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Game Mechanics
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Strategies for Manipulating Trade. Yellow and Green Actions. See: Board game basics. In addition to these five layers, there are two more game layers of Ludopolis that are not currently activated.). Learn more about the three groups. At work in each Ludopolis game:.
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Ludopolis: Product Details
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Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer 8 work well. Playing time: 1 hour. The turn system used in Ludopolis guarantees that all games will finish in one hour. A game starts starts when the first player enters the game. If you do not fill up a game with people that you invite, games will still be open to the public. Recommended age: 18 and up. Not only is Ludopolis composed of several levels. Tactical skills dominate at the city level, but at the inter-city level, long-term thinking is crucial. Each new cit...
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Scoring
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Score is achieved primarily through culture. "First Maker" awards can also provide a small boost to your score. In Experiment games only, you can also gain small bonuses through the challenges. Every turn, the culture of all your cities is added to your score. For example, if you have one large city with 46 culture and a small city with 7 culture, your score will increase by 54 each turn. The maximum culture level. Each turn, the citizens. Might also increase a city's culture. Since games are never l...
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Site Map
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Playing for the first time. Each Ludopolis game is a rich living world. Pace your learning and don't try to learn everything at once. Start with a top-level overview. For a brief explanation of the point of the game — cities with high culture scores — and the systems within the world that will let you build great cities, such as attracting traders and immigrants. Read Board Game Basics. To how to use your pawn to move and to add cities to the game board. Playing the tutorial game. Action Points and Gems.
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Board Game Basics
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Learn about game turns, moving your pawn, adding cities to the game board, scoring, and winning. Turns and action points. Each turn gives you another action point, or. One emerald represents 3 sunstones. You can save up turns and spend them later. Learn more about action points and gems. Your pawn and moving. The placement of your pawn determines what you can see and where your actions take effect. Other players' pawns will appear as a large version of their flag. It costs 1 turn (1 sunstone) to move.
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City-Themed
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The Ludopolis game is city-themed because:. The city-themed game rules of Ludopolis make strategy more fun. And a pure strategy game. Because game rules sometimes correspond to real-life rules, they can also be easier to learn and remember. Because the rules are more intuitive and easier to learn, it helps you practise systems thinking. When you understand the depth of the complex interacting systems within the game. You can also learn some basic ideas that underlie real cities and economies.
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Sharpen Strategic Skills
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Ludopolis has several layers where strategic skills can be used — diplomacy between players, city planning, immigration patterns, and trade systems — as well as the interactions between these layers. Ludopolis was designed from the ground up to be a arena for exercising strategies, and to have sufficient complexity that the more players and students learn, the more strategies become apparent. Ludopolis will not make you a better chess player. Learn more about the three groups.
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Tutorial Walkthrough
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So you've decided to try out the game Ludopolis! That's just swell. Ludopolis is a city building game composed of various sub-games. A good place to start is a tutorial game. This guide will walk you through all the challenges in the tutorial, as well as give you more background information for each challenge. If you've already started the tutorial game, we're ready to start with the first challenge below. If not, see Playing for the first time. Stage I: City Basics. Challenge 3: Unclaim a land. To claim...
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Ludopolis Game Types
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All three types of Ludopolis games are free to play and require no registration. Small milestones develop your city building skills. Longer turns give you more time to think. Offence is disabled for more relaxing play. Game length: 1 hour / 120 turns. Turn length: 30 seconds. Allows you to experiment with all games features with no goals. Or, an optional series of challenges. Picks up where the tutorial milestones left off. Game length: 1 hour / 240 turns. Turn length: 15 seconds. For the exact time).
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Terrains
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Provide many benefits and require very little work. Attract citizens from other cities. Keeps your citizens happy and raises your maximum culture level. Provide the trade capacity. Needed for merchant families to flourish in your city. For the citizens' everyday needs. Used by other industries. Can keep your citizens safe from unfriendly neighbours. Upgrading your city centres. You can also build the quaint Old Country architecture. But not the unpleasant rebel fabrications. Info on construction projects.
