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HOUSE RULED
First of all, I love this game is my favourite game of all time.
My respects for the authors of it.
I only have the base game second edition without expansions.

Anyway, I end up applying some house rules to make the basic game better (according to me :))

START FASTER
Use minimal setup, this is in the rule book as an official variant and it’s my favourite set up. Players get into each other right away.

ASYMMETRY
I bought the extra action cards that are for sale on bgg store. These cards add asymmetry to each colour.
If next to that you start with 3 techs of your own choice(each player get to spend up to 11 points max. ( I think this is also in the rule book as an official variant)

RESISTANCE PLANETS UPSIDEDOWN
I put all the resistance tokens on a bag
whenever somebody moved to an upsidedown planet get to pull a token from the bag. The resistance card is applied according to the colour of the token.

COMBAT
I use the add to sixes style.
meaning if I roll 3 dice and get this result:
example 1
1,2,3 it is one hit because of the total is 6
example 2
if I roll 5,6,1 Its 2 hits because of I could add to 6 two times
(In my humble opinion, the battles were too long)

MOVEMENT
use a whiteboard with markers just put the numbers (this get rid of the tokens because is fiddly)
Don’t forget that you get to move +battle+deploy two times per turn(this is huge)I was playing this incorrectly and changes the game experience.

ACTION CARDS
you have access to all action every start of the turn. (another thing I was playing incorrectly This was not specified in the rulebook.

WMD limit
Max 2 weapons per planet.
I think it’s a cool rule (This rule is from expansion I think)
This way, if you want to deploy multiple weapons, exposing them to being taken over by a player who can bring there more population.