So there are several points where chips provide tangible benefits to the gaming experience. I'd put it as: 1. easier to handle - when you're exchanging money left and right during the course of a game, it's much easier to drop a few chips to the banker or another player than having to riffle through paper money to get the required amount. 2. more durable - I can use them 50 times, 100 times and not see the poker chips fade. Try that with paper money and I've found that it just doesn't hold up. 3. easier to count - maybe it's my experience with poker chips, but I can look at a stack and have a pretty good idea for the value of a poker chip stack. Using a chip's coloration and the edge spots go a long way to making value calculations go pretty quick. Hope this helps!

@@Myboardgameguides what I mean is, is the feel of a more expensive type of chip that important when playing boardgames? I understand that the cheap platic types have a lot of cons but a sharp edge of a composite type of chip is not that important when playing a boardgame.

@@UnCompress_ It honestly isn't. Adding a nicer set of chips is a luxury which, if you enjoy having nice things, is something you might want to splurge on. But are the more expensive chips functionally better than a composite? No, both serve the exact same purpose. Does one feel nicer to the touch than the other? For sure. If that's important to you, then you might want to aim for the more expensive chips. Otherwise, there's no need to spend more than necessary.

That helps. Another is to look at which game requires the most money and buy one chip set that can handle all of that. For me, it is the 300-chip set I've put together to handle 1830. Maybe if I play a bigger 18xx, I may need to make some additions, but I'm pretty happy with what I've got. :)

Wow! If you have 300 Poker Chips for 1830, that's 120 more than comes with the Original Game and can also be used as an official Poker Chip set for Cash Games.

You can get 39mm X 3mm Iron Clays Poker Chips for about .60USD per Chip. But, I am working with Sun-Fly Casino Equipment in Guangzhou, China. They have the best selection and prices I have ever seen from a Poker Chip Manufacturer and their 43mm X 3mm Chips are only .63USD.

It's a great set. Inexpensive and usable. Glad they've held up and served you well!

Thanks for the tip. I'll keep that in mind for future videos.

I don't have firsthand experience with Ceramics, so I can't really comment, but the ones I've seen look colorful and fun to play with. Cost for a good set will probably is somewhere in the ballpark of $0.70 a chip (notably, the Nevada Jacks and Tiki Kings). Low end chips might suffer from spinniness when you stack them up or they might not be as flat and will rock back and forth. Some also have dimples on the side, so keep that in mind as well. Hope this helps!

Yep, sounds very informative, thanks.

Hope the game went well for you! And that you're excited to play again!

Glad you found it helpful! By helping people build the foundation properly, hopefully more will stick around to experience all that FCM has to offer without feeling the sting of a turn 2 mistake that keeps them out of contention for the rest of the game.

@@Myboardgameguides Absolutely! It can be a very harsh game indeed...

24 is the goal because 27 is the average. The graph in the video is just data. You draw a conclusion based on analysis of the data.

Thank you! Glad you were able to find this useful. Hopefully I'll be able to find time to make more of these.

@@Myboardgameguides You are a superb youtuber! And your voice is ASMR gold.

It’s hard to see from the low resolution but almost all the cities are misplaced. But from the large circle extends a line to show you where the city in reality lies. It was presumably done to make the board functional. Otherwise it’d be impossible to keep cubes, meeples and stations separate. It can be quite difficult as it is.