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Another thing - if you have more than 3 fields producing the same item, each one gets an additional unit. Pair that up with keeping your productions right next to or above/below each other one.

I hope more people will play this.

M.U.L.E Playthrough #2 "I'm Only Human"

My Color: Green
My Character: Humanoid

Month 1
Purple buys the extra plot for sale.
I got $100 for stopping the wart worm infestation.
Sunspot Activity -- energy production increased!
I was in last place with $1393.

Month 2
I bought the extra plot for sale.
Red got $150 for investments in "dumbness".
I got a $50 grant for 1 food plot from the colony.
Pest Attack! Blue lost all food on 1 plot.
I was in last place with $2089.

Month 3
Orange buys the extra plot for sale.
Blue had to pay $50 for overworking 1 mining MULE.
I got $100 because my MULE can apparently dance.
Pest Attack! Red lost all food on 1 plot.
I was in 2nd place with $3050.

Month 4
Blue buys the extra plot for sale.
Sunspot Activity -- energy production increase!
I was in 2nd place with $4406.

Month 5
Green buys the extra plot for sale.
I bought the second extra plot for sale.
I paid $50 to clean my energy MULE.
Red inherited $200.
I lost a mining MULE due to radiation.
I was in 2nd place with $5046.

Month 6
Orange buys the extra plot for sale.
Purple lost a plot due to a clerical error!
Blue gets $150 from donations.
Planetquake! Mining production cut in half.
I was in 1st place with $6378.

Month 7
Purple buys the extra plot for sale.
Purple gets $100 for eating tons of swamp eels.
Acid Rain Storm! Food up, energy down.
I was in 2nd place with $7072.

Month 8
Nobody bought the extra plot for sale.
I lost an energy MULE due to radiation.
I was in 3rd place with $8470.

Month 9 :
Blue bought the extra plot for sale.
Purple gets 2 units of Smithore from alien traveler.
Planetquake! Mining production cut in half.
I was in 3rd place with $9379.

Month 10
Blue pays $450 for relatives messing up the town.
Pirate ship took all the Smithore! (it also takes any that you produced too!)
I was in 1st place with $10477.

Month 11
Fire In Store! All stock lost!
I was in 2nd place with $11203.

Month 12
Transport ship retruns!
Purple wins $200 for best built MULE.
I ended up in 4th place with $12722, even though I had the most cash on hand, the CPU players held on to lots of Smithore.

Final results (The colony failed overall, more than likely because of the late store fire)

Wasn't gonna play this game, but I'm a little interested now after seeing these posts.

Gonna emulate it on my Wii.

EDIT:
WOW This game is REALLY hard to understand, or maybe I'm just dumb.

M.U.L.E Playthrough #3 - "Kris-Tight"

My Color: Purple
My Character: Gollumer

Month 1
Green gets the plot of land for sale.
Fire In Store - all stock lost!
I was in 4th place.

Month 2
Blue gets the plot of land for sale.
Planetquake - mining production half of normal.
I was in 1st place with $2271.

Month 3
Nobody bought the plot of land for sale.
Planetquake - mining production half of normal.
I was in 3rd place with $3051.

Month 4
Red bought the plot of land for sale.
Blue bought the second plot of land for sale.
My MULE was "best built" at the colony fair. I get $100.
Blue lost a MULE due to radiation.
I was in 4th place with $4483.

Month 5
Red bought the plot of land for sale.
Green bought the second plot of land for sale.
Green bought the third plot of lad for sale.
Red gets another plot of land for free.
Acid Rain Storm - Food up, energy down.
I was in 4th place with $5601.

Month 6
Blue bought the plot of land for sale.
Meteor strike makes a new Crystite deposit.
I was in 4th place with $7708.

Month 7
No new plots for sale.
Green stops the worm invastion and gets $200.
Store On Fire - All stock lost!
I was in 4th place with $9793.

Month 8
I bought the plot of land for sale.
Blue's MULE danced its way to $300.
Pest attack! Red lost food in 1 plot.
I was in 4th place with $10615.

Month 9
I found a dead moose rat and sold it for $150.
Pest attack! Red lost food in 1 plot.
I was in 3rd place with $12640.

Month 10
Green inherited $300 from a dead relative.
Planetquake - mining production half of normal.
I was in 2nd place with $14836.

Month 11
Pest attack! Red lost food in 1 plot.
I was in 3rd place with $17362.

Month 12
Transport ship returns!
I got $600 return on investments.
I was in 3rd place with $20757.



Final results, with an improvement this time. Overall the colony survived, even with the times we were low on food and energy.

This was my first playthrough on the Tournament level. If I had bought some more land, I might have been OK and possibly could have placed better. The store fires didn't help either, as the price for MULEs went as high as $500 due to low Smithore stocks. I didn't do as much Smithore as the CPU did (again), they just hoard it at the end so that their Goods score increases. But, ASSAY as often as you can, and study the assays that the CPU does. Even a Medium-assayed Crystite field can yield quite a bit, but the 3 planetquakes didn't do me any favors either as Crystite is a mining activity. Remember that Crystite isn't a store commodity, the price is determined on the market outside of the planet, so hold your units if the going price in the current month is below $100.

MULE is being released as a boardgame, official debut is in October, but boxart was released:



https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/182 ... board-game

Wow, that makes a lot of sense but it's also very unexpected! The question now is; what's better? This, or Planet Steam?