by joshaubry
noodlemans wrote:
Fair enough. What if any player could research with either marker but if both players wanted to research at the same time the player with the primary marker gets to pick a technology first?
Then the player with the 2nd marker would be able to research before the 2nd player to receive the 1st marker.
Best I've been able to come up with is you may pass the 2nd marker without doing anything the first time you get it if you have not already taken an action that round, i.e. this only applies to players that get the 2nd marker before they ever get the 1st.
There are some weaknesses with that, like some have pointed out that everyone may choose to pass it to delay any decisions and then it partially negates the time savings. You could address that by making it a bit more fiddly and require that if you do pass, then you must research when you get the 1st marker. Though the fiddlyness ends as soon as the 1st marker gets back to the 1st player -- at that point for the remainder of the round play goes according to the rules.