Log-13-FEB-2010.txt
version 0.16

started with:
-Only penalized when the DOOM track advances.
-SO, when the DOOM track advances, whichever BROWN LEAVES are in play this turn all have penalties. That is, BROWN LEAVES only incur penalties when the DOOM track advances. At other times, there is no penalty yet. It's just a non-resource card when you draw. 

0-3, 2 leaves
4-6, 3 leaves
7-9, 4 leaves.

Orange leaves are ALWAYS lose 1 unit.
Grey leaves are ALWAYS lose 1 resource cards.
next game, 2 orange, 6 grey.

Grey leaf penalties now are removed from the game. MIGHT NEED TO ADD MORE CARDS! will test this.
HIVE EXPANSIONS do not remove cards from the game. 
STORED RESOURCES DO remove from the game.

losing 1 unit means, 2 DRONES or 1 WORKER/GATHERER.

start with 2 workers
12 cards of each color (red, blue, green, yellow)
6 grey leaves (-1 resource card)
2 orange leaves (-1 unit)

-jay says a future building could be to upgraydd gatherer to D4-1, etc.

-John suggested that you HAVE to flip at least ONE GATHER token if you bring it back.
-we decided not to do this. However, jay ran into a situation where he had one brown leaf flipped, so he didn't chance flipping anything.
-however, even if we do implement this rule, the workaround will just be not bringing the GATHER token back to base.
-so, if we do say you have to flip ONE, we need a consequence for having a GATHER resource outside of the colony.
-this could be related to the future CONFLICT system.


-John cashed in 9 GATHER tokens. pretty obscene. drew 18 cards (2 on DOOM TRACK).
drew 4 grey and 2 orange. 

-Suggestion to make each gather token worth 1 card.

-realization that: if you only have 3 hexes each for the hive, you will not be able to ever draw 4 brown leaves. This is another reason to force GATHERing ONE GATHER token per turn.

-john has a crazy idea.

what is the gather tokens are like food?
meaning, every turn you have to discard X number (based on Hive size and Number of ants)
and using a GATHER token provides this foodsource. So, when you flip it, the reverse side is ANT FOOD. and you get to draw ONE CARD.

each turn, you pay ant food on your upkeep. If you don't have enough, you lose an ant, or it gets sick or it can't move. etc.

this means, if you go an extended time without flipping a GATHER token, your ants will DIE

we won't do this next loop since we first want to test the GATHER TOKEN = ONE RESOURCE idea.

Game ended in DEATH FOR ALL after we lost all the resource cards and nothing but brown leaves left

jay had 7 hexes. john had 4

jay invaded john's territory like a jerk.

game is broken, but that's only because the ants live in a utopia.

FOR NEXT LOOP:
introduce conflict
GATHER TOKENS = 1 resource.