Some clarifications after reading the rules | Automobile

Madhujith Venkatakrishna

(madhujith)

India
Bangalore
Karnataka

Hi All,

Just finished reading the rules and some clarifications:

- In the 2nd, 3rd and 4th round when a player draws 2 demand tiles of the same denomination (E.g. 4&4 or 2&2 etc), my understanding is one goes to the mass market and the other to the mid-market...correct?
- In the executive decision section of the board where we place the factory shut down tile- should we replenish that if someone has decided to shut down using the tile there or one tile for the whole game?
- The lower value of car's sale price is used only when a discount/advertisement marker is used right, else it is the higher value?
The discount/advertisement markers is for the entire cycle of sale and not just 1-is-1 sale i.e. say I had 2 discount markers and 1 advertisement marker- I can sell all the cars in that production house (3 at a time) in order till the demand exhausts and not just 3 cars in the 1st flush and one car when we go around again?
- How do you keep track of the shutdown markers as to which belongs to which player if there are many and for the rest of the turns?
- As I've not played not sure if this could happen- Could there be a situation where a person might go bankrupt? And is Elimination a possibility in this game?

Thanks a lot for your help.

Best,
Madhu

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Posted Sat Jan 7, 2012 11:49 am
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Matt Davis

(coolpapa)

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Upland
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- That's correct - the two tiles always go different places, even if they're the same.

- There's one executive decision shut down marker each turn.

- Only discount marker causes the lower price. The advertising marker does not (which is why it costs R&D cubes). And yes, they last the whole selling cycle.

-I've not seen it come close to bankruptcy. Don't forget you get cash back when you shut down factories. I suppose it's plausible, but it seems like you'd have to be trying to do it to make it happen.

Posted Sat Jan 7, 2012 11:57 am
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Medievalbanquet

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And if you never have, you should. These things are fun and fun is good.

Yes, bankruptcy would be really rare.

If you had a turn where you spent all your cash, didn't produce any cars, had already taken both loans and THEN took a bunch of loss cubes at the end of the turn, I suppose you could be bankrupt. If that happened, this isn't your game.

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Last edited Sat Jan 7, 2012 3:52 pm (Total Number of Edits: 1)
Posted Sat Jan 7, 2012 3:52 pm
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Rod Spade

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madhujith wrote:

my understanding is one goes to the mass market and the other to the mid-market...correct?

Correct.

madhujith wrote:

In the executive decision section of the board where we place the factory shut down tile- should we replenish that if someone has decided to shut down using the tile there

Yes.

madhujith wrote:

The lower value of car's sale price is used only when a discount/advertisement marker is used right

Only if there is a discount marker - discount then applies to all cars on that space.

madhujith wrote:

The discount/advertisement markers is for the entire cycle of sale and not just 1-is-1 sale i.e. say I had 2 discount markers and 1 advertisement marker- I can sell all the cars in that production house (3 at a time) in order till the demand exhausts

With 3 markers, the space would sell 4 cars each time around.

madhujith wrote:

How do you keep track of the shutdown markers as to which belongs to which player

It doesn't matter - once a space is shut down, it belongs to no one.

Posted Sat Jan 7, 2012 6:03 pm
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