Re: Useful Boxes (Re: is a size of boardgame's box important to you ?)

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> The size isn't important to me; the effectiveness of the box in
> storing components without a lot of wasted space is.  A well-designed
> plastic tray gets a lot of good will from me.  One of the most
> useful and dense tray designs is Big City, though sometimes popping
> the thing you need out of its slot is a little tricky.

A trick I picked up from a poster either here or on Spielfrieks was to push
out the little indentations in each slot. The buildings come out much more
easily. Before that, I had removed the trays from the box and had bagged the
different buildings. It was just too hard to get them out and the inserts
did not fit easily into the box.

> I bought some little food storage boxes at the grocery store for
> Age of Mythology that allow the six different armies to have nice hard
> containers, and still leaves room for the cards and other bits.
> In this case, the Eagle Games uberbox was a Good Thing.

I have added the different player aids for AoM from the Geek as well as a
set of Chessex dice for each culture and a d4 for each culture to keep track
of the ages. Of course, I have a bag for the production tiles, too. It is
the game that I have done the most customizing for, I believe. In the
pictures on the Geek, someone has used the inserts from Starfarers of Catan.
I haven't broken down and cannibalized those yet, even though I have played
AoM far more often than Starfarers.

Paul Sauberer