Reply: Eclipse: Rise of the Ancients:: General:: Re: price...

by hidamiyiagi

kreikkaturkulainen wrote:

Kalecgos wrote:

RDewsbery wrote:

Expansions are often poor value, including mostly fresh air in the box.

E:ROTA doesn't really fall into that trap; there are almost half as many components as there were in the base game, and my copy took an age to punch last night; I certainly didn't feel short-changed in any way. Of course, one of the reasons why I feel expansions represent poor value is that I tend not to play them very often; I'm hoping that ROTA can be mixed in with the base game pretty seamlessly, though in all honesty I'm not sure that I can see myself playing this with 8 or 9!

I'm pretty sure I'm going to play with most of what ROTA has to offer most of the time, but there's a bunch of components that are only used for 7+ players games. So in total if you're not playing 7+ a lot then I think the expansion is a little expensive - compared to the base game (which I think was cheap)!

Well, I think that having the possibility to go beyond 6 players is what makes it worthwhile. Even if I play a 6+ game once a year. Rare, but epic.

Btw, which components are you referring to?

I think that if you are playing with 6- players the only components that you cannot use are the extra technology and reputation tiles. Even the secondary action pawn can be used but it is not recommended if you play with fewer than 7 players.

I have had a game recently with 6 players and we have used everything except the extra tech tiles (basic), the extra rep tiles, the direction of play tile (we have used the variable turn order unofficial variant) and the 2 large pawns and we have had the best Eclipse game so far! So I think that 40 Euros it is a very logical price for all that, even if you are never going to play with 7+ players