I need help with some sort of bidding system for players to try to gain influence over certain parts of the land...
Here's what I got, very summed up for the sake of the question:
The map is set up with tiles, a lot like Settlers. The players will earn influence tokens throughout the game. Each token is identical on the back but has different values on the top. The game tiles might have certain benefits for the player that has influence over it. If there is a certain tile that several players want, the would bid any 1 of their influence tokens (since they are identical and everyone bids 1 token, there isn't a way to tell what they bid) then the player who bid the most gets the benefit of that tile.
Here's the problem: I want players to be able to bid on as few or as many tiles as they want in any 1 round because depending on the dynamics of the game there could be several tiles that are of interest to multiple players. This would mean that it should make sense for each player to place 1 token on each of the tiles in question, but how would you keep track of who bid what? There could be a set of color coded tokens for each player but that limits how many tokens a player could earn or there would have to be way too many tokens since you'd potentially have 6 players.
Thoughts? I hope this was clear enough to understand my dilema, but I know I didn't explain the actual game, but what matters is the basic mechanic that is needed. Thanks!
