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Arrange your Pads secretly
Behind your screen, place one Pad on top of the other to make decisions for the round
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Follow placement rules
Pads must be parallel or perpendicular to each other, and one Pad must cover 1 to 4 cells on the other
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Use Improvements optionally
Place Improvements face-up on Pads covering exactly 2 cells, or place face-down to produce 1 Goods later
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Reveal decisions
Once all players finish planning, set screens aside and show decisions
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Start at base price
All prices begin at 5 each round
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Adjust price down
Each active minus-dollar symbol reduces your price by 1
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Adjust price up
Each active plus-dollar symbol increases your price by 1
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Produce from symbols
Each active Production symbol on your Pads produces 1 Goods
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Produce from covered cells
Each covered cell on your Pads produces 1 Goods
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Produce from face-down Improvements
Each face-down Improvement produces 1 Goods
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Produce from Goods tokens
Each Goods token produces 1 Goods
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Store produced Goods
Place all produced Goods in the Available Goods section of your organizer
13
Determine turn order
Follow Priority Rule: lowest price goes first; ties broken by lowest VP on Scoreboard
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Take an Improvement
If your Improvement symbol is active, take 1 Improvement from the Improvement Block
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Take a Goods token instead
If your Improvement symbol is not active, take a Goods token
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Use new items next round
New Improvements or Goods tokens can be used starting next round
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Receive Progress markers
Get 1 Progress marker for each active Research symbol on your Pads
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Take turns by Priority
Following Priority Rule, spend Progress markers on Technologies
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Place Progress markers
Put markers in the space near your chosen Technology; you may distribute among multiple Technologies
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Complete research
When your Progress markers equal the Technology cost, take them back and place your Office marker on the Technology
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Claim Patents
Only the first player to complete a Technology takes its Patent (adds 1 to cost until claimed)
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Lose unused markers
Any Progress markers not spent disappear at end of your turn
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Receive Progress markers
Get 1 Progress marker for each active Logistics symbol on your Pads
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Expand to connected regions
Place Progress markers only in regions connected by lines to regions where you have an Office
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Complete expansion
When Progress markers equal region cost, place your Office marker and return Progress markers
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Place Offices left to right
New Offices always go in the empty space furthest to the left
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One Office per region limit
Each player can only have one Office per region unless Technology or Retailer allows another
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Follow Priority order
Take turns selling based on lowest price first
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Meet selling requirements
You can only sell where you have an Office, there are no Retailers, and Buyers are available
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Sell to red Buyers
Place Goods on red-numbered Buyers only if your price is equal to or lower than their number
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Sell to purple Buyers
Place Goods on purple Technology Buyers only if you have the required Technology
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Sell left to right
Always place Goods on willing Buyers from left to right; cannot skip red Buyers for purple ones
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Lose unsold Goods
Any Goods that cannot be sold return to your organizer's cube section
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Calculate sales VP
Multiply number of Goods sold by your price using the multiplication table on your screen
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Score region control
Player who sold the most Goods in a region receives VP shown above the rightmost Office
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Break ties by Office position
If tied for Goods sold, the player whose Office is furthest left wins
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Award second place
If the region shows second-place VP, award to the player with second-most Goods sold
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Record all VP
Update scores on the VP Scoreboard
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Remove all Goods
Take all your Goods off the game board and return them to your organizer
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Refresh Improvements
Remove unchosen Improvements from the board; add 5 new ones from the pile
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Reset prices
Move all Goods markers in the Price Block back to 5
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Advance the round
Move the Round marker to the next space
