Well - the cards are still essentially the same, although they've been reproduced in nice colour versions now, with typically entertaining artwork. If you want new cards, then the Y2K expansion pack is for you. Lots of new groups, and a couple of new Illuminati cards (The Church of Bob - needs 1 fewer cards than the current number of cards required for a general victory), and one other, which I can't remember atm. Do'oh!.
There are also a whole new batch of "smug cards" which can change the way the flow of play runs quite nicely, including the new "Unmasked" card, which when played allows you to change your illuminati group for another which isn't currently in play, thus allowing for some super sneaky victories.
There are a couple of rule modifications too, which seem to work quite nicely, including anyone being able to sacrifice 2 smug cards to counteract a privileged attack.
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The only criticism that I can level at it, is that the money chits that they supply are little bits of card board, which while being an improvement on the original paper-stock cash that came in the "bookcase game" first edition, they're still a pale, pale, pale immitation of the nice and shiny plastic money that came with the deluxe edition of 9 years ago or so.
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IMHO - it's always been an excellent game - and to be fair, it's just gotten better.
I saw a program a little while ago (I think it might have been on the Open University, I'm not sure), where they stated that it should be possible (albeit with space bourne spectrometers, far more sensitive than the ones we have up there at the moment), to work out the compisition of the atmosphere of said planets, by differencing the spectra of the light of the parent star against the spectra of the light shining through the atmosphere of the intervening planet.
Yeah, but we'll have to wait until Nasa get their Planet Finder program fully underway before we start seeing more 'tangible' information on the planets themselves. And what with the grim budget cuts congress have just dumped on them, the project might never happen.
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Well - the cards are still essentially the same, although they've been reproduced in nice colour versions now, with typically entertaining artwork. If you want new cards, then the Y2K expansion pack is for you. Lots of new groups, and a couple of new Illuminati cards (The Church of Bob - needs 1 fewer cards than the current number of cards required for a general victory), and one other, which I can't remember atm. Do'oh!.
There are also a whole new batch of "smug cards" which can change the way the flow of play runs quite nicely, including the new "Unmasked" card, which when played allows you to change your illuminati group for another which isn't currently in play, thus allowing for some super sneaky victories.
There are a couple of rule modifications too, which seem to work quite nicely, including anyone being able to sacrifice 2 smug cards to counteract a privileged attack.
[Oldgit mode : On]
The only criticism that I can level at it, is that the money chits that they supply are little bits of card board, which while being an improvement on the original paper-stock cash that came in the "bookcase game" first edition, they're still a pale, pale, pale immitation of the nice and shiny plastic money that came with the deluxe edition of 9 years ago or so.
[Oldgit mode : Off]
IMHO - it's always been an excellent game - and to be fair, it's just gotten better.
:)
Dan
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Yep. All made good sense.
I saw a program a little while ago (I think it might have been on the Open University, I'm not sure), where they stated that it should be possible (albeit with space bourne spectrometers, far more sensitive than the ones we have up there at the moment), to work out the compisition of the atmosphere of said planets, by differencing the spectra of the light of the parent star against the spectra of the light shining through the atmosphere of the intervening planet.
Dan
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Yeah, but we'll have to wait until Nasa get their Planet Finder program fully underway before we start seeing more 'tangible' information on the planets themselves. And what with the grim budget cuts congress have just dumped on them, the project might never happen.
*sigh*
Politicians. Don't you just love 'em?
Dan
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