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1) I like simultaneous action selection as opposed to having to wait for each other player in sequence to decide if they should spend a card. Though, now that I write this, planning everything in one go is likely more inducing of analysis paralysis and thus time-consuming than having players doing it in turn order. So maybe the *time* argument is bad. Regardless, I like simultaneous action selection because of...

2) ...the mind games of trying to predict what or how far the other players are moving phase markers so that I can plan what I should move. This adds strategy to an otherwise quite chaotic game.

But as long as you're having fun with the game I'm happy and you should house rule any way works best for you. Thanks for the comment! It made me at least stop and consider if the Stop cards are still carrying their weight.

@KaoruHare The Stop cards are only needed if you are worried about your opponents changing how many cards they'd spend to move phases when they see how many cards the other players are spending. Currently doing so would be cheating.

Of course, if you house rule to change it there are ways to remove the Stop cards while still having the rules be robust (though different). Either by spending one card at a time (or pass) until everyone around the table have passed (or maybe everyone have passed in a row). Or by giving the last player (as decided by the first player marker) anadvantage by having each player in order spend all the cards they want *after* seeing what the players before them have moved.

While I'm always a fan of getting rid of components, since it makes games cheaper to print, ie easier to get published, the Stop cards are likely to stay for now, for two reasons.

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I absolutely love this game! My boyfriend and I play it pretty often because it's one of his favorites. I think the only thing we don't really touch is the stop cards. We pretty much just wild out with the phase order movement. Otherwise, this game is great and I love introducing new people to it.

Just fonud this game recently. Great balance and replayability. Very fun.

More minor fixes since the last update had accidentally reverted some cards to an older version. Thanks for the award-logos to those who have given them, much appreciated! Also thanks to everyone who's added Mad Science to your collections and/or favorites!

Fixed bug where some cards got a black black while seen in a player's hand.

Small update tweaking the two scheme cards that attack an opponent's research cards, making them less likely to completely destroy a player's labs.

Updated the game with Hench-Droids. Additional setup rule: Each player starts with a Hench-Droids card in play!

Jimbo and Blad Skydancer: Oh, so sorry! Ran out of space at Dropbox and the rules were purged in an attempt to being able to keep using it for another game project. Didn't think that they were linked from here as well. The rules can now be found at fubargames DOT se SLASH madsciencerules.pdf

I also took the time to add in some comments in yellow about what's different when playing on Tabletop Simulator as opposed to playing the game with my real life prototype.

The rules need to be reuploaded.

Rules no longer exist :( 404

Now with the expansion pack "Maniacal Laughter" to make even more weird plots to rule the Earth!

Great game, very entertaining! :D

THANKS!

amrojjeh: Thanks for the heads up, must have messed up in the latest update and somehow cleared the rules field. Link to pdf rules now in the rules-section and in the notepad. Sorry about that.

it doesnt say the rules

ITS RLY GOOD

Working on a big update. New card frame and going to test some changed rules. Of the base set I've just rendered a little over half the cards. Can't say exactly when I can start testing again, but should be in a few days. What I can say is that after these changes I will need a lot of testing...

yess yess, I remember my Giant right hand kitten of doom from outer space.

10/10 it was okey ~ ign

joined a game and we were greeted by the author, played the game and lost to a giant right hand kitten of doom from outerspace.
also my pink fluffy dinosaur died real fast

~9/10 ign -best mod of the year award-
really cool guy and already a fun game for a work in progress

fun game can take a long time though XD

FurbyFubar thanks for the help. unfortuneatly i am unable to run TTS at high res but the links are a god send. i love the look of this game and look forward to playing it.

I just played my first round and I must say this game is good and has big chances.

The poker table would give much less space for people to play their cards compared to the table I'm currently using.

why not just use the poker table instead?

Yeah, looks like either custom boards have gotten better since I first tried them or I didn't get their full functionality when I first tried them out. Also, without a custom table the board gets edges, meaning the die won't keep rolling off. Will have to re-size a bunch of things to make this fit though since the large rectangle table is not the same size as the custom rectangle...

Sorry, no real luck. but i got some sujections that might help.

1. remove all the rules and Put it on the tablet item, you can actually have it so the players can (on loading the game) agree to go to the website. but it will reduce the need for the rule cards.

2. instead of loading a custom table, just croped the game board, and upload it as a custom board. this will use up a LOT less space and reduce the errors.

Other then those, my friend still got crashed out due to the 88 cards for some reason.

Thock and William.G: I just updated the workshop file, hopefully to fix both your problems.

The rules are now a bit less high resolution meaning they will probably load, but the text is harder to read. Since this is annoying I've also put them on dropbox at {tinyurl DOT com SLASH madsciencerules} and added the link to the notepad.

Some of the game cards in the deck were also higher resolution than I'd intended, so all card files are now at the same (lower) resolution.

Also, since the latest update to Tabletop Simulator added a bug where custom tables won't load for people entering the room after the table was loaded, I've added the link to the custom table in the notepad so that the host can reload it without reloading the whole mod (and resetting the game).

Thock, you're the second person I hear that from. Might be that the images are too high rez. Try starting TTS to a higher quality? Otherwise you have the rules here for the time being until I can put up a pdf somewhere. http://i.imgur.com/Mx0JyCV.jpg and http://i.imgur.com/k1J6ffD.jpg

Small but big issue. Rules are not loading :(

well from what we can tell it looks like its the 88 deck that is causeing him to crash.

William.G would love to try to help but have no idea what could be causing it. If he'd be willing to test out entering and crashing a few times, try removing one thing at a time that could be causing it? Like delete the rules, see if it loads for him. If not, delete the tokens, and so on...

The playtesters I've had have not had crash issues that I've noticed. (But then again, if someone enters the room and crashes to desktop it would probably look very much looking like someone entering and just exiting.)

for some reason, my friends copy of Tabletop crashes when he trys to enter a room with this game.

Sharks with lasers and Alien Ninjas from the future, how can you not have fun with this.

Good Game :) !

10/10 would play again.

Awesome game wth lots of variety. No two games would play out the same. The balancing is there and the creator has really set out an immersive game for the whole family. Gather some friends and join up with FurbyFubar for a good time. I would love to see some expansions, including different alien races, planets, or even evil mutated unicorns with jet packs. Great Job and Great Mod!

Super fun to play in groups of 3 and +, silly names and all :3

One of the most creative and well-balanced games I've played. It's a lot to take in at first, however once the game gets going it's a neck-and-neck race to raise your dominion, thwart your 'friends' and rule the world! (more importantly: nab those t-shirts!)
Wacky fun!

Game is fun, the theme is neat, had a playthrough with the creator and a group, creator was very friendly and it was an enjoyable playthrough.

This game is very fun (unless you ninjas get murdered by pirates) and I was lucky enough to be a playtester! 10/10

I won by kidnapping the statue of liberty and assaulting the world with my robotic squid army. 10/10