Sericulture Expansion (🐛🧵) first spoiled Dividends N
, which keywords the “Neo-Project” Agendas’ “over-advanceability” mechanic:
Dividends N (When you score this agenda, place N agenda counter(s) on it for each excess advancement counter.)
Sericulture can be:
- a blank
3/2
, or a4/2
withWhen your discard phase ends, you may place 2 advancement counters on 1 installed card. Use this ability only once.
, or so on. - Economically, this converts the one excess advancement (that you invested) into two advancements (in dividend), saving
1[$], [click]
(CF. Seamless Launch.) - Tactically, the timing is much more restricted: you must pass the turn while telegraphing an agenda (or baiting an ambush). But it can also be more flexible: if you have a “counter to spare” after never-advancing Sericulture, then you've “stored that counter” for later (especially if it's a clickless-counter, such as from a Cohort Guidance Program or La Costa Grid).
For example, it:
- lets you “IAA” a
5/3
while still defending it with a Lockdown (like Hyoubu Precog Manifold or NAPD Cordon). Likewise, IAA’ing a Fujii Asset Retrieval while still “defending” it with burn (like Bring Them Home). - lets you “IAAA” another
3/2
(to “never-score” it out, for Issuaq?). - can double-advance a Charlotte Caçador (tho which can still only singly-“unadvance” each turn).
Design:
- It implicitly has a once-per-turn limit (being a phase-based trigger). Which NSG's
hosted agenda counter: …
agendas all do (unlike FFG's). - An exchange-rate of “one now, two later” is the clearest “investment dividend” of the four.
- The
(You cannot score that card this turn.)
reminder-text also teaches newer players that you can score agendas only before the discard-phase.
The Dividend Agendas cycle:
- 🟣 Project Ingatan (“neo–Project Vitruvius”)
- 🔴 Sericulture Expansion
- 🟡 Embedded Reporting
- 🟢 Off the Books (“neo–Project Atlas”)
Flavor:
- Sericulture means silk(worm)-farming (like how horticulture means plant-farming). In Latin, silk is "sericum".
- You're investing
1 advancement counter
now for2 advancement counter
–dividend later (a 200% RoI).
@P.T.d.l.R. My bad! (I'd written this over on Reddit when I was expecting a Project Beale near-print.) Edited the review.
— D4v1d-Gr43b3r
Actually, looking at Embedded Reporting Dividends 2 means placing two agenda counters per excess advancement token, not the other way around.
— P. T. d. l. R.