Game Balance Fixes
The following changes may be made to the official rules in order to create a more balanced game and one which gives each player an equal chance of winning:
- The prices of the Factory and University buildings should be swapped so that the Factory costs 8 doubloons and the University costs 7 doubloons. The designer Andreas Seyfarth has said he would make this change if he were creating the game today.
- Any players that start with a corn plantation should start with 1 doubloon less than the players that start with an indigo plantation.
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