Description
The game end is triggered by a resource being exhausted. Players can affect the length of the game by how these resources are used.
Discussion
The Exhausting Resources mechanism is a nice balance between driving the game toward a conclusion and giving the players some control over the pacing. In the 18xx series of games, the game end is triggered by all money being taken out of the bank. In Trough the Ages: A Story of Civilization, when the final Age III cards are drawn, the game ends, giving players the option to draw a lot or a few of the cards to manage the pace. Race for the Galaxy has a pool of VP tokens, which end the game when exhausted, and Dominion concludes when three stacks are exhausted. While these examples all have a shared resource pool, some games end when an individual pool is exhausted. Ticket to Ride ends when one player has 0–2 trains left. In Light Speed, the game moves on to final scoring after one player has placed all of their ships on the table. This technique is frequently used as a loss condition for cooperative games. For example, in Pandemic, having to place a disease cube but having none
available in the pool will end the game in a loss, as will placing all the ghosts in Ghost Fightin’ Treasure Hunters.
Sample Games
1830 (Tresham, 1986) Dominion (Vaccarino, 2008) Ghost Fightin’ Treasure Hunters (Yu, 2013) Light Speed (Ernest and Jolly, 2003) Pandemic (Leacock, 2008) Race for the Galaxy (Lehmann, 2007) Trough the Ages: A Story of Civilization (Chvátil, 1986) Ticket to Ride (Moon, 2004)
描述
游戏结束由资源耗尽（Exhausting Resources）触发。玩家可以通过这些资源的使用方式来影响游戏的长度。
讨论
耗尽资源机制在推动游戏走向结局和赋予玩家控制节奏之间取得了很好的平衡。在18xx系列游戏中，游戏结束是由银行里的钱全部被取走触发的。在《历史巨轮》（Through the Ages: A Story of Civilization）中，当最后的第三时代卡牌被抽出时，游戏结束，玩家可以选择多抽或少抽卡牌来管理节奏。《银河竞逐》（Race for the Galaxy）有一个VP代币池，耗尽时游戏结束，而《皇舆争霸》（Dominion）在三堆卡牌耗尽时结束。虽然这些例子都有一个共享资源池，但有些游戏会在个人资源池耗尽时结束。《车票之旅》（Ticket to Ride）当一名玩家剩下0-2辆火车时结束。在《Light Speed》中，当一名玩家将所有飞船放在桌子上后，游戏进入最终计分。这种技术经常用作合作游戏的失败条件。例如，在《瘟疫危机》（Pandemic）中，必须放置疾病立方体但池中没有
可用会导致游戏失败，就像在《Ghost Fightin’ Treasure Hunters》中放置所有鬼魂一样。
游戏范例
1830 (Tresham, 1986) - 《1830》 Dominion (Vaccarino, 2008) - 《皇舆争霸》 Ghost Fightin’ Treasure Hunters (Yu, 2013) - 《Ghost Fightin’ Treasure Hunters》 Light Speed (Ernest and Jolly, 2003) - 《Light Speed》 Pandemic (Leacock, 2008) - 《瘟疫危机》 Race for the Galaxy (Lehmann, 2007) - 《银河竞逐》 Trough the Ages: A Story of Civilization (Chvátil, 1986) - 《历史巨轮》 Ticket to Ride (Moon, 2004) - 《车票之旅》