You and your family have come to Nevada City to set up a farm and help the city grow. Can you outperform the other homesteaders?
Each player in Nevada City starts the game with a family - mother, father, daughter and son - and a homestead mat where you can set up farms, fence livestock and develop silver mines. You start the game with a mine, a farm, and a ranch, along with some money and an assortment of resources. The city consists of a few buildings and other buildings will become available for construction over the years, with the game lasting four years.
A year lasts a number of turns until all players have used all their characters and hired workers. During a turn, a player chooses one of their characters and performs actions until all of that character's actions are used up; a character cannot perform the same action during a turn. A character can purchase new real estate from Town Hall, start working on his mine, farm or ranch, claim a building, construct a building, use an existing building, reserve a contract with terms for improving the town, or work to fulfill the contract. Each character and worker has a different set of skills that can boost the actions they take, such as finding extra silver in a mine or bringing wood to a construction site.
You earn victory points (VPs) for constructing buildings and receive rewards from those buildings when other players use them. You also earn VPs for completing contracts, with those contracts having different values depending on which buildings are present at the time. Each player receives a private objective card at the start of the game, and all players score points for these objective cards based on how well they perform against other players, so pay close attention to their choices.
Various events take place every year, allowing players to suffer from drought or reap the benefits of fertile land, among other things. At the end of a year, the workers leave unless they get married.
Nevada City also features advanced rules that add additional buildings and events to the game, a sort of gambling sub-game, a more volatile production market to make life in the West less predictable, and additional sons and daughters. Moreover, at the end of a year the unhired workers become noisy and start shooting up the city, so you have to use your gun skills to get them down and try to avoid getting hurt or you will lose a skill .
The Games Friends: " Nevada City is a good board game that deserves a little more attention. You are going to try to build as many buildings as possible in the city. Because the buildings are also places where you can perform actions, the playing field keeps changing and is No round is the same. Highly recommended!
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