Dominion Strategy Forum
Dominion => Puzzles and Challenges => Solo Challenges => Topic started by: Titandrake on June 29, 2012, 06:50:05 pm
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Kingdom: Gardens, Chapel, Scout, Fishing Village, Herbalist, Peddler, Fairgrounds, Trader, Envoy, Swindler, !Platinum
Challenge: End the game.
Okay, so here's how this goes. I have a list of goals to reach, each of which is worth some amount of points. PM your logs to me. I'll figure out how many goals you satisfied. At the end, whoever has the most points wins.
Do you get to know what the criteria is? No.
Is this completely arbitrary? Yes.
Basically, think of this as me attempting to translate Bastard Mafia into a Solo Challenge.
This only works if people actually submit logs, so please just mess around and send stuff to me. Deadline is Monday, June 2, 12 PM PST.
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Going to be tricky to make that June 2nd deadline.
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Are we at least allowed to know how many criteria there are? Am I shooting in the dark for one of five different goals or one of fifty?
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Are we at least allowed to know how many criteria there are? Am I shooting in the dark for one of five different goals or one of fifty?
If this is the Bastard Mafia of Solo Challenges, you'll get to know nothing and You'll like it.
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Going to be tricky to make that June 2nd deadline.
I'm still unsure what the deadline should be on this.
Young Nick: The great thing about this is that I can make stuff up along the way. There are 10 right now. There are certainly going to be more than that by the time of the deadline.
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I'm still unsure what the deadline should be on this.
Sorry for being snarky. I meant that June 2nd was around a month ago. :)
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Wow I am terrible with dates.
Tell you what, the deadline is June 2nd of next year. But I'm going to actually calculate stuff before that.
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So anyway, I got 3 entries.
I'm pushing the deadline to June 3rd of next year because of the forum downtime.
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I really don't want to triple-post this, but I don't have much of a choice in the matter.
In 3rd place is Schneau, who scored 11 points.
In 2nd place is Tdog, who scored 12 points.
In 1st place is shark_bait, who decided to take initiative and submit 3 logs instead of 1. I averaged out the scores between the 3 games, which turned out to be 16 points.
sjelkjd got 6 points because I barely rewarded Gardens at all.
Logs:
Schenau: http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201206/29/game-20120629-183011-463eb60f.html
Tdog: http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201207/03/game-20120703-054337-832caf69.html
shark_bait: http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201207/02/game-20120702-083359-dfb9fe57.html
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201207/02/game-20120702-083615-27671e07.html
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201207/02/game-20120702-084037-567359cf.html
sjelkjd: http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201206/29/game-20120629-193319-d75b5270.html
Criteria:
Resigns on turn 1: +15 points
Resigns on any turn besides 1: +10 points
Ends in 15 turns or less: +1 point
Ends in 20 turns or less: +1 point
Ends in 25 turns or less: +1 point
Ends in 50 turns or more: +3 points
Ends the game with negative VP: +3 points
Ends the game with less than 10 VP: +1 point
Trash has 11 or more cards: +2 points
Bought at least 1 copy of every Kingdom card: +1 point
Bought at least 1 copy of every available card: +2 points
Bought at least 1 copy of every Kingdom card except Fairgrounds: +3 points
End game with a Gardens worth at least 3 VP: +1 point
End game with a Fairgrounds worth at least 6 VP: +2 points
End game with a Gardens worth 0 VP: +4 points
End game with a Fairgrounds worth 0 VP: +4 points
Buy Chapel: +1 point
Never buys Chapel: +2 points
Plays pure Big Money: +4 points
Has more than 3 VP by the end of turn 5: +2 points
Has 3 estates in deck at the end of turn 4: +1 point
Has a deck of 1 card at any point in the game: +3 points
Buys a Duchy: +1 point
Buys an Estate: +1 point
Ends the game on Provinces: +1 point
Buys out the Duchies: +3 points
Buys out the Estates: +2 points
Isotropic name starts with a vowel: +2 points
Buys a Scout: +3 points
Buys a Swindler: +1 points
Never buys Fishing Village: +2 points
For each differently named card in the deck, there is an even number of that card at the end of the game: +2 points
For each differently named card in the deck, there is an odd number of that card at the end of the game: +3 points
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So, basically, resigning on turn one would have won you the challenge.
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Resigning after spending over 50 turns doing lots of random stuff that was not at all apparent would have given you the most points. I hadn't bothered to figure out the maximum points yet.
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Would I have gotten the vowel bonus? "Y" is sometimes a vowel, but in this context, it isn't really. I propose you retroactively add one more criterion:
isotropic name begins with a letter that can be seen as a vowel or consonant: +1000 points
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Oh no, i forgot to send in my game. Can i still do it? I'll even count the points myself.
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201207/05/game-20120705-091915-762aab67.html (http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201207/05/game-20120705-091915-762aab67.html)
Criteria:
Resigns on turn 1: +15 points
Resigns on any turn besides 1: +10 points 10/10
Ends in 15 turns or less: +1 point
Ends in 20 turns or less: +1 point
Ends in 25 turns or less: +1 point
Ends in 50 turns or more: +3 points 3/13
Ends the game with negative VP: +3 points 3/16
Ends the game with less than 10 VP: +1 point 1/17
Trash has 11 or more cards: +2 points 2/19
Bought at least 1 copy of every Kingdom card: +1 point 1/20
Bought at least 1 copy of every available card: +2 points 2/22
Bought at least 1 copy of every Kingdom card except Fairgrounds: +3 points does this mean i mustnt buy fairgrounds?
End game with a Gardens worth at least 3 VP: +1 point
End game with a Fairgrounds worth at least 6 VP: +2 points
End game with a Gardens worth 0 VP: +4 points 4/26
End game with a Fairgrounds worth 0 VP: +4 points 4/30
Buy Chapel: +1 point 1/31
Never buys Chapel: +2 points
Plays pure Big Money: +4 points
Has more than 3 VP by the end of turn 5: +2 points 2/33
Has 3 estates in deck at the end of turn 4: +1 point 1/34
Has a deck of 1 card at any point in the game: +3 points 3/37
Buys a Duchy: +1 point 1/38
Buys an Estate: +1 point 1/39
Ends the game on Provinces: +1 point
Buys out the Duchies: +3 points 3/42
Buys out the Estates: +2 points 2/44
Isotropic name starts with a vowel: +2 points 2/46
Buys a Scout: +3 points 3/49
Buys a Swindler: +1 points 1/50
Never buys Fishing Village: +2 points
For each differently named card in the deck, there is an even number of that card at the end of the game: +2 points
For each differently named card in the deck, there is an odd number of that card at the end of the game: +3 points 3/53
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http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201207/05/game-20120705-091915-762aab67.html
This puts the date at July 5, 2012 i.e. today
I applaud you for getting the most points possible using the criteria, but part of the challenge was doing the games without knowing the criteria for scoring points. This is where the comparison to the Bastard mafia games comes from in which no one has any idea what is actually going on. ;)
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http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201207/05/game-20120705-091915-762aab67.html
This puts the date at July 5, 2012 i.e. today
I applaud you for getting the most points possible using the criteria, but part of the challenge was doing the games without knowing the criteria for scoring points. This is where the comparison to the Bastard mafia games comes from in which no one has any idea what is actually going on. ;)
damn, you got me ;(
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heh heh... I've got to defend my winning entries! :D
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shark_bait, the deadline is June 3rd, 2013.
However, all posted criteria is now null and void, so now you get 0 points. Yay!
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Hmmmm... Let me think a second, you're making this so hard. But I have a solution!
If I participate in Galzria's Back to the Future Challenge, thus utilizing time travel, I can go forward in time to June 4, 2013. I will steal the almanac of "Bastard" challenges that you do along with any changes you make to them. Then, when I return to present day, I will present myself with this almanac thus ensuring my rise to power in the world of bastard solo challenges making myself supreme dictator with every other person a subject of mine! *insert diabolical laughter*
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O-Watno is a pretty good name though.