Sidereal Confluence - Shut Up & Sit Down Review 

It's a spot on description. The problem that I have with a lot of the "Euro" - "worker placement" games is that you don't actually do any interacting with the other players. This one introduces it and.... it somehow manages to make the genre *less* fun. Which is quite an achievement!

@@tigerpjm Well this game isn't exactly a worker placement game, more of an economy simulator even. On top of that, this review is a bit outdated now that there's a new edition which looks absolutely stunning, with the quality that it properly deserves.

Oh good, thought I needed a hearing test for a bit there.

Well I read the description of this game over at bgg, only made it a couple sentences and promptly slipped into a coma. "is a singularly unique trading and negotiation game for 4-9 players. Over the course of the game, each race must trade and negotiate with the rest to acquire the resource cubes necessary to fund their economy and allow it to produce goods for the next turn. " So for me this game is a purgatory.

It's real time, so the turns aren't longer with more players. Also, at Mark, it's what videogamers often think about boardgames in general.

BGG will have a 50-player variant posted tomorrow. ;)

And ... I play the card that reverse the order of the round after me ...

2 years later but YES EXACTLY MY THOUGHT!

@@XOB89 any jdea what he was playing?

@@alejandrorivas4585 Sorry, not a damn clue

@@alejandrorivas4585 I think he was just riffing. The opening few bars were (intentional or otherwise) pure In the Air Tonight.

you should check out table top simulator ;)

@jfagiag faeiea I know it's only been one week, but did you learn what google does yet?

Gamblers chest just came out. Huzaaa

You nailed it!

Good game design with cheap packaging and components is the standard for WizKids" board game line, must not be enough left in the production budget after making their flagship miniatures.

Mika Björklund really? I better check mine then.. it is standing in the corner atm..

You should. The tray should be pretty evenly packed, with no big gaps between the cards (=only space, where the dividers are). In my case at least it was pretty easy to see something was missing. Also, if there's something missing and you bought it from a store (not online), I'd contact the store and let them handle it. I've only heard bad bad things about the Wizkids replacement system.

@@mikabjorklund3678 Never had problems with it... I guess you are unlucky.

@@rpgisaboutlife4396 Most people probably don't have any problems. But if there are problems it was stupidly difficult to order replacement parts. I eventually got the missing cards by the way... Except I didn't because they were FOR THE WRONG GAME. They sent me cards for Kemet. Luckily the local store I bought the game from just sent me a new game at that point. It's been a few years, so hopefully it's better now. I wouldn't know.

@@mikabjorklund3678 You should have said, in a prompt reply, you bought Kemet and missed some parts - you'd now have a complete game of Kemet :)

What does NPI stand for?

Ok,...didn't know that site before. Are they good? Edit: hahaha found it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-itlmiZL9Fs8.html

ETYMOLOGY TIME "Sidereal" is a direct English conversion of the latin word "Sidereus" which is the adjective form of the root word "Sidus, Sideris", whose primary meaning is "Star".

I also read it as side reel and thought they were trolling everyone with their pronunciation. It was very distracting. Sidereal must be one of the worst spelt words in English, and that is saying a lot.

Came here to say this. Paul's drum solo was ON POINT!

He learned drums as a kid - he mentioned it on his recent interview with Heavy Cardboard.

only just now?

This is actually typical in real life. I remember reading about how this kind of behavior naturally arises if you're in a situation where you expect to have repeated dealings with the same individuals. The time when you get in trouble is when you're going to do a single trade and never see the other party again -- thus, for example, the problem with every criminal ransom demand ever.

I kept waiting assuming they were mispronouncing it on purpose... but, uh, yeah. I guess it is not 'side reel'

Its side reel, how would you ever know to say that as sid e airial confluence...

Its pronounced as sai deh ree all

Some friends of mine and I get together for game weekends a few times a year. This was busted out at halloween. I loved it. It was busted out at New Years. I...missed that game of it. I was doing something else at the time it was forming. This weekend there's a housewarming party. I WILL FIND TIME TO PLAY THIS GAME AGAIN. And normally I *hate* negotiation games, because there's that one guy dominating, and everyone's going for the same things in the same way. But here everyone's so different. Even in that one game multiple times I'd trade with someone and come away "aha, I really ripped him off on that one...wait, why is he smiling. He thinks he ripped me off?" And you know what, we were both right. Cubes are worth what you can do with them, and I felt this game did that better than any negotiation game I've played before.

Shut Up and Sit Down definitely treats their board game components more cavalierly than I do. Then again, they have WAY more games than I do, and may even be getting complimentary copies, so I guess it makes sense.

I second this