by Jimmer
A friend of mine was playing them for the first time, and came up with a good point - if you have a disc to spare, and you're going into battle later at the end of the round...influence to regain colony ship/rerolls.In some ways, the Lyra VP from shrines is similar to the bonus points that the Exiles get for orbitals, the Ancient Ships for the Descendants, or the system count for the Planta...if all four of those players are in the game and investing in their bonus structures, the bonus VPs should be about the same. (You can spend more brainpower on figuring out their military/tech weaknesses instead of bean-counting VPs.)