Thank you for your feedback! I would try to explain or respond to as many points as I can.
* In regards to why one of the teams could not build after a while, there might be several possibilities. Either the team has run out of blocks to place in their inventory or it has run out of action points and could not build. Worst case scenario, if that player disappeared from the board, it was probably a bug that we are actively trying to replicate now.
* The hexagon in the middle is a buff block. Obtaining a buff block will give a player 2 additional AP each turn, but the buff will be dropped if the player dies. I believe buff was explained in the "Game Rules" section in the menu.
* Unfortunately I am not sure what did you mean exactly by "turning turtle". I would appreciate it greatly if you elaborated on it.
We would also be happy to answer any questions you have in person! We are at our show booth in gather.town every day from 1 till 5 pm by Swedish time.
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It's possible that the player ran out of blocks. I guess somewhere it tells me how to get more blocks. I thought destroying mountains might do it, but it didn't.
The buff may well have been explained in the rules, but you made the classic mistake of assuming your player will read them! I tried mousing over the indicator to see if that would tell me what it did, but it didn't.
By "turning turtle", I mean that if all the players play defensively, nothing happens except that when you attack you lose.