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Dominion => Puzzles and Challenges => Topic started by: Personman on June 18, 2011, 09:33:50 pm

Title: Max Points From Green Cards
Post by: Personman on June 18, 2011, 09:33:50 pm

Don't know the answer yet, but I think it's a pretty interesting question: what's the most points you can have at the end of a solitaire isotropic game, disregarding VP tokens?


Like I said, I don't know the answer yet, but here's something to consider:There are 8 Kingdom victory cards. A spread normally has only 10 cards in it.


Edit: I've got an answer, which I worked out with the help of a friend (who will no doubt be named Psly4mne if he ever registers here, which he should...). We have a google doc explaining it here (https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=17DIZFyDy3ddnviN4pgIqF2aGXimRueNT_2fLTZtip18).

Title: Re: Max Points From Green Cards
Post by: Elyv on June 18, 2011, 10:19:38 pm

Quote from: Personman on June 18, 2011, 09:33:50 pm

There are 9 Kingdom victory cards. A spread normally has only 10 cards in it.

I can only find 8, not sure what I'm missing.
I can get 909 points.

Kingdom: King's Court, Harem, Nobles, Fairgrounds, Duke, Bridge, Island, Gardens, Black Market, Great Hall(bane), Vineyard
BM decK: Young Witch, Tournament, 23 other actions that give +actions/+cards/+buy

Points:
163 from Colony/Province/Duchy/Estate(including starting 3)
56 for Harem/Nobles/Island/Great Hall
64 for Dukes
216 for Vineyards(83 actions)
160 for Fairgrounds(50 unique cards)
256 for Gardens(158+35+94+30+3 curses=320 cards)
-3 curses
909 total

Title: Re: Max Points From Green Cards
Post by: rogerclee on June 18, 2011, 10:40:34 pm

It's better to have actions than Harems.

Title: Re: Max Points From Green Cards
Post by: Axe Knight on June 18, 2011, 10:42:18 pm

I'd love to see an Isotropic records page, like the highest number of victory points actually realized, and the most money in a turn, most buys, etc. 

Title: Re: Max Points From Green Cards
Post by: WanderingWinder on June 18, 2011, 10:47:06 pm

Quote from: rogerclee on June 18, 2011, 10:40:34 pm

It's better to have actions than Harems.

Same for great hall, which should be in the BM deck for maximization - there are only 8 GHs as opposed to 10 of the other card, which matters to Gardens and Vineyards. Also MAYBE Nobles, but there I actually need to do specific math I'm too lazy for.

Title: Re: Max Points From Green Cards
Post by: Personman on June 18, 2011, 10:53:12 pm

Elyv -- close, but we've got you beat!


WanderingWinder -- turns out GH is better in the spread, though barely. Nobles is not even close: it's 32 points for the nobles vs. 18 points for a random action.

Quote from: Elyv

I can only find 8, not sure what I'm missing.

For future readers -- my original smalltext had said there were 9 Kingdom Victory cards, which was wrong.

Title: Re: Max Points From Green Cards
Post by: Elyv on June 19, 2011, 02:47:24 am

Quote from: Personman on June 18, 2011, 10:53:12 pm

Elyv -- close, but we've got you beat!

With rogerclee's modification, I get up to 930. Is that enough?

Edit: Oh I see you've answered that in the OP now.