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[quote name="FABIO"][quote][quote]<b>Cosmic Encounters</b> [/quote] Played this a lot in highschool too (Mayfair edition, I'm not sure which you are playing). I don't know if we were really that stupid or just didn't know any better. It's not terrible, but the game is radically unbalanced and the powers don't always work very well together. The weird expanions were insane too, Lucre and the moons just unbalanced things more. I really think this game is a design which was great once but has aged poorly. At least it is fast... in that hour of time, however, I could play Knizia's Lord of the Rings or Modern Art or Settlers or half a game of 1825 or 2 games of chess, etc. Doesn't seem like a good investment. [/quote] Oh shit I forgot about the expansion. We never used Lucre since the longtimer who owned it said it sucked and we took his word for it. But fuck those goddamn moons. Those were a huge random factor that fucked everything up. Strategy? Fuck it. Some asshat just sealed the game instantly with a moon.[/quote]