Part 163: Drafting Hidden Agendas
- Every House has 48h to decide if they want to follow the guidelines or nominate a different Sitting Councilmember(and/or treasurer) for the 1st Dilemma. This can be changed at a later moment, but I'd need to know who to address for the initial Dilemma
- During the same time period, once the Sitting Councilmember has been selected, I will need a PM/Email from them putting all the 6 Hidden Agendas in a scale from Tier 1 (want most) to Tier 6 (want least). This is cause the Hidden Agenda is normally selected with a draft. You will get assigned the highest tier available Agenda based on picking order (one is removed at random before starting the draft). Once Agendas are divided, I'll update every House Sheet to let everyone know their own House's Agenda for the reign of King Harald V.
- If i get a confirmation for both the Sitting Councilmember and the Agenda priority tier before th 48h limit has expired, I'll proceed with the next update then.
Hidden Agendas
Resource Goal
The Resource Goal rewards you for keeping a certain number of Resource markers in specific areas of the Resource Track. The interaction between the differing interests generated by these goals will encourage you to support or compete with the other players to keep the Resource markers in the position you desire. A specific player may be your ally during the current Voting Phase, but strongly oppose you during the next, depending on their personal interests in each specific moment. Try to read the intentions of the other players and deduce their Secret Agenda to gain an advantage during each Voting Phase. NOTE: certain Agendas grant a larger Prestige Points
or Crave Points 
bonus after being used 4 times by your House, according to your House Sheet.Money Ranking Goal
The bottom of each Secret Agenda card also lists the number of Agenda Points
you gain if you are the first, second, or third player with the most Coins at the end of the game. The different Secret Agendas have different scores linked to money; for example, Greedy makes a lot of for the Money Ranking Goal, so a player with this Secret Agenda will be more inclined to accept money from the other players during negotiations. Vice-versa, a player with Rebel makes few for the Money Ranking Goal, so they will probably be more inclined to spend Coins to “buy” the other players and “oil the machine” in their favor. In case of a tie, all tied players share the same position (and get the corresponding score described on their Secret Agenda card). NOTE: aside from this, Coins are only used to bargain. You don't get to save leftover Coins in between reigns (although your starting amount may be modified by achievements or other legacy effects).Picking Order
The House with the least Prestige
is the first to picked, while the House with the most Prestige is the last. During the first game, The order is based on the "nobility" of the House itself, determined by the "House Number" on your House Sheet (the highest the number, the highest the nobility). The picking order for the reign of King Harald V is:- First Pick: House Gambol, Dukes of Solad (2)
- House Cyfoeth, Dukes of Coden (4)
- House Daucus, Dukes of Olwyn (5)
- House Pinchay, Dukes of Gamam (7)
- Last Pick: House Lethe, Dukes of Natar (12)
By the way, since not everyone may be familiar with the way Google Sheets work, if you want to have a look at all the comments left by your Housemates and you don't want to click around cells, you can click on this icon to see a list of all the comments in a "nested structure":
Top right corner, text bubble icon. The comments are in reverse order, with the most recent ones at the top; they are nested in a way similar to old forums/reddit, with a "master" comment being the first comment on one specific cell and all the other comments being nested as "replies" to that one.
I also suggest to clean up old comments by resolving them once they are no longer relevant, to keep things readable. I leave this to each House's self organization for my own sanity
EDIT: I'm adding all the additional rules to the section with the same name in the OP, in case you want to have a look at them later on!