You asked
If raising oxygen also raises the temperature, do I score terraforming rating for both steps or only the first?
Answered counted as answeredAsked with: Terraforming Marsbg-167791-en-1e
Whenever you raise a global parameter (temperature, oxygen, or ocean), your terraform rating (TR) also increases by that much.[1][2] Therefore, if raising oxygen also raises the temperature, you would increase your TR for both steps.[1][2][3]
So says the rulebook. So plays the table.
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🔧 debug — where this ruling came from
- outcome
- ANSWERED — Answered
- corpus profile
- live,vps
- answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only)
- gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
- timings
- search 178 ms · ask 1445 ms · total 1629 ms
- single-flight (PR-5)
- queued 0 ms · generation 1629 ms
- retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read
- [{"page": 8, "score": 0.042925, "snippet": "All players perform this phase simultaneously. First, all energy is converted into heat (move all resource cubes from the energy box to the heat box). Secondly, all players receive new resources: Players get M€ according to their terraform rating plus any M€ production (which may be negative!), then", "headingPath": "4) Production phase", "sharpsignalDocId": 59}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.032787, "snippet": "As the atmosphere thickens, greenhouse effects will raise the temperature, as indicated by the bonus at 8% oxygen. As the temperature rises, carbon dioxide will thaw out, adding a greenhouse warming effect as indicated by the heat production bonuses. Then, at 0 ˚C, ice-bound water in the soil will b", "headingPath": "The Bonus Steps", "sharpsignalDocId": 59}, {"page": 14, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "Terraforming Mars is about making Mars earthlike enough to live freely on it. There are 4 parameters on the game board connected to this process: Terraform rating, temperature, oxygen level and ocean coverage. Terraform Rating (TR) is the measure of how much you have contributed to the terraforming ", "headingPath": "Parameters", "sharpsignalDocId": 59}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "Temperature, oxygen, and ocean are called global parameters . Whenever you raise one of them, your terraform rating also increases by that much, giving you a higher income and score. When a global parameter has reached its goal, it can't be raised any further, and so does not increase your TR. You m", "headingPath": "GLOBAL PARAMETERS", "sharpsignalDocId": 59}, {"page": 4, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "Terraform rating (TR) track: All players start at 20. This is your basic income (see pages 6 and 8) and VPs. You increase it every time you terraform. Generation track: The generation marker measures time (rounds) and starts at 1, moving up on the TR track. Solo games start with a TR of 14, and end ", "headingPath": "GAME BOARD", "sharpsignalDocId": 59}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "Each area or tile on the game board represents 1% of the Martian surface, so 9 Ocean tiles represents 9% ocean coverage, which should be enough to enable stable hydrological cycles, air moisture, and weather patterns. Water is also important, as it moderates temperature swings. At very low temperatu", "headingPath": "A Terraformed Mars", "sharpsignalDocId": 59}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "In Terraforming Mars, you control a corporation, and you buy and play cards describing different projects. The projects often directly or indirectly contribute to the terraforming process, but can also consist of business enterprises of different kinds. In order to win, you have to accumulate a good", "headingPath": "GAME OVERVIEW", "sharpsignalDocId": 59}, {"page": 11, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "8 plant resources may be turned into a greenery tile, which increases oxygen level 1 step (and therefore also your TR 1 step). Note that the greenery tile must be placed next to another of your tiles (if possible) and may generate placement bonuses (see page 5). Example: Robinson removes 8 plant res", "headingPath": "F) Convert plants into greenery", "sharpsignalDocId": 59}]
- citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show
- [{"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "GLOBAL PARAMETERS", "sharpsignalDocId": 59}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "GAME OVERVIEW", "sharpsignalDocId": 59}, {"page": 14, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Parameters", "sharpsignalDocId": 59}]
- boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)
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no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 59 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 59 boosted
- answered-before recall
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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)
- answer fence
- passed — letter density 0.87500 of 208 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
- debug row recorded
- Sep 20, 2026 21:36 UTC
retrieval — what the passage search returned
what this block IS: the PASSAGE SEARCH's own results — the same search that fills this page's closest-passages list — and NOT the passages the answerer read. Answering runs its OWN retrieval: a far wider candidate pool, re-ranked down to a final handful, plus floors this search never applies — the base rulebook, surviving errata corrections, and one slot per book on a multi-book read. Each of those armed only if THIS ask sent what it needs: the boost block names the ids it forwarded, and the scope line names the books it read. A document the answer CITES that no row here names is therefore EXPECTED, not a defect: two searches, two candidate pools, two orders. The answerer's own final rows are shown in their own block below, beside these and never mixed into them.
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 Terraforming Mars — Rulebook (corpus doc 59) | 4) Production phase | p.8 | 0.042925 (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 Terraforming Mars — Rulebook (corpus doc 59) | The Bonus Steps | 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 Terraforming Mars — Rulebook (corpus doc 59) | Parameters | p.14 | 0.032258 (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 Terraforming Mars — Rulebook (corpus doc 59) | GLOBAL PARAMETERS | p.3 | 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 |
| #5 | RULEBOOK Terraforming Mars — Rulebook (corpus doc 59) | GAME BOARD | p.4 | 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 |
| #6 | RULEBOOK Terraforming Mars — Rulebook (corpus doc 59) | A Terraformed Mars | p.3 | 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 |
| #7 | RULEBOOK Terraforming Mars — Rulebook (corpus doc 59) | GAME OVERVIEW | 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 |
| #8 | RULEBOOK Terraforming Mars — Rulebook (corpus doc 59) | F) Convert plants into greenery | p.11 | 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 |
what the answerer read — the passages it actually had in front of it
what this block IS: the passages the ANSWERING read put in front of the answerer, in the order it read them — the other half of the two reads described above, and the one that decides what the answer could possibly say. Each row names the book it came from and where in that book it sits, what it scored when the search arms were fused, which arm carried it there, and whether the re-ranker chose it or a floor guaranteed it a slot. A row here that no passage-search row names is EXPECTED: a far wider pool, re-ranked, with floors the passage search never applies.
candidate pool: the answering read scored 49 passages, out of a ceiling of 80 set gateway-side. Both figures are reported by the gateway for THIS ask — measurements of what actually happened, not constants read out of anyone's source and printed here on faith.
floors armed for this ask: the base rulebook — armed · surviving errata corrections — not armed · one slot per book on a multi-book read — not armed. Every floor is stated on every ask, armed or not, so a floor that did not apply here is never mistaken for one this app does not know about.
arms fused for this ask: vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm. Stated separately from the rows because an arm that ran and carried nothing is a different fact from an arm that never ran.
| read at | document | heading | page | fused rank | fused RRF score | carried by | how it got its slot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | RULEBOOK Terraforming Mars — Rulebook (corpus doc 59) | GLOBAL PARAMETERS | p.3 | #4 | 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)) | vector + the doc-priority boost arm | the re-ranker chose it |
| #2 | RULEBOOK Terraforming Mars — Rulebook (corpus doc 59) | F) Convert plants into greenery | p.11 | #8 | 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)) | vector + the doc-priority boost arm | the re-ranker chose it |
| #3 | RULEBOOK Terraforming Mars — Rulebook (corpus doc 59) | GAME OVERVIEW | p.3 | #7 | 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)) | vector + the doc-priority boost arm | the re-ranker chose it |
| #4 | RULEBOOK Terraforming Mars — Rulebook (corpus doc 59) | Solo variant for Corporate Era: | p.13 | #10 | 0.028006 (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)) | vector + full-text | the re-ranker chose it |
| #5 | RULEBOOK Terraforming Mars — Rulebook (corpus doc 59) | B) Use a standard project | p.10 | #13 | 0.027047 (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)) | vector + full-text | the re-ranker chose it |
| #6 | RULEBOOK Terraforming Mars — Rulebook (corpus doc 59) | The Bonus Steps | p.4 | #2 | 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)) | vector + the doc-priority boost arm | the re-ranker chose it |
| #7 | RULEBOOK Terraforming Mars — Rulebook (corpus doc 59) | GAME BOARD | p.4 | #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)) | vector + the doc-priority boost arm | the re-ranker chose it |
| #8 | RULEBOOK Terraforming Mars — Rulebook (corpus doc 59) | Parameters | p.14 | #3 | 0.032258 (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)) | vector + the doc-priority boost arm | the re-ranker chose it |
chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited
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.
| # | document | heading | page | quote chars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [1] | RULEBOOK Terraforming Mars — Rulebook (corpus doc 59) | GLOBAL PARAMETERS | p.3 | 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) | Parameters | p.14 | no quote on the wire |
generation — timing and the path taken
- timing split
- retrieval 178 ms · first delta 1263 ms · total 1629 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 178 ms · ask 1445 ms · gateway work 1629 ms · total 1629 ms
- tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
- 2634
- tokens out (what the answerer generated)
- 60
- tok/sec
- 196.1 tok/sec — 60 output tokens in 0.306 s of generation
- live seat (read from the running child)
- answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 29s ago)
- answerer host (measured by rulesage)
- reachable (for 22h, checked 7s ago)
- answerer node (the seat proxy's own header — this probe, not this ask)
- node1
- 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
- ANSWERED — Answered
- abstain rationale (n/a — this ruling answered)
- answered — no abstain rationale applies
setup-shape — why the checklist band did or didn't render
- decision
- NOT_SETUP_SHAPED — no setup-shape pattern matched this question
errata registry — what the gate above had to match against
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.