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what can i do on my turn?

Answered counted as answered

During the Action phase, players take turns performing 1 or 2 actions [1][2][3]. These actions can be combined in any way the player chooses [1][3]. The available actions include: * Playing a card from your hand [3] * Using a standard project [3] * Claiming a milestone [3] * Funding an award [3] * Using the action on a blue card [3] * Converting 8 plants into a greenery tile (which provides an oxygen increase) [3] * Converting 8 heat into a temperature increase [3] If a player takes no actions at all (passes), they are out of the round and may not take any more actions during that generation [3]. The turn proceeds clockwise around the table until everyone has passed, at which point the action phase ends [1][2][3].

[1] RULEBOOK Terraforming Mars — Rulebook · p.9 · ACTIONS
[2] RULEBOOK Terraforming Mars — Rulebook · p.3 · GAME OVERVIEW
[3] RULEBOOK Terraforming Mars — Rulebook · p.8 · 3) Action phase (see page 9)

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outcome
ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile
live
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only)
gemma4:12b think:false 4eb23ef187e2
timings
search 100 ms · ask 4608 ms · total 4716 ms
single-flight (PR-5)
queued 0 ms · generation 4716 ms
retrieval refs (raw)
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citations (raw)
[{"page": 9, "quote": null, "headingPath": "ACTIONS", "sharpsignalDocId": 59}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "GAME OVERVIEW", "sharpsignalDocId": 59}, {"page": 8, "quote": null, "headingPath": "3) Action phase (see page 9)", "sharpsignalDocId": 59}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
no registered errata card matched this query; base-rulebook boost: not recorded (this ruling predates it); rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base-rulebook boost: not recorded (this ruling predates it)
answered-before recall
this ruling was answered, so past rulings were not offered
similarity threshold in force: 0.55 (rulesage.answered-before.similarity-threshold; the exact-question tier is not gated by it)
debug row retained until
Oct 14, 2026 15:46

score = the fused retrieval score (reciprocal-rank fusion over the search arms) — NOT a cosine similarity. How many arms fused this ruling was NOT RECORDED (it predates the boost trail, ran on the path that stored none, or stored one that could not be read), and the ceiling depends on that count (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60): 2 arms top out at 0.03279; 3 arms top out at 0.04918. So a score above 0.03279 here is not an anomaly: it is arithmetic proof a boost arm voted, and the measured band 0.016–0.033 (taken on two-arm asks) is what does not apply. A chunk only one arm ranked highly lands near 0.016 (that one arm's #1 vote), so 0.03 here is an excellent hit, not a 3% match.

per-arm ranks (the rank each search arm gave a chunk): NOT DISCLOSED by the gateway. Fusion happens gateway-side and only the FUSED score crosses the wire, so rulesage cannot show them without a gateway change. The rank column below is the FUSED rank (position in the returned list), which is real.

token count per chunk: NOT DISCLOSED — chunk token counts are not reported on the ask path. The character counts below are of the bounded snippet/quote rulesage actually received — a real measurement of what we hold, never an estimate of the chunk.

fused rankdocumentheadingpage fused RRF scoresnippet chars
#1 RULEBOOK Terraforming Mars — Rulebook (corpus doc 59) 3) Action phase (see page 9) p.8 0.032522 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) 300
#2 RULEBOOK Terraforming Mars — Rulebook (corpus doc 59) ACTIONS p.9 0.032266 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) 300
#3 RULEBOOK Terraforming Mars — Rulebook (corpus doc 59) E) Use the action on a blue card p.11 0.029958 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) 300
#4 RULEBOOK Terraforming Mars — Rulebook (corpus doc 59) GAME OVERVIEW p.3 0.029139 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) 300
#5 RULEBOOK Terraforming Mars — Rulebook (corpus doc 59) SETUP p.7 0.028986 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) 300
#6 RULEBOOK Terraforming Mars — Rulebook (corpus doc 59) F) Convert plants into greenery p.11 0.028718 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) 300
#7 RULEBOOK Terraforming Mars — Rulebook (corpus doc 59) B) Use a standard project p.10 0.028571 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) 300
#8 RULEBOOK Terraforming Mars — Rulebook (corpus doc 59) 3) Action phase (see page 9) p.8 0.028034 (inside the measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 (measured on two-arm asks; this ruling's arm count was never recorded)) 300

token count per chunk: NOT DISCLOSED — chunk token counts are not reported on the ask path. The character counts below are of the bounded snippet/quote rulesage actually received — a real measurement of what we hold, never an estimate of the chunk.

#documentheadingpagequote chars
[1] RULEBOOK Terraforming Mars — Rulebook (corpus doc 59) ACTIONS p.9 no quote on the wire
[2] RULEBOOK Terraforming Mars — Rulebook (corpus doc 59) GAME OVERVIEW p.3 no quote on the wire
[3] RULEBOOK Terraforming Mars — Rulebook (corpus doc 59) 3) Action phase (see page 9) p.8 no quote on the wire
timing split
retrieval 100 ms · first delta n/a · total 4716 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown
queued 0 ms · retrieval 100 ms · ask 4608 ms · gateway work 4716 ms · total 4716 ms
live seat (read from the running child)
answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 35s ago)
stream path
not recorded — this ruling predates the stream-path column (V41)
watchdog
first-token watchdog: 30s per arming window (rulesage.table.first-token-watchdog-seconds), re-armed once by the passages frame — so the worst case before a reader falls back to polling is 60s. Whether it actually fired is a BROWSER-side decision that never reaches the server, so it is not recorded here. The stream path above is the server's half of that story: whether a delta was emitted at all.
num_ctx · think posture
both are the CHILD's settings, not rulesage's, and no ask reply carries them — an answer never states which context window or think posture produced it. The live-seat line above reads them from the running child instead, where the gateway can answer for itself; it describes the child NOW, not this ask.
outcome
ANSWERED — Answered
abstain rationale (n/a — this ruling answered)
answered — no abstain rationale applies
decision
NOT_SETUP_SHAPED — no setup-shape pattern matched this question

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 8), so "no registered errata card matched" above could never have matched one

Errata scope: the gate above matched this ruling's own edition only. When an ask also reads an expansion, that expansion's own registered errata cards stay outside the match — a stated phase-1 limitation, not a failed lookup.