Folded Space - Concordia & Venus & Salsa

Really cheap with some free space to add Concordia salsa expansion. Need assembly with glue. Can't complaint on the way everything is organized. It does a great job and is light weight.

As the other reviewer mentioned, the base design of the insert leaves something to be desired. The holders for coins and resources should have had additional separators.

The good news is, with a ruler and a utility knife, there is enough material left over to measure and cut out separators, and glue them into place. This greatly increases the utility of the insert. If you go down this route, ensure to make the top sections of the resource trays larger, as brick and wheat require more room. Slightly shorter dividers are preferable to ones that are taller than ones taller than the walls. Do a dry-fit test before gluing.

With these changes in hand, the insert is quite good. I'm able to fit 3 maps inside my Venus box, with slight lid-lift.

I have other Folded Space organizers - for Clans of Caledonia, Rising Sun, and Rising Sun Daimyo Box. Of the four, this one seems to be the least well-organized. While I would consider it to be better than keeping everything in baggies, I feel like the way components are divided was not as well executed. Firstly, the resource tokens are grouped together into flat trays, which makes it easy to get the resources out during play, but forces them to be combined within some of the trays. If they had been further subdivided, it would have allowed the wheat to be discrete from the wine, and likewise with the iron and brick. Similarly, there was no division between the A, B, C, and D cities, where the tray where they are kept should have been sized so they could be kept sorted (with space for expansions), and possibly cutouts at either end of the tray to make it easier to lift them out. In sum, the product is okay, but I feel like there were missed opportunities to make it better.

Positive: it's very light, inexpensive and assembly 'could' be easy if things are punched properly.

Negative:

Not sure if we got a lemon but not everything was punched so an exacto knife was needed. Then a number of the insert holes were well off center. The exterior plastic bit was already separating away from the foam. Quite poor quality.

Next the design itself is puzzling. It requires you to store the building tiles all mixed together - so each time you're going to play you have to sort through the A, B, C etc. City tiles. Hardly 'organized'. It also needs you to store the goods mixed together which is odd as there's more than enough space for each good to have its own compartment by just adding one extra piece of foam.

I guess you get what you pay for. Throwing ours out and using a GMT tray to store the city tiles and goods. A bag for each player colour. Better storage, costs less and makes the game faster to setup.