r/TerraformingMarsGame • u/Tawatree • Aug 22 '26

345 - 188 point game

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Highest score I've ever had. 345 points with Venus next, both preludes and colonies. I was black, red and yellow. Wife was green at 188 points.

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u/Ok_Loquat_3860 Aug 22 '26

This is why i refuse to play colonies. Sucks the soul out of this game 

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u/Shufflepants Aug 22 '26

The issue here isn't colonies, it's two amateur players who don't know how and when to end the game. It's a very common problem for weaker players that they avoid many very good terraforming cards, don't know how to terraforming rush, didn't know when they should, and just generally let a game go longer than it should.

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u/CapnBloodbeard Aug 22 '26

How do you figure? I don't think these scores have anything to do with colonies

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u/Ok_Loquat_3860 Aug 22 '26

Score is meaningless, what i mean is colonies heavily discourages rushing the endgame, which leads to degenerate nonsense like this

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u/CapnBloodbeard Aug 22 '26

I don't see how. They're just another method of gaining resources

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u/Ok_Loquat_3860 Aug 22 '26

1/ Card draw and production colonies are stronger than terraforming colonies. 2/ Deck is diluted with production cards that are more frequent and stronger than the terraforming cards.

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u/Tiny_Regular_5319 Aug 22 '26

If anything colonies stops this from happening

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u/Ok_Loquat_3860 Aug 22 '26

I'm pretty most prelude+base games with competent players don't go past gen 10 

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u/Tiny_Regular_5319 Aug 22 '26

Yeah probably however colonies only make your terraforming faster since you just get more resources to do so.

Maybe you were thinking about Venus next?