 At the start of the game, 12 cards of each resource type are shuffled together to form a reserve pile.If this reserve is exhausted at any point in the game, six cards of each resource type (ten in a 5-6 player game) are shuffled together to form the reserve pile.To begin a game, each player begins by placing either a colony or spaceport in a gorilla fashion (similar to the setup in "Settlers").