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Dominion League / Re: Season 13 - Results
« on: March 17, 2016, 10:19:34 pm »
C2: dudeabides 5.25 Limetime 0.75

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Dominion League / Re: Season 13 - Signups
« on: February 02, 2016, 05:34:07 pm »
Back /in for season 13 (and hopefully more stable so I don't have to pull in and out every other season)

America / LA
2.71828.....

I hate it when you pull in and out, e.

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Dominion League / Re: Season 13 - Signups
« on: February 02, 2016, 05:32:48 pm »
I'm baa-aack. 

Returning to the lead league. 
username: dudeabides
timezone: US/New York
I was last in the league during Season 9, when I earned demotion from A division.

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Dominion League / Re: Season 9 - Announcing Livestreams
« on: July 15, 2015, 03:12:45 pm »
Streaming my match against dudeabides tomorrow at 19:30 UTC.
I'm streaming my match against SCSN today in 20 minutes:
http://www.twitch.tv/dudeabides42

Hopefully the stream is better today than it was on Sunday against DG.

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Dominion League / Re: Season 9 - Announcing Livestreams
« on: July 12, 2015, 01:42:28 pm »
I will be streaming my match in A division against DG at 19:00 UTC (3:00 PM Eastern time). 1 hour and 18 minutes from now.

http://www.twitch.tv/dudeabides42

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Dominion League / Re: Championship match discussion
« on: June 27, 2015, 07:34:29 pm »
I think it could make a perceptive difference just by adding a highlight for the winner of the Championship Match if it isn't the league winner. 

By this I mean, if dudeabides wins the match 4-2, he would be recognized as the winner of the Championship Match even though Mic still wins the league.  I don't know if that adds a significant amount of incentive to the 2nd place player in this situation or not.  I think I would personally enjoy playing the high profile games if I ever made it there even without any chance for recognition. This at least give the player something to "play for" at least until the Champion gets 3(.5?) games.

If I beat Mic 4-2 tomorrow, I view myself as a champion regardless of how the rest of y'all view me. At the end of the day, I play Dominion for fun. If the winner of a game were simply the player who had more fun, well, I win 95% of my games, and I'm the top-ranked player :). The 5% of the time I lose on that metric is when I play Big Money to avoid demotion in the league.

Lastly, simply playing in the CM is reward enough for me. 

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Dominion League / Re: Championship match discussion
« on: June 27, 2015, 10:59:43 am »
Truthfully, I see both sides of the argument, and I don't have strong opinions about it.

The player who dominates during the regular season league matches plays better overall over the course of the 30 games of the season.  In this view, the championship match is just an extension of the season, 6 more games to give the player who did second best during the season a chance to play 6 more games to overtake the regular season champion.

Another way to look at the championship match is that it has nothing to do with the regular season, except that the players playing in it are determined by their performance during the regular season.  The player who barely avoids demotion and happens to make it to the championship match has the opportunity to heroically rise from near-demotion to become the champion by being given an even playing field on which to duel with the dominant regular season player.

The latter sounds like the stuff from which movies are made. "It's the... eye of the tiger, it's the thrill of the fight, rising up to the challenge of our rivals..."

It would be interesting to abandon the championship match and have a tournament to determine a post-season champion.  The regular season leaders in each of 4 C divisions play one match each to determine which 2 go on to play the regular season leaders in the 2 B Divisions.  Then, the 2 winners of those matches go on to play A regular season 1st and 2nd place, and the winner of those matches plays for the championship.  This would be a total of 4 rounds of play.

This totally defeats Stef's whole purpose for the league, if I remember it correctly, which was to have a competitive structure where poor performance on one day doesn't end your chances.  But it would be interesting.

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Dominion League / Re: Championship match discussion
« on: June 27, 2015, 09:44:03 am »
I agree with anyone who thinks that I should start with a clean slate against Mic tomorrow  ;)

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Goko Dominion Online / Re: Payment models
« on: June 23, 2015, 10:01:42 pm »

Dude.  The joke was basically handed to you on a platter.

"The card formerly known as 'Prince'"

Freaking funny.  I did a version with the "Prince" text in the title of the card replaced with the symbol,

 but technically Prince is now "Prince" again, aka "the artist formerly known as that funky symbol."


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Goko Dominion Online / Re: Payment models
« on: June 23, 2015, 09:57:35 pm »
...It has not made anywhere near enough to pay for one guy's salary for the time period they've been working on it.
That is not a good sign.  At some point, someone will take a look at the burn rate for cash, and decide to quit throwing good money after bad.  I wonder by what internal metric they are measuring what they might view as progress.
Goko's metric was the average number people in the King's Court lobby.  Making Fun has destroyed Goko in that regard.

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Goko Dominion Online / Re: Payment models
« on: June 23, 2015, 10:41:23 am »
The key, of course, for those parties interested in making money with Online Dominion lies not in what they charge the consumers to play the game, but instead in corporate sponsorship. So many other online gaming companies rely on advertising to make money.  Dominion has a superior way to receive money from companies.  It involves slight modifications of the card names and images in order to work, but I've taken the first steps with two cards. Introducing (drum roll) the Citi Bank and the Whole Foods Market Market.

 

There are plenty of other synergies between corporate entities and Dominion cards.  For example, the Check Into Cash Moneylender, the Busch Gardens, and the Courtyard by Marriott.  Prince might be willing to sponsor a card:



Corporate sponsorship is always the answer to the question of "How do I make money at this?"  Just look at every major sport. 

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Dominion League / Re: Season 8 - Standings
« on: June 22, 2015, 10:38:39 am »
Stef, I delievered on not winning 3.5.  I won 5.  So that makes it Mic and me in the championship?

Nice to see an all-American championship  :D

Edit:  I'm disappointed that you didn't play out the "What if dude wins 5 games?" scenario.  You just stopped when I had won enough games for you to be safe from demotion ;)  After our match, Tao Chen wished me good luck in the championship match, and I was like "What the #3!! is this crazy person talking about?"  I was so focused on not getting demoted that I hadn't considered the possibility of playing in the championship.

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Dominion League / Re: Season 8 - Results
« on: June 22, 2015, 10:36:38 am »
A: dudeabides 5 - 1 Tao Chen

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That post says, "...when it is live, which should be in a few hours (mid-afternoon Pacific time). On that page you will see a big green button to download Dominion for PC, Mac and Linux."

It's now late-afternoon Pacific time, and I'm still waiting for that big green button  :'(

Literally seconds after I made this post, the big green button appeared! The universe is conspiring to shower me with blessings  :)

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Dominion League / Re: Season 7 - Standings
« on: April 26, 2015, 10:51:16 pm »
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If Emeric-lio end up in 2.5-3.5 then Rabid and dudeabides are exactly tied

And since my username starts with a "d" and Rabid's with an "r," I end up on top if lio takes exactly 3.5 :)

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Game Reports / Worst Game Ever… Seriously
« on: March 10, 2015, 01:37:14 pm »
I fall flat on my face in this game.  Seriously the worst game I've ever played, and possibly the worst game anyone has ever played.  I'd like to blame it on luck.  But it was also me being stubborn and failing to adapt when my plan went awry.
Kingdom:
Transmute, Loan, Death Cart, Marauder, Scout, Minion, Mountebank, Outpost, Witch, Peddler

So my idea here was to open double Loan, buy Death Cart with first $4.  I get perfect luck on Turn 3, drawing 2 Coppers, 2 Loans and an Estate.  I trash 2 Coppers and get a Death Cart.  I'm not planning to buy Silvers, because I want a super thin deck.  I'm hoping to connect Death Cart with one of the Ruins to get a Mountebank and then get into Minions.

By Turn 12, I have only 9 cards in my deck, yet I still haven't connected Death Cart with either of the 2 Ruins.  I get frustrated and trash Death Cart to get a Minion.  My ruins are a Ruined Village and a Ruined Market.  I'm now hoping to connect Ruined Village and Minion, discard to draw Ruined Market and my Loan and Copper.  This would enable me to buy a Peddler.  I finally do this on Turn 31.  I went 18 turns without buying anything. 

Here's the log if you want to laugh at how terribly things went for me.
http://www.gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?/20150310/log.50ab1a76e4b02bf1d5a3c855.1426007165773.txt

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Dominion League / Re: Season 6 - Results
« on: March 01, 2015, 03:29:16 pm »
B2: dudeabides 5 vs. Emeric 1

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Tournaments and Events / Re: Dominion Team World Cup II (Results Only)
« on: February 05, 2015, 08:33:05 am »
dudeabides (USA A) 4-2 moharimo (Japan B)

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Tournaments and Events / Re: Dominion Team World Cup II (Results Only)
« on: February 04, 2015, 05:24:55 pm »
dudeabides (USA A) 6-0 LaLight (Russia)

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Game Reports / Best Swindler luck ever?
« on: January 18, 2015, 11:58:52 am »
I really feel for AdamH on this one.  The kingdom is:
Vineyard, Fool's Gold, Swindler, Urchin, Alchemist, Spy, Mandarin, Upgrade, Hoard, Nobles

Clearly, the strategy here is to convert an Urchin (or two) to Mercenary(ies) to thin your deck. 

I open Swindler/Urchin to Adam's Urchin/Urchin.

T3: I have 3 Coppers and 2 Estates, buy 2nd Urchin.  I draw Urchin/Swindler.  Adam plays one Urchin, does not connect, buys 3rd Urchin.
T4: I play Urchin/Swindler, get a Merc.  Swindler reveals Urchin, and I turn it into a Silver; and buy Potion.  Adam has 3 Coppers/2 Estates, buys 4th Urchin (but only has 3 thanks to my Swindling).
T5: I buy Alchemist, Adam doesn't connect, buys Swindler.
T6: I play Swindler, hit Urchin again, give Adam a Silver.  Adam plays Urchin, draws Silver (which would have been an Urchin, were it not for my Swindler), and concedes.

Here's the log:
http://www.gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?/20150118/log.5085f5130cf270038ff92212.1421597116880.txt

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Dominion League / Re: timezones
« on: December 10, 2014, 10:37:36 am »
Name: dudeabides
Timezone: America/New_York

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Tournaments and Events / Re: Dominion Team World Cup II Signups
« on: December 05, 2014, 07:21:30 pm »
dudeabides
USA
All sets and promos

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Dominion League / Re: Standings & Results
« on: October 05, 2014, 03:56:43 pm »
A:  dudeabides - Stef: 3.5 - 2.5

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Dominion League / Re: Standings & Results
« on: September 24, 2014, 03:26:38 pm »
A:  dudeabides 5 --- Rabid 1

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Dominion League / Re: Standings & Results
« on: September 20, 2014, 04:10:10 pm »
A: dudeabides - Monsieur X:  4-2

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