Suburbia - How To Play

[@Jeff_Pusch]

I hope Rodney's video lures more people to the wonder that is Suburbia. It's easily my favorite game, and likely my most-played since getting into the hobby. Fantastic all around.

[@WatchItPlayed]

So glad you've been enjoying this one! Never to late to learn a game that is "new to you"!

[@fabienleger5757]

One thing I love about theses videos is how Rodney says: AND... that's the setup! Another great tutorial video!

[@michelea2326]

The timing of this tutorial is creepy (good creepy!)...I was just searching for Suburbia tutorials last night and this morning and was saddened that there was no Rodney!!! Thanks for this perfectly well-timed video!!!

[@WatchItPlayed]

Hey, how great is that :) Happy that timing worked out!

[@ScytheNoire]

I love that SimCity has had a long lasting effect on all city building games that have come after it in the colour of zones. Suburbia, Small City, Cities Skyline all use the same Green/Blue/Yellow for Residential/Commercial/Industrial. Really want to get the Collector's Edition of Suburbia.

[@WatchItPlayed]

When something works, stick with it, right? :)

[@Chosen1Creator]

The hotel tile looks alot like one of the residential buildings from SimCity 2000.

[@joesolo1836]

I've been back and forth of this one for a while now. Been leaning to the "yes". thanks for the great overview, Rodney!! your videos are some of the best tutorials out there!!

[@WatchItPlayed]

Thanks Joe, that's very kind of you to say - thanks for checking out the video!

[@mienzillaz]

No matter if you already own the game, you always learn new things from Rodney. Thanks

[@WatchItPlayed]

You're very welcome - thanks for checking it out!

[@madthinker7777]

No matter how old the game is, Rodney still delivers the most comprehensive and efficent how to play in the biz.

[@WatchItPlayed]

Very kind of you to say - glad you enjoyed!

[@jurds216]

Just picked this up and a convention swap meet. Glad to see a tutorial from you and can’t wait to get it to the table!

[@WatchItPlayed]

Nice timing! I hope you have a great time playing!

[@AnthonyGii]

Can't say it enough-but super66b videos, Rodney! There's so much skill involved in explaining rules clearly. Voice pitch, hand movement... Ordered the game and can't wait.

[@WatchItPlayed]

Thank you kindly for the nice words Gee - have a great time playing!

[@krazykorean42069]

Just got this game! Can't wait to play it 😁

[@WatchItPlayed]

Great timing - have fun!

[@thecommuterzombie]

This was really handy and helped me remember how to play after not getting it to the table in a while. Just got to work in the expansions now...

[@WatchItPlayed]

Have a great time playing!

[@muzzysticks]

This is such a great game, and boy does this edition look so much prettier than the original one i have

[@WatchItPlayed]

They made some nice adjustments didn't they?

[@muzzysticks]

@@WatchItPlayed Oh they sure did!

[@daem0nfaust]

Mindful graphic design overhaul did this game good

[@henriwhitehead]

Great video! I’ve always been interested in this one.

[@WatchItPlayed]

Glad you got to check it out Henri!

[@stevekingswell9143]

Great as usual Rodney, many thx.

[@WatchItPlayed]

You're very welcome - have a good time playing Steve!

[@livethenlearn33]

Love this tutorial! I always send people to your videos when playing a new board game. Picked this one up thanks to this video as well! Any chance on getting a “Nemesis” tutorial?

[@WatchItPlayed]

Thanks for the kind words and the interest! I talk a bit about that here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5XXdaisfrqUbKM&t=342

[@leahlane987]

Thank you for this video! Any idea if you will be doing a video on the game Living Forest anytime soon? Thanks, again!

[@WatchItPlayed]

Thanks for the interest! I talk a bit about that here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5XXdaisfrqUbKM&t=342

[@leahlane987]

@@WatchItPlayed Thank you for the reply. 100% understand! Thanks for all you do!!!

[@scrubkid6602]

That's one CHUNKY first player marker.

[@frankduty1949]

Thanks Rodney! Have you considered producing a Watch It Played video for Ark Nova? We need it, Rodney!

[@WatchItPlayed]

Thanks for the interest! I talk a bit about that here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5XXdaisfrqUbKM&t=342

[@teejleague3838]

I've never gotten a chance to play this one, but I know it is regarded highly in the gaming community!!!

[@WatchItPlayed]

Oh yes, I'd agree with that.

[@TheHuntrees007]

Thorough and simple. Git me jazzed to play

[@WatchItPlayed]

Very glad you enjoyed what you saw!

[@tomworks8004]

Rodney, We just had a big argument over the placement of tiles next to other tiles and how you make adjustments. Say for example, you placed a Lake tile next to an Office Building and a Mint. After taking the actions from the tile being placed; ie the Lake tile, you then take the action of the Office Building and the Mint that are next to the Lake you just placed. Is that correct? Or do you just take the action of the Office Building or just the Mint or neither or both.

[@WatchItPlayed]

Hey Tom, I'm always happy to try to help with rules questions, but if the answer is provided in the video, than I have to direct you there. You'll find an index in the description to help you find the section you might be looking for. I think you'll find there are several examples in this video to cover the questions you're having.

[@tomworks8004]

@@WatchItPlayed Rodney, I appreciate the demands on your time. You don't want to go down the rabbit hole of answering everyone's questions. Frankly, I'm grateful you even responded at all! The four of us have watched and re-watched your video and still have a difference of opinion. My contention is that when placing a tile you resolve all adjacent tiles conditional effects, even conditional effects that don't have the word "adjacent" in the wording (like the Mint). My mates disagree.

[@WatchItPlayed]

@@tomworks8004 Hey Tom, doesn't this section cover it exactly though? kzbin.info/www/bejne/f6rcc5KMnbCBeqc - it then proceeds to give a full example of a complex situation to help drive it home. Could you watch that and let me know if it doesn't cover it clearly? Watch from that moment up to 13:01. I don't have the Office Building and Mint tiles handy to remember what they each say, but isn't this example otherwise the same situation you're asking about?

[@BBYROO5155]

Rodney, My friends and I just played (3 players) this wonderful game. We thoroughly enjoyed it. We do have a question though. I was quite surprised when we reached the top of the meeple board and started again from the bottom. That made me think we were scoring incorrectly. I understand about scoring a tile and the surrounding tiles adjacent to the new tile. We were also scoring the conditional effects of all the other placed tiles as stated in the rules (resolve any conditional effects on non adjacent tiles). Isn't that just saying resolve all the conditional effects on ALL the tiles? Please clarify. Thank you.

[@WatchItPlayed]

It's hard to know if you're playing any rules wrong, but it sounds like you are playing the conditional tiles correctly from what you've described. Do check the section of the video where that's covered to double check (it's indexed, so you can find it quickly).

[@KimDahl77]

Are you sure you didn't already make a video on this? :) Seems like a game there would be rules video for.

[@WatchItPlayed]

It would be quite amusing if I accidentally made a tutorial for a game I had forgotten I'd already made a tutorial for!

[@thelankygameruk7787]

Really excellent video

[@WatchItPlayed]

Thank you kindly!

[@vanstromi7810]

Can you please do a video for the collector’s edition of the game? No one does this as good as you do

[@WatchItPlayed]

Thanks for the kind words. The rules here cover the collector's edition too - it just has some extra expansion type things, so I likely wouldn't cover those specifically.

[@mumanddad227]

Please do Lizard Wizard 😁 That’d be awesome, lol! Love this channel!

[@WatchItPlayed]

Thanks for the interest and kind words :)

[@Bunny2086]

So if a public goal says "Fewest civic buildings", does having 0 civic buildings count to be eligible to win the goal?

[@WatchItPlayed]

Yes it does.

[@ugabugamvd]

If i use x2 marker on a tile (eg airport) which qualifies for a goal (eg most airports) do i could that tile twice towards the goal? ie if i only have a domestic airport with x2 marker on it in my city, do i count it as 1 or 2 towards the goal?

[@WatchItPlayed]

Hi Mihael, the investment marker does double the immediate and conditional effects of the tile it is placed on, but it doesn't cause the tile to count as 2 of itself (this is why adjacent effects, or other effects in your city don't trigger their effects again when you place the investment marker).

[@ugabugamvd]

@@WatchItPlayed Perfect, thanks for the swift reply!

[@teejleague3838]

Looks fun except for the part where you can build a neighborhood alliance. XD That's scarier than Cthulhu's to us after we got sold a house being deceived about the alliance and what kind of fence and......*shudders*

[@WatchItPlayed]

Sounds like some scars from that experience!

[@teejleague3838]

@@WatchItPlayed Yeah it wasn't the best. Fortunately, I think the neighborhood alliance in this game will be safe enough. ;)

[@thesolitairegambit2556]

Has anyone play the Solo variant of this game ? If so, please let me know what you think

[@WatchItPlayed]

I haven't tried, but maybe someone else will chime in.

[@garylaframboise2721]

I was thinking the same thing and I hope someone has an opinion.

[@thesolitairegambit2556]

@@WatchItPlayed thanks. Maybe Paula will do it 😁😁😁 Table for One ☝️

[@britishbattleborn]

I play this mainly solo without the "Bot". It is super quick, 30 minutes, and the AI's turn is basically just removing a tile so its done in like 5 seconds. The disadvantages of playing alone is money is pretty tight. So many tiles are affected by other peoples cities that when you play alone you don't get the extra that comes from other players placing tiles (This could also be said about playing with only 2 players too). Adding the Bot helps with this but it adds too much of a time cost having to work out what they should do. Solo also has the rule that passing a red line decreases your income and population by 2 instead of 1. Later on in the game when its possible to cross 2 lines in one go, the game turns into a puzzle about getting around that and that adds a little something that you don't get in multiplayer games. It adds a late game difficulty that I like and makes it feel different from multiplayer games.

[@Paulovlyra]

Wish this game came to Brazil

[@WatchItPlayed]

Maybe some day!

[@wyz1324]

How many tiles? 7 eh tiles! 😁

[@WatchItPlayed]

The Canadian way!

[@wyz1324]

@@WatchItPlayed of course!

[@katelynmorgan2327]

What happens during income if your on 0.

[@WatchItPlayed]

The income track tells you how much money to gain or lose based on its position. So if it was on 1, you’d gain 1. If it’s on -1 you’d lose 1. If it’s on 0, you don’t gain or lose anything.

[@vexienroe]

sorry if this is crossing a line but how old are you? feels like you have been here forever and you have fully adult kids but you look so young!

[@WatchItPlayed]

I'm in my 40s.

[@vexienroe]

@@WatchItPlayed you look like 39 at most, haha im 33 and have way more greys than you do.

[@2020Bookworm]

So only one person can play the game?

[@WatchItPlayed]

I'm confused about why you'd think so? The opening of the video explains it's for 1 to 4 players. Was something said that made you think only 1 person could play?

[@FritzTheCat1030]

"If you don't have enough money to pay what you owe...subtract the rest from your current population"...that'll teach you to borrow from loan sharks, I guess, lol.

[@WatchItPlayed]

It's rough out there!

[@samueldewet9171]

Second

[@kushsaksena6230]

First