2 on matching progress hexes on left half of board
  • Take idea from era 2 deck of idea cards that matches your private milestone
  • In turn order, each player takes an era 3 idea card:
    • Place card to right of your board
  • After all players have taken an era 3 idea card, create idea display by laying top 3 cards of idea deck beside board
  • Take 2 random inventions from era 1 deck of idea cards and place them to left of player board
  • Place 3 chain action tokens on space in upper left side of player board
  • Keep following near your board to form a personal supply:
    • Remaining citizen meeples
    • 4 aspiration tiles
    • 3 pillars of time tokens

  • In reverse turn order, players do the following:
    • Choose a region with an idea card
    • Place number of specialists matching those shown on specialist tile in that region:
      • Specialists placed must come from colour space on board matching colour of idea card
      • Specialists taken from academy (black) space are wild
    • Gain benefit depicted on specialist tile
    • Place +1 influence token token above leftmost influence space above/below region you chose:
      • Do not gain VP when you do this
    • Place 1 citizen meeple from your supply in that region on the map

This game takes place over 6 eras, with era 1 being the initial setup round and era 6 is when final scoring is performed. The remaining 4 eras contain 3 rounds each and represent different periods of human history.

The core loop in this game is that you are trying to present ideas that then lead to inventions that get shared with humankind so that they can be iterated on and improved to form new inventions.

A given idea does not have to be presented, invented and then shared by the same player.

During the game, players will place their pillars of time markers in the actions spaces in the assembly area. Each player can only ever have one of their markers on a given row of this part of the board. However, different players can have their markers on spaces occupied by another player's piece.

Certain actions in the game require citizen meeples to be placed. You can only ever use meeples that are in the upper space on your player board for a given specialty. If a citizen meeple is exhausted, it must be placed in the lower space for the given specialty.

Citizens can have one of three specialties:

  • Economy (teal)
  • Culture (white)
  • Technology (brown)

Scholars (black) can be used in place of any of the above 3 specialties:

  • If an action exhausts a scholar, it is exhausted as the type of specialist that it performed the action as
  • Otherwise, it is returned to the academy on your player board

Round Structure

With the exception of the setup round, a round is performed as follows:

  • The Chronos meeple is moved one space forward on the era track
  • Players take turns in turn order, where each player does the following:
    • Take 1 main action
    • Optionally, take 1 or more chain actions

Turn Structure

A player's turn is divided into 4 steps:

  1. Prepare chain action tokens
  2. Perform actions
  3. Aspirations become progress
  4. Build progress

2 player game rules

The rules for 2 player games are almost the same as 3 and 4 player rules, except for the following changes:

  • Players gain influence when an opponent performs a main action on the same action space as your season pillar tokens as well, not just the same space as your epoch pillar token

When it comes to Chronos specific rules:

  • All of Chronos' citizens are scholars and has no scholar limit
  • Chronos has access to all private milestones and milestones in the discard, not just their own
  • On Chronos' turn:
    • Move their season pillar to the next region in the migration path
    • Then try to perform one of the following 4 actions:
      1. Present an Idea
      2. Invent
      3. Share Invention
      4. Innovate
    • If Chronos is unable to perform any of the above actions in his current region, he moves to the next region and re-evaluates the actions until Chronos finds an action they can do

  • Find number of tokens marked next to your space on influence track
  • Move that many chain tokens from left to right in upper left corner of player board

A player's turn is divided into 4 steps:

  1. Prepare chain action tokens
  2. Perform actions
  3. Aspirations become progress
  4. Build progress

  • Place one of your idea card from right of your player board in region with no display card in it
  • Spend required number of specialists:
    • Cost is given on tile to left of card just played
    • Move that number of specialists from your player board onto specialist tile
  • Gain benefit depicted on specialist tile
  • At the end of your turn, for each idea you have presented this turn:
    • Select an idea from the idea display
    • Place the selected card to the right of your player board to fill the gap left by the idea card you played this turn
    • Slide the cards in the idea display down so that 4 cards are available to choose from

Chronos (2 player games)

Skip this action if this region already has an idea in it

  • Take the rightmost idea from the idea display and place it in the region
  • Place required 1 or 2 of his citizens on specialist tile to left of idea
  • Chronos does not receive bonus from specialist tile

  • Choose any presented idea on the board whose milestone you have access to:
    • The required milestone is given on the top right corner of the card
  • Place an aspiration token on the leftmost space of your tile display rotated so that the brown section of the tile is at the top
  • Move an available specialist of the same specialty as your idea from your player board to the invent space to the right of the idea
  • If the idea requires you to exhaust additional specialists to invent it, exhaust them now:
    • This requirement will be shown to the left of the invent space on the card, next to the required milestone
  • Flip the card over to its invention side

Chronos (2 player games)

Skip this action if this region already has an invention in it

Requirements for Chronos to be able to do this action:

  • Must have 1 citizen (which is always a scholar)
  • Required milestone must be on board:
    • If it isn't, move his pillar to next region and start Chronos' turn again
  • Take progress tile from display matching type of idea Chronos invented and region number:
    • If no progress tile of that type and region are left or Chronos already has a tile of that number, Chronos looks for tile of next region number, and the next one until Chronos can take one
  • Discard the progress tile taken by Chronos

  • Move an available specialist of the same specialty as the invention you want to innovate from your player board to the right of the invention
  • Gain 1 specialist of the same type as the invention and place it in the upper space on your player board for that specialty:
    • Take the citizen meeple from your personal supply
  • If you have a chain action token, you may perform the chain action to the left of the innovate space:
    • If you do this, place a chain action token on the card

Chronos (2 player games)

Skip this action if Chronos cannot innovate:

  • Move Chronos' pillar to the next region in the migration path and restart Chronos' turn
  • As usual, place a citizen from Chronos' supply on the Innovate space

  • The player whose citizens are to the left of the invention scores victory points equal to the era of the invention for each of their citizens to the left of the card
  • The inventor moves the invention to the left side of their player board
  • The innovator (if any) places a citizen from their supply in the same region on the map
  • You take one of the following:
    • 1 wealth tile from this region
    • 1 wild aspiration tile
  • Place the selected tile in the leftmost space of your tiles display:
    • If your tiles display is full, you can replace a tile in the display or you can forgo this benefit
  • Move all citizen meeples that were beside this invention to the matching region of the map

Chronos (2 player games)

Skip this action if Chronos cannot share an invention in this region:

  • Meaning that Chronos can only share an invention that they presented, invented or innovated
  • Chronos does not score victory points from this action
  • As usual move all citizens from invention to connected region following normal rules
  • Move topmost wealth tile from stack next to Chronos' supply
  • If there are none left, Chronos takes a Progress tile matching the type of invention they shared and the region number
  • If no progress tiles of that region remain, look for a tile matching next region, and next until one can be taken
  • If Chronos was the inventor, discard the card
  • If Chronos was the innovator, place a new citizen in the map region

  • Place 1 aspiration tile in the leftmost space of your tile display rotated so that the teal section is at the top
  • Choose 1 region and return 1 or more of your citizens from that map region home to the upper space of specialty area matching the idea or invention in the region from which they returned:
    • If there isn't a card in the region, their specialty is determined by the rightmost card of idea display
    • If there are no idea cards in the display, you may choose their specialty:
      • They must all be returned to same specialty
  • If you have any chain action tokens remaining, you may perform a chain action from any one of the inventions to the left of your player board:
    • If you do, place a chain action token on the card
    • You are not allowed to chain the same invention's action twice in one turn

  • Choose an influence token on your player board that you wish to place:
    • You may place any influence token you wish with this action, you don't need to do them in order
  • Choose region which matches the following conditions:
    • You do not have an influence token there:
      • You cannot have more than 1 influence token in a region
    • You have more citizens there than any other player
    • You have at least as many citizens as the number shown on your player board above the chosen influence token
  • Return the number of citizens shown above the influence token chosen to upper space of specialty area matching idea/invention of region citizens are returning from:
    • If there isn't a card in the region, their specialty is determined by the rightmost card of idea display
    • If there are no idea cards in the display, you may choose their specialty:
      • They must all be returned to same specialty
  • Place chosen influence token to leftmost empty influence space in region
  • Gain victory points covered by this token
  • Gain influence equal to number of face-up influence tokens you have on main board
  • If you have any chain action tokens remaining, you may perform the chain action of one of your face-up influence tokens from any region:
    • If you do so, permanently flip the used influence token face down, then place a chain action token on top of it

  • Place aspiration tile on leftmost empty space of your tile display such that the white part is at the top
  • Move 1 of your citizens on the map to an adjacent region, following a blue rope:
    • You cannot move a citizen on a region display space with this action
  • If a sage is in the new region and you still have a chain action token, you may place the chain action token near the knowledge tile and do the following:
    • If the knowledge tile shows a chain action, you may do this action and then flip the knowledge tile to the scoring side
    • Otherwise, if the tile is showing its 2 victory point side, gain the victory points shown on each knowledge tile on the map showing victory points and then flip all knowledge tiles to the non-victory points side:
      • All tiles are flipped, not just those with sages above them
    • Finally, move the sage from that region to the academy area of your player board

Note: You can only perform this action if the milestones of the eureka display are from a later era than your private milestone.

  • Move the bottommost card out of the common knowledge display and put it on the discard pile:
    • All citizens on the card are returned to their owners and placed in their academies
    • Your milestone's era number is the maximum number of scholars you can have in your academy:
      • You use the new milestone's era number for this calculation for yourself
  • Move your private milestone to the common knowledge display along with any diplomats on it:
    • Insert it above all milestone tiles with the same or earlier deck letter on it
  • Select a milestone from the eureka display
  • Move it to your private milestone display
  • Place 1 citizen from your supply on the left side of the card but don't take the action shown on it
  • Advance your era marker to an unoccupied space of the new milestone's era
  • Take the benefit of the chosen space

  • Move any specialist or scholar from your player board to a milestone tile on the board that:
    • Has at least 1 free space on its left side
    • You do not already have a citizen on
  • If the milestone belongs to another player and is from a more advanced era than yours, that player gains 1 influence
  • Take the benefit shown above the handshake icon on the milestone tile

  • Bring one of your citizens on a milestone home as a scholar:
    • Your milestone's era number is the maximum number of scholars that you can have at your academy
  • Take benefit shown above handshake icon on milestone tile you just left

  • Replace any aspiration tiles you received during your turn with progress tiles:
    • Progress tile must match type of aspiration tile received
    • You can replace wild aspiration tiles with progress tiles of any type
    • You are only allowed to have one tile of each number/letter

  • If you wish to build tiles this turn, pay influence cost showing on leftmost empty space of tiles display
  • You are only able to build a number of tiles equal to your milestone's era minus 1
  • For each tile you wish to build:
    • Place tile on any space of your progress map that is empty
    • Immediately gain benefit printed on that space
    • Pay placement cost in specialists:
      • To calculate the number of specialists to exhaust:
        • Start by taking the tile's base cost: Tile typeBase costEconomy1Technology1Culture1Wealth2
        • Add 1 to this cost for each previously placed tile that is adjacent to the new tile
        • Reduce this cost by 1 for each invention card of the same type that you have to the left of your player board
      • If the tile is an economy (teal), culture (white) or technology (brown) tile:
        • Exhaust specialists of the same type (or scholars)
      • If the tile is a Wealth (gold) tile:
        • Exhaust any mix of specialists

  • Advance Chronos meeple 1 space forward on era track
  • If Chronos entered new era, perform era change procedure

End of Era 1

  • 2P:
    • Chronos places one of their influence tokens on main board:
      • Place influence token in next region along in migration path where Chronos does not already have an influence token
      • Move season pillar to region where influence token was placed
  • Adjust turn order:
    • If at least one player's era marker is on change position in turn order space on era track:
      • Player who is in rightmost turn order space moves their turn order marker to desired space and adjusts the other markers to maintain relative order
  • Adjust influence:
    • Each player loses or gains influence as shown to left of their space of influence track

End of Eras 2-4

  • 2P:
    • Chronos places one of their influence tokens on main board:
      • Place influence token in next region along in migration path where Chronos does not already have an influence token
      • Move season pillar to region where influence token was placed
    • Take Chronos' current milestone and place it in common knowledge display, sliding down others as usual
    • Take rightmost milestone of eureka display and place it on Chronos' private milestone space
    • Move Chronos' marker on era track to era matching milestone in rightmost space
    • If he ends up on rightmost turn order space with era marker on it, he will adjust turn order to put himself first if possible during turn order change process
  • Adjust turn order:
    • If at least one player's era marker is on change position in turn order space on era track:
      • Player who is in rightmost turn order space moves their turn order marker to desired space and adjusts the other markers to maintain relative order
  • Adjust influence:
    • Each player loses or gains influence as shown to left of their space of influence track
  • Move all exhausted specialists to corresponding upper spaces
  • Retrieve season pillars:
    • Epoch pillar stays where it is on main board
  • For each sage on your player board:
    • Place 1 citizen from your supply on your academy:
      • You can store a maximum of your milestone's era number of scholars in your academy
    • Return sage to an empty sage space on main board
  • Return any economy tokens that were placed on economy progress tiles back to their spaces in lower right corner of your player board
  • Move all milestone tiles remaining in eureka display to common knowledge display:
    • 2-3P:
      • Move all non-human player private milestones first, then replace them with the rightmost milestone of the eureka display
  • For each tile that is pushed out the bottom:
    • Splay it on discard pile so names of discarded milestones are still visible
    • All citizens on it return to their owners as scholars:
      • You can store a maximum of your milestone's era number of scholars in your academy
  • Discard all idea cards from the previous era that are in the idea display
  • In turn order, check idea cards to right of your player board and discard ideas from previous era:
    • For each card discarded, take a new one from the display
    • Discarded idea cards are removed from the game entirely

End of the second era, and thus the game, will be triggered when one of following conditions is met:

  • A player has completed 4 sets of rubble
  • At least 3 of brown decks have been exhausted

End of the second era occurs at end of round when this condition is met, and then all players will one more round before final scoring occurs

At the start of era 6, all players score points for the following:

  • Your position on the influence track
  • Wealth tiles
  • 2 of your private goal cards

Winner is player with most victory points

Tiebreakers are:

  • Most tiles on progress map
  • Most inventions to left of player board
  • Most total citizens (not in supply)

Otherwise, if there is still a tie, victory is shared

Game is set up game like 3 player game with changes as given below. Solo mode requires use of 2 sets of unused player components for automa use.

Important Notes

  • Any time either bot scores points, they move the same scoring marker
  • Chronos NEVER does the following:
    • take chain actions or use pillars to take actions
    • use a player board, aspiration tiles or influence
    • has cards at any point during the game, including during setup
    • take actions shown on their influence tokens
  • Hephaestus NEVER does the following:
    • take actions shown on their influence tokens
  • All of Chronos' citizens are treated as scholars
  • Chronos only ever needs one scholar when inventing
  • If you place your pillar in same action space as bot, bot receives 2 points
  • If bot places pillar in same space as human player pillar, player receives influence as normal

End of Era

Before performing usual end of era steps, the following process is performed.

  • Shuffle Hephaestus' used action cards and place them at bottom of remaining deck
  • Give Hephaestus chain action marker if one is between current and next era on era track
  • If Chronos has influence marker between current and next era on era track:
    • Move Chronos to next region on map where they do not have influence marker
    • Place influence marker on leftmost empty space in this region
    • Score IP on most valuable space of region, even if this space is occupied
  • At the end of eras 2, 3 and 4:
    • Chronos takes new milestone:
      • Move current milestone to common knowledge display
      • Take rightmost milestone from Eureka display, place in bot's private milestone space
      • Put 1 citizen on new milestone tile
      • Advance bot's era marker to rightmost space of next era
      • Adjust turn order as usual after this placement
    • If there are still milestones in Eureka display:
      • Non-player upgrades their milestone:
        • Move milestone to common knowledge display
        • Replace it with rightmost milestone in Eureka display
      • If 3rd or 4th milestone is still in display, they are placed in common display
    • Refill Eureka display
  • Bots score 2 points for each sage returned to board

Final Scoring

  • Bots score points for their inventions, progress tiles and wealth tiles according to table below:ResourceEasyNormalHardInventions234Progress Tiles234Wealth Tiles345
  • Game can be scored in one of two ways:
    • Beat combined score of bots
    • Achieve 8 accolades
  • Accolades are scored according to following table:GoalAccoladesBeat bots score2Beat bots after sharing all inventions on board that they have presented1Beat bots score by more than 20 points2Have 10 or more inventions2Score 6 or more wealth tiles1Have all 7 progress tiles of 1 type1Have all 7 spaces on main board filled with ideas1All presented ideas currently on board are invented1Have all of your citizen meeples in play1Fill all spaces of your progress map2Have 8 or more influence at end of game1
  • Your final rank is as follows:Accolades ScoredRank1-2Neanderthal3-5Medieval6-8Technologically Advanced9-11AI12-14Genius15-16Alien

Game is set up game like 3 player game with changes as given below. Solo mode requires use of 2 sets of unused player components for automa use.

Components

  • Shared components:
    • 1 solo board
    • 1 scoring marker:
      • Points scored by either bot are scored using same scoring marker
  • Chronos:
    • Supply of citizens meeples
    • Turn order marker
    • Era marker
    • Influence tokens
    • 1 season pillar:
      • Chronos does NOT use epoch pillar or second season pillar
  • Hephaestus:
    • Supply of citizen meeples
    • Turn order marker
    • Era marker
    • Influence tokens
    • All epoch/season pillars of their colour
    • One extra unused season pillar of unused colour:
      • This is used to track current region targeted by Hephaestus
    • Chain tokens

Important Notes

  • Chronos NEVER does the following:
    • take chain actions or use pillars to take actions
    • use a player board, aspiration tiles or influence
    • start with or hold cards during the game
    • take actions shown on their influence tokens
  • Hephaestus NEVER does the following:
    • take actions shown on their influence tokens

Setup

  • Place 1 citizen for each bot on private milestones matching their chosen colours
  • Randomly place 4 of Chronos' influence markers face down on following places of era track:
    • Between eras 1 and 2
    • Between eras 2 and 3
    • Between eras 3 and 4
    • Between eras 4 and 5
  • Prepare Chronos' starting idea:
    • Give Chronos' idea card matching starting milestone
    • In lowest numbered region with idea card in it, replace this card with idea card that matches specialty of idea card Chronos just received
    • Return replaced idea card to box
    • Place 1 or 2 of Chronos' citizen meeples on specialty tile to left of his idea:
      • Chronos does not receive benefit shown on tile
    • Put Chronos' season pillar and one citizen on map in region linked to their idea
    • Place Chronos' remaining influence token in leftmost space above placed idea card
  • Player then performs Stone Age Setup process as in usual 3 player game
  • Prepare Hephaestus' chain action markers
    • Place 1 on solo board
    • Place 1 between eras 2 and 3 on era track
    • Place 1 between eras 4 and 5 on era track
  • Prepare Hephaestus' starting idea:
    • Choose region after region chosen by Chronos
    • Give Hephaestus' idea card matching starting milestone
    • In chosen region, replace this card with idea card that matches specialty of idea card Hephaestus just received
    • Return replaced idea card to box
    • Place 1 or 2 of Hephaestus' citizen meeples on specialty tile to left of his idea:
      • Hephaestus does not receive benefit shown on tile
    • Put one citizen of Hephaestus' colour and season pillar of unused colour on map in region linked to their idea
    • Place one of Hephaestus' influence tokens in leftmost space above placed idea card
  • Place 2 random Era 1 inventions next to solo board
  • Prepare Hephaestus solo action card deck:
    • Shuffle deck and place on leftmost space of solo board
  • Set player turn order to following:
    • Chronos
    • Human player
    • Hephaestus

Chronos

Turn Structure

  • Move Chronos' season pillar to next region on map in numeric order:
    • If the pillar is in region 7, it moves to pillar 1
  • Chronos then tries to perform the following actions in this priority order:
    • Present an Idea
    • Invent
    • Share
    • Innovate
  • If Chronos gets to Innovate action and cannot perform it, move Chronos to next region and run through priority list from the start
  • Chronos never benefits from the specialist tile in the region where he presents

Actions

Present an Idea

  • Conditions:
    • Region has no idea in it
  • Take rightmost idea from idea display and place in region
  • Place 1 or 2 citizens on specialist tile
  • Chronos does NOT gain benefit on specialist tile

Invent

  • Conditions:
    • Region does not have invention in it
    • Required milestone is on board
  • Place 1 citizen on invention space in region
  • Take 1 progress tile matching type of idea invented and region number:
    • Otherwise, take tile from next region number until one can be taken

Share an Invention

  • Conditions:
    • Region must have an invention in it that is shareable by Chronos
  • Follow rules as normal
  • If either bot invented this invention, place card next to board in a common pile
  • Chronos takes wealth tile next to card unless they already have that tile:
    • Otherwise, take progress tile matching specialty of shared card
  • Presenter scores VP as usual

Innovate

  • Conditions:
    • Region must contain invention that can be innovated by Chronos
  • Place 1 citizen in innovate space on card

Hephaestus

Turn Structure

  • Draw top card of action deck and place it on leftmost empty space on player board
  • Perform bot's actions:
    • Place epoch/season pillar for Hephaestus as usual in forum space matching action with arrow pointing to it:
      • Hephaestus follows rule that they cannot have two pillars in same forum
    • Move Hephaestus to region where they will take action
    • Resolve forum action:
      • If bot cannot perform action with arrow pointing at it, it then chooses next action card that it can complete, looping back to top of card if necessary
    • If chosen action on card has chain action next to it, attempt next action on card as chain action
    • Continue performing chain actions in this manner up to number of chain action token bot has
    • If bot cannot perform action that is chained this way, bot's turn ends even if they have chain marker tokens remaining
  • When Hephaestus takes progress tile:
    • Progress tile with same number as region and specialty matching idea card in region is taken
    • If no tiles of that type are left, progress tile of next number in sequence is taken until they can take tile
    • If bot performed Share action, wealth tile is taken instead

Actions

Present an Idea

  • Move bot pillar to next region not containing idea card
  • Take rightmost idea card from display and place it in region
  • Place 1 or 2 bot's citizens on specialist tile
  • Do not give bot benefits of specialist tile

Invent

  • Move bot pillar to next region where idea has not been invented
  • If required milestone for invention is not on board, skip this region and look for another one
  • Place 1 citizen on invent space
  • Ignore any requirements to exhaust citizens
  • Bot takes 1 progress tile from display matching type of idea invented and region number:
    • If unavailable, choose next number until one can be taken

Innovate

  • Move bot pillar to next region where this action can be performed
  • Place 1 citizen on innovate space
  • If bot still has a chain action token, ignore chain action on card and instead take next action on bot action card

Share an Invention

  • Move bot pillar to next region where invention can be shared
  • Follow action rules as usual
  • If either bot invented this invention, place card next to board in a common pile
  • Hephaestus takes wealth tile next to card unless they already have that tile:
    • Otherwise, take progress tile matching specialty of shared card
  • Presenter scores VP as usual

Travel

  • Move bot pillar to next region containing sage meeple
  • Place 1 citizen from supply
  • Move sage in this region to board
  • Gain progress tile matching region number and idea
  • If bot still has chain action token:
    • If knowledge tile is action side up:
      • Flip tile over and attempt next action on drawn card
    • Otherwise, if VP side was showing:
      • Gain VP for each tile showing VP side
      • Flip all tiles showing VP side over to show action side
      • Bot then ends their turn
  • Otherwise, flip knowledge tile over without gaining benefit, then ends turn

Call Specialist

  • Move bot pillar to next region with at least 1 of Hephaestus' citizens on map
  • Bring 1 citizen on that region space on map back to supply
  • Gain progress tile matching region number and idea
  • If bot has chain action marker, attempt to perform next action on card

Gain Influence

  • Move bot pillar to next region where influence token can be placed
  • Bot does not need to have citizens in region
  • If citizens are in region, bring one back to supply
  • Place 1 influence token face down on leftmost empty space in region
  • Score VP shown on most valuable space in region even if it's occupied
  • If bot has chain action token, attempt to perform next action on action card

Eureka

  • Send bot's milestone to common knowledge display
  • Take rightmost milestone from Eureka display
  • Choose rightmost space of era track of era shown on selected milestone
  • Ignore benefit on milestone that was selected
  • Bot gains VP equal to era of milestone
  • Add 1 of bot's citizens to milestone tile

Send Diplomat

  • Place diplomat on first milestone without any diplomats counter-clockwise from bot's private milestone
  • Ignore action on milestone tile
  • Bot gains VP equal to era of milestone
  • If the milestone belongs to player and they are in a later era, player gains 1 influence

Call Diplomat

  • Remove diplomat from first milestone with one of bot's diplomats on it counter-clockwise from bot's private milestone
  • Ignore action on milestone tile
  • Bot gains VP equal to era of milestone

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