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Rules and FAQ



Introduction



Andomeda's Gates is a role playing game that takes place in a distant galaxy where 3 corporations struggle to gain control of planets to exploit their resources. Members can join one corporation and start building it's supremacy. Each build rewards players with credits and their corporation with resources. Challenges will be held to earn even more rewards, and even prizes.


Getting started

  • Create your character, choose a corporation and a job .It's preferable that your character has the same name as you do on EB, but it's not mandatory.
  • A customized sig-fig is fine, but all your other minifigs and builds should be purist.
  • Make a picture of your character (100 pixels by 100 pixels) or choose one of the generic avatars provided in your corporation thread.
  • Introduce yourself in the Introduction and Discussion topic. A staff member will add your details to the Players and Planet index shortly, but you can start building right away.


Where to Post What


  • All your builds should be posted in a new thread in this subforum. there is no need for any prefix tags for freebuilds but challenge builds will need one,
  • This Rules and FAQ topic contains the rules that apply to every builds.
  • Players should introduce characters in the Introduction and Discussion topic, and staff will add them to the Players and Planets index. All posts in the Introduction and Discussion topic should be Out of Character.
  • The three corporations' topics are used to discuss and roleplay In Character with your teammates. Announce your builds in your faction topic.
  • Challenges will be announced in their own topics, and you will be able to use those topics to ask questions about and discuss the specific challenge.


Building for your corporation



This is how you make your character progress. You can build anything in link with your corporation's activities:
  • Mining, harvesting resources,
  • Constructing offensive or defensive building or vehicle,
  • Constructing civilian or research buildings,
  • Conducting spying acts on other corporation,
  • Conducting piracy acts against other corporation,
  • Dealing with local flora and/or fauna
  • ...


Your entry must be located on a planet of the system no farther away than one travel from your corporation's domination area. You cannot build on the home planet of other corporations. Your build must specify on which planet it takes place.
Each planet has it's own environnement and provide one of the three resources, so check the Players and Planets Index or the Dynamic Galaxy Map for more informations.
You must also choose one or more tags from the list below that describe your build:

  • Military
  • Civil
  • Building
  • Vehicle
  • Spaceship / Airplane / Submarine
  • Land/Water vehicle
  • Spying,
  • Piracy
  • Exploration
  • Science


Updated Tagging Rules are in the spoiler tags are after the link:

The judges have written some clarification of the rules for build tagging. For each tag we've laid out specifically which jobs, equipment and techs it will give you a bonus for. If you do not correctly include the tag exactly as it is below, you won't get the bonus.



Rules for tags:

At the very start of your post, please post the location and tags for your build, exactly like this example:

Location: E01
Tags: Military, Vehicle, Airplane

Please don't include any tags that aren't on the list below. That includes things like 'piloting', 'research' or 'ground vehicle'. In the past the judges have been kind and translated these to the correct tags (which would be Spaceship, Science, and Land Vehicle in this case), but they may not in future. It only takes a minute to check this list for the correct tags, so please do so or you risk losing out on bonuses. In the actual post's tags (i.e. the ones that show up underneath the post title on the main forum page) you can put whatever you like.

When deciding whether a tag should count, the judges will consider how well it fits the descriptions below, how much effort went into depicting it, and how big a part it plays in your build.
Build something military, like a battle scene, a fortified building or a vehicle with weapons.
Build something non-military to do with your corporation's civilisation, like a building or park.
Build a building. Interiors and spaceship interiors can also count as buildings as long as they have at least one wall. This activates the Engineer job.
Build any vehicle. If either or both of the two tags below apply, so does this one. However, you must include it to activate its tech bonuses, eg. tagging your build with just Submarine will not activate Awesomnium alloy tech.
Build a spaceship, airplane or submarine.
Build a vehicle that goes on the surface of land or water. Hovercraft/skimmers and underground tunneling vehicles also belong in this category.
Your build must show your character gathering information about another faction, hacking their computers, or sabotaging their equipment.
Your build must show your character stealing objects or resources from another faction.
Your build must show your character encountering flora, fauna or an alien first encounter.
Your build must show your character conducting experiments or research.
  • Military (Activates Spoil of war tech, Battlefield research tech with Building)
  • Civil (Activates Awesomnium foundry tech with Building)
  • Building (Activates Engineer job, Battlefield research tech with Military, Awesomnium foundry tech with Civil)
  • Vehicle (Activates Awesomnium alloy tech, Structural reinforcement tech)
  • Spaceship or Airplane or Submarine (Activates Pilot job, Spaceship mastery tech)
  • Land Vehicle or Water vehicle (Activates Driver job, Ground tactics tech)
  • Spying (Activates Special Force job, Spying outfit equipment, Stealth mode equipment, Spying school tech)
  • Piracy (Activates Special Force job, Black Pearl equipment, Piracy tech)
  • Exploration (Activates Explorer job, Speaking violet backpack equipment, Naturalist's training tech)
  • Science (Activates Scientist job)



Your build will be judged and scored on a scale from 1 to 7 (1 being a minifig on a plate, and 6 being a great build... 7 is for awesome builds). This score will determine what you and your corporation will earn. For example, if your build on a planet rewarding awesomnium.pngAwesomnium is scored 3, you will gain:

  • 30credits.png Credits for you,
  • 30awesomnium.png Awesomnium for your corporation,
  • 3domination.png Domination points for your corporation on this planet.


You can submit only one build per week, from Monday to Sunday (Monday 10:00UTC/GMT). The judge will post the scores as soon as they are available, but no later than Wednesday.


Building style and colors



There is no constraint on building style, but you should respect the colors of your corporation:

For Octan Corp, the primary color is white, with red and green accents.
For Kawashita Group, the primary color is dark bluish grey, with red and dark red accents.
For M.A.N.T.I.S., the primary color is black, with green and lime green accents.

Bluish grey, dark bluish grey and black can be freely used for greebles and details.


Gaining control of planets


When a corporation has 30 more domination.png Domination points on a planet than the two other corporation, it gains control over the planet and receive a reward defined for each planet. Controlled areas can be viewed on the Dynamic Galaxy Map.


Buildings for the Alien's Civilizations


In addition to building for their corporation, players can also build for the alien's civilizations. Alien builds must represent the point of view of an alien, not your corporation character (if you have any).
Every planets are open for alien builds without restrictions, except for the 3 home planets. Your build must specify on which planet it takes place. If your build depict an encounter with one of the corporations, it must be a corporation that has at least one domination.png Domination point on the planet.
Your build will be judged and scored on a scale from 1 to 7. This score will determine what you will earn and what the corporations will loose. For example, if your build is scored 3, you will gain 30credits.png Credits, and all the corporations will loose 3 domination.png Domination points on the planet.

Remember you can submit only one build per week.


Fleet system


The Corporation Fleets:
  • Each corporation have a fleet on the map, starting at the home planets.
  • Each week the CEO (or one designated officer) can move the fleet to an adjacent planet.
  • The CEO or designated officer, must inform AG staff of the movement at latest Monday 9 AM GMT.
  • If no move was announced by then, the fleet stays at the planet it was the week before.
  • The move will occur after the weekly builds are judged.
  • Only "buildable" planets can be protected by the fleet (Controlled planets and adjacents).
  • A fleet cannot move from a non-friendly planet to another non-friendly planet
  • There can be multiple fleets at a single planet.


Alien fleets

  • 3 alien fleets are be on the map, starting at C06, F04 and F08.
  • Each week, the alien fleets will move randomly to an adjacent planet or stay on the same planet.


Rewards and restrictions:

  • An alien build on a planet where an alien fleet is present will cause a loss of -2 domination points for the corporations.
  • Corporations can't build on a planet where an alien fleet is present, unless their own fleet is also present.
  • Building on a planet with your own fleet on it grants a bonus of +1 domination point.
  • Other corporations cannot build on a protected planet, unless their own fleet is also present.
  • When the corporation fleet is at the same planet as the alien fleet, both benefits are reduced by 1.


Homeworld Bonus

Building at the home world now gives a 100% resource bonus!

This double the amount of awesomnium you get for your score but do not effect items or tech bonuses. Hopefully we will see more builds on our home worlds now as they have been a bit ignored for tactical reasons so far.

Building in challenges



From time to time, challenges will be held. During a challenge, players will compete with each-other to gain reward for themselves, their corporation or both by completing one or more objective. Each challenge's specific rules will be posted in their own thread, explaining what to build, and how to enter.
  • All building rules apply as for any build outside challenges.
  • You will be given an objective in the challenge, and you must build your character attempting to complete that objective. Further details will be given in the episode topic itself. (Including any size limitations or guidelines for what the build should look like.)
  • All your entries are considered Works In Progress until the deadline. You may ask for critiques from other members and update your entry up until that time.
  • Your build will be scored from 1 to 10
  • Players and corporations will receive credits and resources in the same maner as any other build.
  • Each challenge's rules define how the winning corporation is chosen and what prize(s) will be awarded.
  • There is no bonuses from corporations' technologies or players' jobs and equipments during challenges.


Read carrefully the challenge's rules as they may differ from the general rules above.


Governance of the corporations



Each corporation is led by a CEO. He/she can take decisions for the corporation, like trading resources with other corporations or researching new technologies.
The CEO of a corporation is the player that has earned the most credits.pngCredits.
AG's staff will follow whatever decision he takes and post in it's corporation discussion thread.


Jobs


When joining a corporation, a player will have to choose a job in the list:
  • Pilot - Specialists of flying machines, pilots are at ease both in atmosphere and in space. (Build a spacecrafts or aircrafts)
  • Driver - Moving on planet surfaces require skillfull drivers. (Build a land vehicles)
  • Explorer - Making the first steps on unknown planets, explorers are able to deal with flora, fauna or inhabitant of all kinds. (Build must feature flora, fauna, or an alien first encounter)
  • Engineer - Able to build anything with limited resources, engineers are vital to space exploration. (Build buildings or structures)
  • Scientist - Experimenting or testing prototypes is the daily routine of scientists. (Build experiments or researches)
  • Special force - When a dirty job needs to be done, call the special forces. (Build piracy or spying actions)


A player's job doesn't limit what he can build, but it will grant him a bonus of 3 credits.png Credits when his/her build meets its job's requirements. A pilot can build a land vehicle, he'll just not get its job bonus.


Using credits and resources



Each player can use its credits.pngCredits to buy Personal Skills for himself. These Personal Skills offer various bonuses when a player post a build (outside of challenges).

A corporation can use its resources to advance in a Technology Tree. Some of the technologies will give bonuses to all that corporation's members.
See the Tech tree and Personal Skills topic for more informations. To research a technology, the CEO of a corporation has to post which technology he wants to research in it's corporation discussion thread, and one of the corporation's members has to do a build representing that technology, the technology will be considered learnt when the build is posted. The build isn't considered as the builder's weekly build, won't be scored, and won't reward the builder with credits or resources.
To progress in the tech tree, a corporation must start at one (or more) of the three starting technologies at the center of the tree. Then it can research any technology linked to a known technology, or one of the starting technology. The links on the tech tree are only links, not requirements.


Trading


Trading of credits between players of any corporation is allowed. The player that give the credits has to post the amount and the name of the receiving player in it's corporation discussion thread.

Trading of resources between corporation is allowed. The CEO of the giving corporation has to post the amount and the name of the receiving corporation in it's corporation discussion thread.


Members to know


Evil mastermind:
Bob De Quatre

Staff helpers:
Lady K
Narbillu
Big Sal

Thanks to everyone who participated in the development of the game, without you it wouldn't be here: Si-MOCs, Vampyre78, mccoyed, Eurobricks Fellows, and everyone who will recognize himself.

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FAQ



General

  • Q: Isn't this a rip-off of Shadow over Nar Eurbrikka, which is a rip-off of Guilds of Historica?
    A: Well... No... Absolutely not :innocent: .


Character

  • Q: Yellow or flesh minifigs' head?
    A: It's a matter of personal preference. You can use whichever you like.
  • Q: Does my sig fig have to appear in all my builds?
    A: Your build must be related to your character's roleplaying progression. There might be some situations where it doesn't make sense for your sigfig to physically appear, such as in a miniature, or communicating with other minifigs over hologram or comlink, etc., but it must be clear that your character has some part in the action taking place in the build.
  • Q: I choose pilot as a job, do I have to always build spaceships?
    A: No, you can build whatever you want, but if you build a spaceship, you'll earn bonus credits, and if you build something else you won't earn the bonus.
  • Q: How can I get a shiny signature picture to show everyone I'm part of the game?
    A: Look for your character in the Planets and Players index, there is a "Sigfig" link that will open your automatically generated signature picture. Copy the link to that picture, go to your profile page, edit your signature and add the signature picture using the "Image" button.


Builds

  • Q: Can I post a digital MOC?
    A: Digital MOCs are allowed, but specific challenge could says otherwise. You'll have to check rules of each challenges. in any case, digital MOCs should be buildable with real bricks. No floating pieces, no unavailable combination of parts and colors.
  • Q: What is considered a piracy act?
    A: A build can be considered a piracy act if it depicts your sigfig stealing resources or equipements from any other corporation.
  • Q: What is considered a spying act?
    A: A build can be considered a spying act if it depicts your sigfig gathering intels, hacking computers or sabotaging any other corporation equipement.
  • Q: What is considered an exploration?
    A: A build can be considered an exploration if it depicts your sigfig exploring an environment, dealing with plants or animals, or making contact with alien races. Agressive builds (ie: military builds) won't be considered as explorations.
  • Q: On which planets can I build?
    A: You can build on any planet controlled by your corporation and the planets linked to these. If you want to build for the Alien civilizations, then every planets are available.


Challenges

  • Q: Do I have to participate in every challenge?
    A: No. We know everyone has other responsibilities and commitments as well, both on and off of EB.

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There is no need for prefic tag for your freebuilds, just post them in a new thread in this forum. Don't forget to mention at the start of your post on which planet it takes place.

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Modified the "Building for your corporation" section:

You must also choose tag(s) from the list below that describe your build:
  • Military
  • Civil
  • Building
  • Vehicle
  • Spaceship / Airplane
  • Land/Water vehicle
  • Spying,
  • Piracy
  • Exploration
  • Science

These tags will help judges determine if jobs' bonuses should be awarded. When you post your build, staff members may ask you to adjust your tags choice.

Please update your builds to have on top:

Location: Sector - Planet

Tags: List of tags

Thanks :classic:

Edited by Bob De Quatre

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About Mantis color scheme:

Which type of green is just green on brickset? Dark green? Medium green?

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About Mantis color scheme:

Which type of green is just green on brickset? Dark green? Medium green?

Every type of green is allowed.

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Hey bob, i can't view the Dynamic Map (for some reason) is there

any other way i can tell what planets are near Farmolis?

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Why can't you view the map? It doesn't show or is it a tooltip problem?

I'm not sure,

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In regards to the "memory implant" upgrade, when you learn your second job, can you get double credit for a MOC that shows both jobs being used?

For example, if a pilot learns the explorer job as a second skill and builds a space ship to explore an asteroid belt, do they get 6 gold instead of the usual 3?

Just a question for consideration, thanks!

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Can we get the weekly deadline added to the OP?

I'll edit the first post.

I'm not sure,

What are you not sure? When you go here, do you see the planets? What happens when you put your cursor over the mouse?

In regards to the "memory implant" upgrade, when you learn your second job, can you get double credit for a MOC that shows both jobs being used?

For example, if a pilot learns the explorer job as a second skill and builds a space ship to explore an asteroid belt, do they get 6 gold instead of the usual 3?

Just a question for consideration, thanks!

That's correct.

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I have seen a lot of questions about job bonuses and I don't understand the big deel. It's just 3 credits extra for some of your builds, right?

Why would anyone actualy buy "Memory implant" when they could, for less then a third of the price, buy the "Gold Tooth" and get 10 credits extra for every build and challenges too unless I'm mistaken. Is it something else about the job classas or do people just think it's cool with two jobs?

Edited by EpsilonEta

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I'll edit the first post.

What are you not sure? When you go here, do you see the planets? What happens when you put your cursor over the mouse?

That's correct.

it's some Norton, uncategorized website thing. Not entirely sure,

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I think this has been answered but I don't remember for sure but if we wanted to make a freebuild, whether it's for our sig-fig or aliens, would we post it in the Andromeda's Gates section or the Sci-Fi section?

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Is there any high res pictures of the planets or is it just the thumbnails? I was thinking of making a background for a spaceship.

Edited by EpsilonEta

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it's some Norton, uncategorized website thing. Not entirely sure,

I'm not a Norton expert, far from it, so I don't really know how to help you :sceptic:

I think this has been answered but I don't remember for sure but if we wanted to make a freebuild, whether it's for our sig-fig or aliens, would we post it in the Andromeda's Gates section or the Sci-Fi section?

Freebuilds are the weekly builds, that are to be posted here in the AG subforum.

Is there any high res pictures of the planets or is it just the thumbnails? I was thinking of making a background for a spaceship.

I didn't keep the high res pictures of the planets... I should have... But they all come from somewhere on deviantart.com, so with some luck you might find them :wink: (Some have copyrights, so give credits if necessary)

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Freebuilds are the weekly builds, that are to be posted here in the AG subforum.

Okay, and if I do a freebuild, does that mean I wouldn't be able to make a domination build or an alien build for the week?

Edited by Goliath

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Okay, and if I do a freebuild, does that mean I wouldn't be able to make a domination build or an alien build for the week?

narbilu said this about "freebuilds":

We can post one build per week, either for the corp or an alien build. Except when you post a Challenge build, that doesn't count as a weekly build.

Basically, one build a week, which will be scored. If you want to place a freebuild, do as many as you want, as long as you make it clear that it is a freebuild and it doesn't need judging.

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I'm not a Norton expert, far from it, so I don't really know how to help you :sceptic:

Freebuilds are the weekly builds, that are to be posted here in the AG subforum.

I didn't keep the high res pictures of the planets... I should have... But they all come from somewhere on deviantart.com, so with some luck you might find them :wink: (Some have copyrights, so give credits if necessary)

Well, ok. But is there any way of knowing which planets are beside which? Like, a code or something?

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Well, ok. But is there any way of knowing which planets are beside which? Like, a code or something?

http://oi60.tinypic.com/13yjc6x.jpg

The pink lines indicate interplanetary connectivity.

Details on each planet can be found here:

http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=98050

It's basically a grid put onto a hexagonal map, with A0l being top left (not a planet) and I11 (again, not a planet) on the bottom right.

~Insectoid Aristocrat

Edited by Dannylonglegs

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(A noobish question which there is probably an answer to somewhere which I have not found)

Is the insignia for Kawashita Group taken from some official Lego print from some theme?

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(A noobish question which there is probably an answer to somewhere which I have not found)

Is the insignia for Kawashita Group taken from some official Lego print from some theme?

Nope, I took it somewhere on the web and modified it.

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