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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:
He earns 1 victory point for each
skyscraper (his and opponents') in the
district.
The other players earn half (rounded
down) the victory points they would
score if this district were scored
normally (option D, 1st action).
Each player moves his scoring marker on the
scoring track to record his victory points
earned.
Very important: the player who declares a
building stop may not decide to score half the
victory points for his skyscrapers instead of 1
point for all the skyscrapers in the district.
Next, all skyscrapers and businesses in this district are
removed from the board and returned to the box - out of the
game.The player then places a building stop marker on the
district. For the remainder of the game, nothing more can
occur in or to this district. It is as though it was never there.
Commissioners will skip over it as they move through the
city, no auctions can be held there, and no more skyscrapers
or businesses may be built there.
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.
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.
Red wins the auction and chooses
building stop in this district (he could
also have chosen to add skyscrapers to
his building plot, but did not).
Red earns 4 VP, Yellow earns 5/2 = 2 VP ,
and Blue earns 6/2 = 3 VP.
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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
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) i n
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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