Ruling — Concordia Venus

You asked

How do I set up the game?

Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below counted as honest abstain

Asked with: Concordia Venusbg-256916-en-1e

The answerer couldn't ground a confident answer in the rulebook. The closest rulebook passages are below — check them before ruling.

RULEBOOK Concordia Venus — Rulebook · p.1 · GAME MATERIAL · INDIVIDUAL OR TEAM PLAY · Game setup · Game flow · Individual Play for 2-5 players · GAME OVERVIEW · …

2 game boards with 4 scenarios: Hellas Imperium 1 card display (2 puzzle pieces) Ionium 6 storehouses Cyprus 1 Praefectus Magnus/Pantheon Concordia Venus offers two different variants: The Individual Play for 2 to 5 players, and the Team Play for 4 or 6 players (in 2 or 3 teams). Most game rules app

RULEBOOK Concordia Venus — Rulebook · p.4 ·

Before that happens, the player may inspect their partner‘s hand of cards, and silently suggest a certain card by putting it in front when returning the cards. Of course, the partner is always free to follow that suggestion or not. The partner plays a personality card, and that personality card fina

RULEBOOK Concordia Venus — Rulebook · p.2 · Scoring victory points · 2. 1 new colonist · 2. Build houses (after all movements)

The player recovers all of their previously played cards back into his hand. If the player takes back more than 3 cards (including the Tribune in the count), they receive 1 sestertius per card past the 3rd from the bank. In addition the player may optionally purchase 1 new colonist by paying 1 food

RULEBOOK Concordia Venus — Rulebook · p.5 · Card Display · Game board IONIUM · Teams · Turns · Turn Order Marker · Stockpile and Sestertii · …

The boards of IONIUM and CYPRUS do not contain a card display area. Instead, the separate cardboard display is used and placed next to the game board. On its reverse side there is a variant with different additional costs, which is generally usable with all game boards of CONCORDIA. When applied, th

RULEBOOK Concordia Venus — Rulebook · p.5 · PRÆFECTUS MAGNUS · Storehouse · Prefect / Architect - Architect / Mercator - Prefect / Mercator · FURTHER RULES · Trade and Stockpile · Pantheon

If a player who currently owns the PRÆFECTUS M. plays a Prefect card (or uses one with the Diplomat) in order to let a province produce, they receive a double bonus (2 units instead of 1). Production inside the cities is not affected. After their turn they hand the PRÆFECTUS M. to the player sitting

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ABSTAINED — Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below
corpus profile: live
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only): gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings: search 280 ms · ask 4912 ms · total 1173364 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 1168160 ms · generation 5204 ms
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citations (raw): []
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 294 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 294 boosted
answered-before recall: no past answered ruling for this game matched closely enough
similarity threshold in force: 0.55 (rulesage.answered-before.similarity-threshold; the exact-question tier is not gated by it)
debug row retained until: Nov 6, 2026 14:28

retrieval — what the search arm returned

score = the fused retrieval score (reciprocal-rank fusion over the search arms) — NOT a cosine similarity. This ruling ran the THREE-ARM fuse (full-text + vector + the doc-priority boost arm, which carried the base rulebook and/or the errata corrections this query matched), whose arithmetic ceiling is 0.04918 — all three arms ranking the same chunk #1 (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60). The measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 was measured on TWO-arm asks and does not bound this one: its high end is the two-arm ceiling, and a third arm has room above it. 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 rank	document	heading	page	fused RRF score	snippet chars
#1	RULEBOOK Concordia Venus — Rulebook (corpus doc 294)	GAME MATERIAL · INDIVIDUAL OR TEAM PLAY · Game setup · Game flow · Individual Play for 2-5 players · GAME OVERVIEW · …	p.1	0.048652 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#2	RULEBOOK Concordia Venus — Rulebook (corpus doc 294)		p.4	0.032787 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#3	RULEBOOK Concordia Venus — Rulebook (corpus doc 294)	Scoring victory points · 2. 1 new colonist · 2. Build houses (after all movements)	p.2	0.031746 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#4	RULEBOOK Concordia Venus — Rulebook (corpus doc 294)	Card Display · Game board IONIUM · Teams · Turns · Turn Order Marker · Stockpile and Sestertii · …	p.5	0.03125 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#5	RULEBOOK Concordia Venus — Rulebook (corpus doc 294)	PRÆFECTUS MAGNUS · Storehouse · Prefect / Architect - Architect / Mercator - Prefect / Mercator · FURTHER RULES · Trade and Stockpile · Pantheon	p.5	0.030769 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#6	RULEBOOK Concordia Venus — Rulebook (corpus doc 294)	colonist · sPeciAlists	p.3	0.030303 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#7	RULEBOOK Concordia Venus — Rulebook (corpus doc 294)	INTERMEDIATE SCORING · GAME END · FINAL SCORING · VESTA · JUPITER	p.6	0.029851 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#8	RULEBOOK Concordia Venus — Rulebook (corpus doc 294)	Prefect	p.2	0.029412 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 280 ms · first delta 5077 ms · total 1173364 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 1168160 ms · retrieval 280 ms · ask 4912 ms · gateway work 5204 ms · total 1173364 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4633
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 9
tok/sec: 140.6 tok/sec — 9 output tokens in 0.064 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 34s ago)
stream path: streamed — the gateway pushed at least one accumulated draft
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.

disposition

outcome: ABSTAINED — Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below
abstain rationale: I don't have enough information.
the answerer's own words, verbatim — hostile corpus/LLM text, rendered escaped

setup-shape — why the checklist band did or didn't render

decision: NO_APPROVED_CHECKLIST — setup-shaped, but no approved setup checklist exists for this game
pattern that matched: SETUP — "setup" / "set up"
matched words (in the normalized question): set up

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 222), 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.