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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Anything coming in 2021?

« on: May 18, 2021, 09:40:53 pm »

Dominion has a terrific amount of variety already. So, even more than new sets, I'm hoping for revised versions of the existing sets that could use it (Seaside 2.0?), because Base 2.0 and Intrigue 2.0 were such great improvements. Added bonus: if Alchemy 2.0 comes out before the long-awaited mobile app, the (mystery) developers might not need to program Possession!

Me: Mom, can we get Alchemy 2.0?
Mom: We have Alchemy 2.0 at home
Alchemy 2.0 at home: http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=11402.msg395070#msg395070

I should have known where that link went before clicking it. Dominion-rickrolled.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: New online version of Dominion (with neural-network based AI) from Temple Gates

« on: May 18, 2021, 09:27:20 pm »

Also... I could swear that somewhere on this very forum, DXV said that if you try to judge values of cards based on their pieces, you're going to fail, since the game was designed at least partly to not let that happen. Anyone have a link? (Likely not, forum searches are really difficult.)

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: New online version of Dominion (with neural-network based AI) from Temple Gates

« on: May 18, 2021, 08:35:44 pm »

I’ve been playing Dominion casually, in person, for years. I’ve probably played 100, 200, maybe more games.

So we're talking about an AI that can beat a player who has played 200 casual games of Dominion. Depending on the sets included, even BM+X might be able to do that.

I came very close to actually laughing out loud at that paragraph. Like, my dude, have you tested the AI against players who've played 1000 times more games than that?

That having been said, you also don't want the AI to destroy everyone every game, but I'm certain they can tune down the settings.

"200, maybe more, games." Hilarious.

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General Discussion / A new source of Blue Dogs...

« on: February 14, 2021, 06:10:17 pm »

https://www.newsweek.com/blue-dogs-chemical-plant-dzerzhinsk-russia-photos-1568947

Sadly it seems the dogs have been rolling around in something toxic

Edit: Also, hi everyone! LTNS.

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Introductions / Re: *tap tap* Is this thing still on?

« on: July 06, 2019, 04:32:30 pm »

You were gone so long that I passed you in the post-count rankings!

Oh no!  Whatever will I do?

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Rules Questions / Re: Throne Room playing Band of Misfits becoming Amulet

« on: July 06, 2019, 04:31:41 pm »

I like Band of Misfits literally turning into the card, rules weirdness be damned.

(I also don't really want to buy Dark Ages 3rd Edition for one changed card)

I like the idea of a card that literally changes when you play the physical card.  You were holding a BOM, it hits the table, bam, it's a Conspirator, it goes to your discard, whoa, it's BOM again!

Someone with good close-up magic skills could probably do this.

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Introductions / *tap tap* Is this thing still on?

« on: July 02, 2019, 07:49:07 pm »

Hey, does this still work?  Long time no see...

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Dominion FAQ / Re: What's the best card?

« on: December 10, 2018, 03:21:36 pm »

Likewise with a general powerhouse as King's Court (KC)- if you want many Treasures in your deck you might want to skip it altogether (Happens perhaps 10-7% of the games it's in).

ISWYDT

But probably the event Donate comes closest to be the most powerful thing in Dominion. King's Court for the most powerful Kingdom card.

I would also hold Donate up as probably the quintessential "must buy" card.  I have never won a game where I skipped it and the opponent didn't.  I have never lost a game where the opponent skipped it and I didn't.

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General Discussion / Re: Maths thread.

« on: November 24, 2018, 05:42:41 pm »

How would you even start solving it? I haven't graduated high school yet, but I know at least up through Calc II, so I figurde I would be qualified to post in this thread.

But still, I have no idea how to even start.

You probably have no chance (I certainly didn't).

https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-find-the-positive-integer-solutions-to-frac-x-y+z-+-frac-y-z+x-+-frac-z-x+y-4

You may have seen such meme images before. They are always pure click-bait garbage: “95% of MIT graduates couldn’t solve this!”, where “this” is some inane, or ill-defined, or trivial brain teaser.

This one is not. The meme is a clever, or wicked, joke. Roughly 99.999995% of the people don’t stand a chance at solving it, and that includes a good number of mathematicians at leading universities who just don’t happen to be number theorists. It is solvable, yes, but it's really, genuinely hard.

Oh man.  That was actually a brilliant explanation.  I now know more about elliptic curves than I ever had before.

Your comment about elliptic curves should be marked as a spoiler.

I mean... this is a problem that's basically unsolvable by any other means, and my spoiler is hardly a hint.  I don't think anyone here was actually going to "solve" this--that was the whole point!

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Game Reports / Re: Dear My Opponent: I am Sorry

« on: November 23, 2018, 01:41:22 am »

Dear Opponent,

I'm sorry I had to zip away from the computer and didn't get a chance to resign.  I know it sucks to wait for someone to return.  But at least you got the win!

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Neat and potentially useful card interactions

« on: November 20, 2018, 11:16:28 pm »

Another interesting one today:

Canal/Seer

Seer can be a super-Lab if you have a lot of mid-cost cards, but it can't draw itself or other $5 cards.  But with your cube on Canal, all cards cost $1 less, from the start of your turn.  While this would in theory work with *any* cost reducer, this one doesn't require you to get a different card in play before your Seers can draw their compatriots.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Neat and potentially useful card interactions

« on: November 16, 2018, 04:32:30 pm »

Searched the thread and didn't find it.  This one is extra-neat (though not extra-useful) because the cards are just two letter-steps apart despite having completely different etymologies!*

Patron + Patrol

Patrol can reveal Patrons, gaining you possibly multiple Coffers if you have enough Patrons.  You'll want a village or two to take full advantage, but you can stockpile Villagers on turns where this doesn't work out.

*Patron comes (eventually) from Latin pater (father) so from PIE *p[h2]ter (father), patrol is probably from pate (foot) so eventually from PIE *ped-

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Rules Questions / Black Market + Patron

« on: November 16, 2018, 04:19:26 pm »

Black Market tells you to reveal cards... as far as I can tell it's the only way to reveal a card that hasn't been gained by someone in the game. (Feel free to correct me on that!)

If I reveal Patron from the Black Market, do I get a Coffers?  It seems straightforward but it also seems incredibly silly to get it.

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General Discussion / Re: Maths thread.

« on: November 14, 2018, 08:18:33 pm »

How would you even start solving it? I haven't graduated high school yet, but I know at least up through Calc II, so I figurde I would be qualified to post in this thread.

But still, I have no idea how to even start.

You probably have no chance (I certainly didn't).

https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-find-the-positive-integer-solutions-to-frac-x-y+z-+-frac-y-z+x-+-frac-z-x+y-4

You may have seen such meme images before. They are always pure click-bait garbage: “95% of MIT graduates couldn’t solve this!”, where “this” is some inane, or ill-defined, or trivial brain teaser.

This one is not. The meme is a clever, or wicked, joke. Roughly 99.999995% of the people don’t stand a chance at solving it, and that includes a good number of mathematicians at leading universities who just don’t happen to be number theorists. It is solvable, yes, but it's really, genuinely hard.

Oh man.  That was actually a brilliant explanation.  I now know more about elliptic curves than I ever had before.

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Variants and Fan Cards / The monster in my dreams...

« on: November 12, 2018, 05:32:08 pm »

Dominion showed up in my dreams last night, including this monster that was not given a name, just text:

----
Landmark
At the end of your turn, pay $1 or gain a Curse.  When you would trash a Curse, return it to the Supply instead.
----

The game was literally directly attacking us.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Why Peasant Will Be On My Ban List

« on: November 12, 2018, 05:29:38 pm »

But hate on. And please ban-list, you can't come sooner. *stares at Sauna*

*stares in Rebuild*

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: What's the Weirdest Engine You've Seen?

« on: November 12, 2018, 05:09:00 pm »

Pretty sure Inn-Storeroom-Counting House from one of the championships is still the weirdest.

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Dominion: Renaissance Previews / Re: Renaissance Initial Impressions

« on: November 05, 2018, 06:00:59 pm »

Inventor looks crazy in the same way that Bridge does.  But after thinking about it, it doesn't have quite the same megaturn potential.  5 bridges and $7 in treasure gives you 4 provinces; 5 Inventors and $7 in treasure gives you only 2 provinces and a bunch of components.  It might be better for building, worse for scoring.

Going further, 7 Bridges and $1 treasure gets you 8 Provinces, 7 Inventors and $1 gets you only 4 Provinces.  Not providing the coin/buy of Bridge is a huge loss.

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Dominion Online at Shuffle iT / Re: Renaissance online release

« on: November 05, 2018, 04:32:20 pm »

Do we need to update our subscriptions?  Or did I just get unlucky to not get new cards in my matchup?

Edit:  Never mind, figured out how to update!

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Innovation General Discussion / Re: Well, this board is dead BUT has anyone played with the new Artifacts expansion?

« on: October 30, 2018, 10:51:06 pm »

I recently tried playing a game of Innovation with all 4 expansions, but e quit after a while because it was to complicated. Will probably try again with a slower approach soon.

This is definitely on my list of things to try, if I can get people to actually be interested.  Main problem is that you really have to play the expansions individually to understand them all...

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Other Games / Re: Pandemic Legacy (probably will have spoilers)

« on: October 29, 2018, 03:10:13 pm »

We're a bit over halfway through.  I'm not sure losing intentionally is an optimal strategy; building up the board too much (by spending the extra time doing so) also makes future games harder (resources spread thin, harder to finish some objectives.  But time will tell; we've had a few devastating losses, including at least one where game setup took longer than game play.

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Dominion: Renaissance Previews / Re: Pssst.... (Eager anticipation) When's it shipping?

« on: October 29, 2018, 03:04:17 pm »

Soon^TM

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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: RNG vs decisions

« on: October 26, 2018, 12:34:10 am »

Apropos of exactly nothing in this thread except minor mistakes among cards:

Bandit does not combo with Bandit Fort, but Bandit Camp combos with either.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Still A Better (Love?) Story Than Twilight - The Thread

« on: October 19, 2018, 01:43:10 pm »

Star Cross'd Lovers of Dominion: HERBALIST/ALCHEMIST: A LOVE STORY

Thank you!

I un-voted it just so I could upvote it again.

ADK worked in so many Dominion cards, but I think I found at least three that weren't yet cards in there.

Also that story is FOUR YEARS OLD this forum is SEVEN YEARS OLD I am OLD

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Forum Games / Re: Awaclus and the Finnish Championship

« on: October 19, 2018, 01:36:04 pm »

(1) There's *championship* Mafia?  I don't even know how to feel about this revelation.

(2) We sent a representative to a Mafia championship?  Like an official f.DS person to represent us?  I'm entirely uninvolved in the Mafia community here because social deduction games cause me literal physical pain, but still I feel like... what the hell?

There is, but it is not this one. This one is a Finnish championship, held in Finnish. As far as I am aware, our mafia community has exactly two Finnish people in it and we could send up to 3 people. There was no choice of a representative involved there really.

Seems ironic that he decided not to... Finnish.

/sorry not sorry