by sigmazero13
Basically, while you can tally things during the game to make it easier to see where you are, all that really matters is how many structures you actually have on the board at the end of the game. So if you upgrade a building, the number of structures doesn't change. Only building a new mine will really change it.The starting mines do count. This means the Xenos have a slight advantage. If playing 3- or 4-players without the Xenos, though, since everyone has the same starting mines it doesn't matter, though. But if playing 2-players (including solo with Automa), it does matter because the "dummy" marker was set presumably taking into account the free 2 mines.