Building stop
When all building plots in a district have skyscrapers or businesses on them before the auction, the winner of the auction may choose to either add buildings (also, fewer than allowed as normal) to his building plot in the district (if he has one) or to declare a building stop in this district.
If the winner has no skyscrapers in the district, he must declare a building stop in this district.
When a player declares a building stop, the following occurs:
z He earns 1 victory point for each |
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skyscraper (his and opponents’) in the |
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district. |
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z The other players earn half (rounded |
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down) the victory points they would |
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score if this district were scored |
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normally (option D, 1st action). |
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Each player moves his scoring marker on the |
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Red wins the auction and chooses | |
scoring track to record his victory points | building stop in this district (he could |
earned. | also have chosen to add skyscrapers to |
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Very important: the player who declares a | Red earns 4 VP, Yellow earns 5/2 = 2VP, |
building stop may not decide to score half the | and Blue earns 6/2 = 3 VP. |
victory points for his skyscrapers instead of 1 | fig.10 |
point for all the skyscrapers in the district. |
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... or declares building stop
the player who declared the building stop scores 1 point for each skyscraper in the district
all other players score half (rounded down) the normal points for scoring a district
Next, all skyscrapers and businesses in this district are |
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removed from the board and returned to the box - out of the |
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game.The player then places a building stop marker on the |
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district. For the remainder of the game, nothing more can |
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occur in or to this district. It is as though it was never there. |
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Commissioners will skip over it as they move through the |
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city, no auctions can be held there, and no more skyscrapers |
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or businesses may be built there. | fig.11 |
Note: if the other commissioner is in the district, he remains until he is moved, but no commissioner marker is placed there when he does. Also, if the other commissioner m a rker is in the district, it is returned to City Hall without effect.
Auction in Central Park
The last auction in each set is for building in the area below Central Park.This auction differs somewhat from the district auctions.As with other auctions, the player who triggered the auction begins.This player begins the auction, as the others by selecting a colored card and playing it face up in his play area. He may follow this card with any number of other cards in this color and
any number of black cards for his starting bid.The other players now follow in clockwise order, making their bids by playing cards in their play areas. However, for Central Park, all players must use the same colored cards as the starting player if they want to participate in the auction. If the triggering player does not want to bid, his left neighbor may start the bidding by selecting a color and so on.
As with district auctions, the player winning the auction returns his cards to the stacks and passing players take their bid cards back into their hands.The winning bidder now builds up to the normal maximum (based on the cards he bid) of skyscrapers,
placing them from his supply in the area below Central Park.fig.12 Players with skyscrapers in the area below Central Park will earn victory points only at game end. During the game, there is no scoring in the area below Central Park.Also, a player cannot choose building stop in the area below Central Park.
after the building stop is complete, remove all skyscrapers and businesses from the district and place a building stop marker in the district; this district has no further role to play in the game
in a Central Park auction, all players bid using the same colored bidding cards
skyscrapers in Central Park earn player victory points only at game end (2 - 5 VP each)
Note: during the game, each player m ay build any number of skyscrapers (based on his bids) in the area below Central Pa rk; to keep track of their numbers, skyscrapers of the same color should be grouped together.
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