A group of us are playing Merchant of Venus using Cyberboard and email.
Last turn, I sold a good and claimed a bonus of $90.
After my turn, a fellow told me that the bonus actually shouldn't have
been out there, because someone else sold that good, got the bonus, but
forgot and left the bonus marker out there.
Ok, so then I went back and double checked the guy's move. It actually
looks to me like he shouldn't have been able to make it to the space****t
to
sell the good and claim the bonus on his turn.
He has a red drive, which lets him skip the red dots until he has 0
movement points. According to the rules:
8.2 "Each drive allows a ****p to 'hyperjump' over certain colored
dots...."
however,
5.22 "ENDING MOVEMENT: ...When a player has spent or lost all of his MP,
he
ends movement for the turn."
The player in question rolled a 6, 2, 2 = 10 MP
Then he got down to zero MP when he moved to a planetoid, by using his red
drive to skip 5 red dots during his turn. The problem I have is that then
after reaching 0 MP, he "coasted" on past a red 20 penalty marker to the
space****t, where he supposedly beat me to a $90 bonus marker.
According to 5.22, he should have ended movement on the planetoid, when
his MP was reduced to 0, since all movement stops immediately when zero
movement points has been reached.
My understanding is that the drives only let you skip movement dots so
long as you still have movement points, correct? It doesn't seem right to
me that you would get to keep "coasting" even after reaching the 0 MP.
Anyone else ever run into this?
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