Rusty Ballinger
United States
Arcata
California
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It's OK to make change with the bank (the "general supply," the pile of tokens next to the storage board with the harvest spaces), but not OK to make change with the tokens in the harvest spaces, except for the green & yellow field crops. To keep people from screwing that up & absent-mindedly making change with other kinds of food on the storage board, keep all the green & yellow field crops in the general supply.
Then, if anyone ever tries to touch the harvest board except to restock or take food when harvesting, slap their hand.
(A light, sharp slap, not a crushing downward blow which will send pieces flying. If they have to dig wooden mammoths out of the meat of their palm, you overdid it. But, on the other hand, you almost certainly won't have to do it a second time...)
(If you really want to set a memorable example without ruining a game in progress, perhaps you could do a demonstration before the game begins. "OK, everyone, pay close attention to what happens if you try to touch the harvest spaces when you're not supposed to. Safety goggles on... OK, Matt, go ahead and put these berries on that board there.")
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Fraser
Australia
Melbourne
Yep that was 12 Power Grid maps back to back over two days. Worth doing, but possibly not in such a concentrated burst.
Ooh yes, now a little to the left - my nose is itchy. No, no the other left! Now what colour is 12 supporter badge going to be I wonder?
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But I like punishing them when they get it wrong...
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Chris Johnson
United States
Azusa
California
One of Alabama 3's finest songs, especially the versions on the single this image is from...
Sweet Pretty M*th*rf*ck*ng Country Acid House Music - All night long!
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We do put the field crops on the board, but we have a little cup that all payments go into; this eliminates the potential to pay/make change with the wrong places.
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Todd Gardiner
United States
Seattle
Washington
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Your method might suggest to players that they can trade-up their food and thereby deplete the number of mammoths that might otherwise be restocked.
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Burster of Bubbles, Destroyer of Dreams.
United States
Sunnyvale
California
Just imagine the red offboard up here. I'll create it Real Soon Now...
Yes, I know a proper 18XX tile should have a tile number.
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We were heretics and played with poker chips. One mammoth, two bears, and 5 field crops... that's $15 in poker chips.
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Rusty Ballinger
United States
Arcata
California
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Grantor wrote: Your method might suggest to players that they can trade-up their food and thereby deplete the number of mammoths that might otherwise be restocked.
How so? Either way, there are two piles of mammoths, and one pile of grain.
(Even if it did suggest to players that they could do that, once you explain that they can't, it's not something they can do unintentionally. But if you're paying 4 with a fish & a yellow grain, putting the grain on the board with the other grain makes it easy to mistakenly put the fish on the board with the other fish.)
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Huzonfirst
United States
Manassas
Virginia
San Antonio, OKC, Miami, and Boston..who will win out?
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Morganza wrote: We were heretics and played with poker chips. One mammoth, two bears, and 5 field crops... that's $15 in poker chips.
OMG. Even cute Stone-age-eeples cannot stop the fanatical poker chipper from pushing their favorite gaming implement upon the table! 
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Morganza wrote: We were heretics and played with poker chips. One mammoth, two bears, and 5 field crops... that's $15 in poker chips.
But what about the hard limit on resource bits?
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Lacombe
Louisiana
It was a dark and stormy night.
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garygarison wrote: Morganza wrote: We were heretics and played with poker chips. One mammoth, two bears, and 5 field crops... that's $15 in poker chips. But what about the hard limit on resource bits?
It's been my understanding [and others'] that resources aren't component-limited.
EDIT: Official 2F answer from that thread: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/article/8425645#8425645
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Jason Lukac
United States
McKeesport
Pennsylvania
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Much like Power Grid, I believe, that if someone with fire for example, has many mammoths stored, the hunting filed is plentiful, and the refill amount is four, but there are only three in the general supply, then only three get refilled.
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Lacombe
Louisiana
It was a dark and stormy night.
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jlukac wrote: Much like Power Grid, I believe, that if someone with fire for example, has many mammoths stored, the hunting filed is plentiful, and the refill amount is four, but there are only three in the general supply, then only three get refilled.
This is incorrect. See above.
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Curt Hnatiuk
United States
St. Louis
Missouri
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jlukac wrote: Much like Power Grid, I believe, that if someone with fire for example, has many mammoths stored, the hunting filed is plentiful, and the refill amount is four, but there are only three in the general supply, then only three get refilled.
This is wrong.
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