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- behind the cosmic curtain with Bill Eberle
for thursday july 14 & 21, 2011
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 One quest which seems to unite the Cosmic Encounter®
Community is the quest for new aliens.
In our design database for Cosmic we defined some of the key “factors” of the game and then
cross matched these factors with our existing “power” game components – our online and board game components which were designed to be expanded forever simply by adding new members,
e.g. new Cosmic aliens and artifacts. One of our goals was to identify which areas of the Cosmic universe needed more rule breaking.
And one thing we discovered was that there were lots of holes and sparsely populated areas in the Cosmic universe - lots of
important game mechanics (the things we nicknamed factors) with few or no alien or artifact powers.
Here are the 24 Cosmic factors we defined with some examples of our matches:
(note . . . means there are more matches in the database than I'm showing here):
- alliance (Anti-Matter . . . Philanthropist . . . Force Field)
- artifact pod (Vulch, Plague)
- attack pod (Anti-Matter, Empath . . . Sorcerer . . .)
- colony (Disease, Filth, Wasp [original: Assassin])
- communication (Gambler, Ghost )
- destiny (Dictator)
- encounter outcome (Anti-Matter . . . Empath . . . Loser . . .Sorcerer . . .)
- encounter reward (Vacuum, Void, Warrior)
- encounter time frame use (Brat, Chronos, Dork . . . Machine . . . Emotion Control)
- extra (. . . Warpish, Warrior)
- game information (Dork, Gambler, Ghost . . . Mind . . . Trader)
- game resource acquistion/loss (Clone, Disease, Filch . . . Philanthropist . . . Vacuum, Void . . . Plague, Stellar Gas)
- game resource amount (Machine, Void)
- game resource use (Amoeba, Anti-Matter, Brat . . . Dork . . . Laser, Loser . . . Martian, Pacifist . . . )
- game resource value (Anti-Matter . . . Pacifist, Sorcerer, Tripler . . . Virus, Warpish )
- game time period value (Machine, Oracle, Sapient)
- m-rics (unused - available!)
- negotiate pod (Empath, Loser . . . Pacifist, Sorcerer, Plague)
- pod (Anti-Matter, Brat, Clone . . . Healer, Laser, Mind, Mutant . . . Stellar Gas)
- power (Anti-Matter, Martian, Cosmic Zap)
- power use counter (Brat, Dork)
- ship (Amoeba, Anti-Matter, Healer, Macron, Vacuum . . . Warpish, Plague)
- turn (Brat, Machine)
- warp (Healer, Vacuum, Warpish, Zombie, Mobius Tubes)
. . . continued . . . fan designed Cosmic Aliens and Artifacts
for thursday july 14 & 21, 2011
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