The Order In Which Cards Are Activated Cannot Be Changed?!?

[Favedave]

In the board game, you can activate brown powers in any order you want, but I cannot figure out a way in the computer version to change the activation order. A search provides no results.

The computer game always activates them from right to left, I think. Sometimes that's terrible, like when I want to produce a certain food and then use another power to use that food, but the food producing power is to the left of the other power -- so I can't do that.

Does anyone know a way to change the brown power activation order in a row? Thanks,

[Rick80]

No! You do mistakes in the boardgame, also in the physical edition you have to activate the cards in order from right to left

[Rick80]

In the rules: "Activate any brown powers on your habitat birds, from right
to left. All powers are optional. End your turn by placing your
action cube on the left side of the “habitat” row."

[AronFJenks]

Originally posted by Favedave:

In the board game, you can activate brown powers in any order you want,

How exactly did you arrive at this (incorrect) conclusion?

[Favedave]

Originally posted by AronFJenks:

Originally posted by Favedave:

In the board game, you can activate brown powers in any order you want,

How exactly did you arrive at this (incorrect) conclusion?

Thank you all for explaining this this. As for how I arrived at the method of activating powers in whichever order we wanted, it was by the ancient method of: The person who first taught us the game said those were the rules!!! And we never bothered to look it up!

Frankly, I kinda like being able to chose the order, so we may keep it as a house rule. I believe it adds a small strategic flair to that phase.

Thanks for splaining!!!

[AronFJenks]

Originally posted by Favedave:

Originally posted by AronFJenks:

I believe it adds a small strategic flair to that phase.

Personally, I would make the opposite interpretation:

There is not much strategy in looking at your brown powers in a habitat and realizing the optimal order to trigger them. If you have a bird like the Sandhill Crane (discard a grain to tuck 2 cards from the deck), then obviously you would want to activate a bird that gives you grain before activating that one. How does it add strategy to allow you to do that regardless of where the birds are placed?

The strategy is placing your birds in the correct order to maximize synergy among your brown powers. Also, allowing any birds to be activated in any order makes some birds more powerful than they were intended to be) The white Stork, for example. Or any of the birds that discard a specific food to do something else.

(Of course, use whichever house rules you prefer when playing home games).
Two other suggestions for happy gaming going forward:

Before stating (in multiple posts) that the game has a bug and asking for it to be fixed, you might want to
1) Check the rule book, or
2) Text the person who taught you the rules and ask that person whether he or she read the rule book.


Happy gaming :)

[Wylie28]

Originally posted by Favedave:

Originally posted by AronFJenks:

How exactly did you arrive at this (incorrect) conclusion?

Thank you all for explaining this this. As for how I arrived at the method of activating powers in whichever order we wanted, it was by the ancient method of: The person who first taught us the game said those were the rules!!! And we never bothered to look it up!

Frankly, I kinda like being able to chose the order, so we may keep it as a house rule. I believe it adds a small strategic flair to that phase.

Thanks for splaining!!!

No it doesn't. It removes the strategy.

[AronFJenks]

Originally posted by Wylie28:

Originally posted by Favedave:

Thank you all for explaining this this. As for how I arrived at the method of activating powers in whichever order we wanted, it was by the ancient method of: The person who first taught us the game said those were the rules!!! And we never bothered to look it up!

Frankly, I kinda like being able to chose the order, so we may keep it as a house rule. I believe it adds a small strategic flair to that phase.

Thanks for splaining!!!

No it doesn't. It removes the strategy.

This entire thread is just a complete fail.

As Wylie and I noted, this would not add strategy, to would kill the strategy.

Your game, your house rules, obviously (The OP, I mean), but that house rule completely changes the game. You're not really playing Wingspan at that point.