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2018
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During the second half of the nineteenth century in what was then Ceylon, today known to all as the nation of Sri Lanka, a deadly fungus killed off all the coffee plantations on the island thus causing a serious economic crisis. The Scot James Taylor, and later many other entrepreneurs, set about substituting tea plantations for coffee plantations and hence creating what many connoisseurs today consider to be the best tea in the world.
In Ceylon, players take on the role of the pioneers who developed the Ceylon tea industry. As such, they build plantations in different districts and at different altitudes. They produce tea and try to sell it to the most important export companies. To favor this task, they must win the favor of the counselors of each district and develop the necessary technology that allows them to get ahead of their competitors.
At the end of the game, players score points for having plantations in each district, for meeting demands that have been set, for the level of technological development reached, and for the amount of money collected. In the end, the player who has the most points wins.
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Board Gaymes James Review at 2:01 sentiment: negative
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Overall sentiment (raw)
negative
Pros
- great artwork
- 3D component feel
Cons
- game can end quickly before an engine is fully developed
- harvesting cards seem limited
- difficult to fill contracts
Thematic elements
- tea production and contracts
- tea harvesting and planting
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Engine Building — harvesting/planting actions to run an engine for production
- engine-building — harvesting/planting actions to run an engine for production
- Resource Management — managing harvesting resources to fulfill contracts
- resource management / set collection — managing harvesting resources to fulfill contracts
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- the box itself is also a player aid on the inside it has the map that's also on the rulebook for what destinations are connected
- Neon is like SimCity meets Seven Wonders
- it's very well balanced it plays well and it's very pretty
- the harvesting cards seem to be very limited so I could plant a lot of tea but I can't really get that tea in order to fill the contracts
- I definitely recommend making sure that you're in a hotel that has space for playing games so that you can actually get in some games
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Gaming Rules! Discussion at 1:44:51 sentiment: mixed
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Mixed
Pros
- Love civil evolution
- Can teach the entire game from memory
Cons
- Brain loses track of what's happening
- Short-term memory disappears
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none
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Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Solo Play — This is why I don't solo game when I'm not live streaming because live streaming it and talking to the audience and keeping things going is the only way that I can actually get my brain to, you know, work and be able to cope with playing the actual game itself.
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- Movie Tricks is really good. Movie Tricks is from Chitty Fox Games. It's a trick taker, but it's got a bit of a kick and I really like that.
- Severton is a game from Vlades Shaattle. You may have heard of Vlad Shaattle, but he's got a new game this year called Severton. It's the first time he's had a new game published for about 10 years. And a little bit like Dutch Resistance: Orange Shall Overcome, it's a cooperative game where you're trying to complete missions. And it's really, really good. And not many people are talking about it.
- The new version for me is an improved version of the game. So, if you like Ingenious or Genal, whatever you want to call it, then have a look at the 3D version. That was really good.
- we played this game called drop alter and I absolutely blitzed it. I mean I think I won I think I won six of five of the six rounds that we played or something like that.
- In general, I don't play abstract games. But there are certain ones which I do play and I do like.
- Project L is another really really good game and I really like Project L and uh and that is a completely abstract game.
- I dread the day when I have to play on Mars again because I don't have the time, mental energy, everything else to go back and relearn on Mars.
- Talisman. 34 year gap between playing it.
- as much as A Trespass Odyssey was the most complicated game that I've ever played and some of the rules were extremely confusing and we weren't sure of some of the rules after 25 games, that game had things in it which I have never had that experience from any other game ever.
- And I've heard that Kingdoms for Lawn offers a similar experience.
- But when I'm playing it solo, if I'm not live streaming it, my brain because of the weird memory issues that I have, literally gets to a point and I go up and it just stops and my short-term memory disappears and I'm like, I have no idea not only what I was doing, but where we are, what phase we're on, or anything like that.
- live streaming it and talking to the audience and keeping things going is the only way that I can actually get my brain to, you know, work and be able to cope with playing the actual game itself.
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The Dice Tower Discussion at 3:32 sentiment: neutral
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neutral
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- Kais
- Spirium
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Quotes (from this video)
- That's why I'm not an actor.
- Top 10 reasons Joey's not an actor.
- Language independent.
- Three ninjas have slipped inside.
- You can be tattooed like me. Not really, but there's fake tattoos.
- This is not a drill. Come play test with us.
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