The 4X Test

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M
1	Mechanic	Notes	4X Example	N4Xception	Explore	Expand	Extract	Exterminate	Not Necessarily 4X	Reasoning

2					1.041666667	3.645833333	6.770833333	5.729166667	82.8125	%total
3					2	7	13	11	159	Total
4	Acting	0							1		what I can do with this spreadsheet: show that most of these mechanics are not necessarily 4x, but are often deployed for 4x	the exceptions show that even most of the 4x mechanics can be deployed in a non-4x way	i could store all of the mechanics and categories in a dictionary, with the row as the tag. then each game has a rank, title, list of tags, number of 4x tags... ideally on another sheet i have a count of all tags to see how often they occur. then you could have some interesting data of like rank vs explore or whatever
5	Action / Event	0							1
6	Action Drafting	0							1		Markets, auction, and buying/selling
7	Action Points	0							1
8	Action Queue	0							1		Again social deduction, auction, negotiation
9	Action Retrieval	0							1
10	Action Timer	0							1		MARK WEAK INDICATORS
11	Advantage Token	0							1
12	Alliances	0							1
13	Area Majority / Influence	2				1				Most of the "expand" mechanics are a subset of area majority/influence. This area can be geographical, electoral, or ideological.
14	Area Movement	0							1
15	Area-Impulse	4						1		Most mechanics with the "exterminate" tag do not need to be tied to war, but historically are. You can assume that if there isn't a reasoning for an Exterminate tag, it falls into this category or is literally about war.
16	Auction / Bidding	0							1
17	Auction Compensation	0							1
18	Auction: Dexterity	0							1
19	Auction: Dutch	0							1
20	Auction: Dutch Priority	0							1
21	Auction: English	0							1
22	Auction: Fixed Placement	0							1
23	Auction: Multiple Lot	0							1
24	Auction: Once Around	0							1
25	Auction: Sealed Bid	0							1
26	Auction: Turn Order Until Pass	0							1
27	Automatic Resource Growth	3					1			Things are always being created and destroyed in our planetary system, but we are concerned with those things being framed as resources to be exploited.
28	Betting and Bluffing	0							1
29	Bias	0							1
30	Bids As Wagers	0							1
31	Bingo	0							1
32	Bribery	0							1
33	Campaign / Battle Card Driven	4						1
34	Card Play Conflict Resolution	4						1
35	Catch the Leader	0							1
36	Chaining	0							1
37	Chit-Pull System	0							1
38	Closed Drafting	0							1
39	Closed Economy Auction	0							1
40	Command Cards	0							1
41	Commodity Speculation	3					1			A commodity is the result of alienated labor.
42	Communication Limits	0							1
43	Connections	0							1
44	Constrained Bidding	0							1
45	Contracts	0							1
46	Cooperative Game	0							1
47	Crayon Rail System	2				1
48	Critical Hits and Failures	4						1
49	Cube Tower	0							1
50	Deck Construction	0							1
51	Deck, Bag, and Pool Building	0							1
52	Deduction	0							1
53	Delayed Purchase	0							1
54	Dice Rolling	0							1
55	Die Icon Resolution	0							1
56	Different Dice Movement	0							1
57	Drawing	0							1
58	Elapsed Real Time Ending	0							1
59	Enclosure	2				1
60	End Game Bonuses	0							1
61	Events	0							1
62	Finale Ending	0							1
63	Flicking	0							1
64	Follow	0							1
65	Force Commitment	4						1
66	Grid Coverage	0							1
67	Grid Movement	0							1
68	Hand Management	0							1
69	Hexagon Grid	0							1
70	Hidden Movement	0							1
71	Hidden Roles	0							1
72	Hidden Victory Points	0							1
73	Highest-Lowest Scoring	0							1
74	Hot Potato	0							1
75	I Cut, You Choose	0							1
76	Impulse Movement	0							1
77	Income	3					1			Similar to automatic resource growth, income is "generated." Thus we ask: where does this money come from, and how is it earned? We often find that this income is not in fact generated but rather alienated from the laborers working to actually create this value. This alienation we consider exploitation.
78	Increase Value of Unchosen Resources	3					1
79	Induction	0							1
80	Interrupts	0							1
81	Investment	3					1
82	Kill Steal	0							1
83	King of the Hill	2		Mountain Goats		1				This is essentially area majority/influence.
84	Ladder Climbing	0							1
85	Layering	0							1
86	Legacy Game	0							1
87	Line Drawing	0							1
88	Line of Sight	4						1
89	Loans	3					1
90	Lose a Turn	0							1
91	Mancala	0							1
92	Map Addition	1			1					This is the archetypal explore.1 mechanic
93	Map Deformation	0							1
94	Map Reduction	0							1
95	Market	0							1
96	Matching	0							1
97	Measurement Movement	0							1
98	Melding and Splaying	0							1
99	Memory	0							1
100	Minimap Resolution	4						1