How to go back to the - Founding Fathers?

[ashley26ph2003]

How to go back to the - Founding Fathers?

To the one I skip because I want to get the best
I have extra points and any way to get them?

 

[dalgo]

Once you turn down a FF you can't get him again.

 

[Wheldrake]

Actually, I'm not sure that's strictly true. Certainly, once he's been recruited by a competing colonial power, he's no longer available. But I think, once you go off the chart and get all the top end FFs, it cycles back through the guys that nobody picked up. Not sure about this, but I seem to recall seeing some early guys popping up late in the game on occasion.

Cheers, --- Wheldrake

 

[ashley26ph2003]

I just experience them going back again but this time why does
I have more points and it too long to have the cycle back again?

 

[dalgo]

The manual says 'You can refuse a Founding Father if you would like to pursue a later one, leaving your points intact. If you do so that Father will never offer to join you again.'

I have never had a FF come round a second time in any of my games, and in some games I have built every FF point possible - there is a limit and if you have your colonies building FF points when you reach it you are asked to build something else.

 

[catbird4]

FF do recycle unless they are selected by someone else. I was up to my ears in cotton so I let Cyrus McCormick go by. He cycled through again, much later, so I took him.

 

[Wheldrake]

I'm glad somebody else has seen the "recycling" of unchosen FFs. I agree that the game *claims* they are lost forever, but in practice, in long games, I've seen them come back, as Catbird states.

Cheers, --- Wheldrakee

 

[ashley26ph2003]

I cant wait to the cycle because the higher my points the longer they come back until no one can get them