What I really do not understand is the sublimal hostility towards Donald and the smirk posts without providing anything useful to the discussion, just for the sake of arguing. Why, just why?If this had been a few minutes earlier I would have just deleted it with the rest, but instead I edited it so you didn't wonder, wtf where is my post. So this is the part that wasn't part of The Continuing Story of Awaclus. It's uh. It's not exactly good times but you get to say it anyway. Which I guess is part of the explanation you're looking for too.
7. If you don't make animations sparkle enough, it will ruin the game for casual users.
I highly doubt that.
As a slowish player, I beg you not to enforce timed games on everybody (unless the time limit is pretty generous).
I understand those people that want their plays to move along fast, but playing fast extremely reduces my enjoyment of Dominion. Adding a preference for the time limit (fast vs slow) in a way similar to how vp counters work now would keep everybody happy, I guess, but at the cost of slower matchups.
With Tournament you have to discard the province instead of just revealing it. We play mostly 4p games and the players that get to province first are already in a better spot and having to just reveal the province usually means that the last player to get a province has no chance to get back in the game.
I think this originated from a translation error on our version and we stuck to it, because all players liked this alot more.
Sounds to me like you're playing the rules as written. You're supposed to discard the Province when you play Tournament, but you don't have to discard it if you are revealing it on another player's turn in order to 'block' them.
However there is nothing to stop you re-drawing the Province and using it again later the same turn.
Off-topic, I think a four-player Tournament game sounds like bad times for someone no matter what...
Seriously, with my game group we ignore the effect most of the time, it just doesnīt seem important enough to interrupt a conversation or prelong a game where someone actually got Spy.
I actually find Spy much more bearable IRL than online.
When playing F2F, we go "rabble mode", each player making the obvious Spy decisions on their own, and only asking the attacker if they reveal a "doubtful" card (typically copper). Also, you can avoid revealing again if you already revealed the same card to an earlier spy.
That way, the player simply announces "Spy!", and goes on with their turn, just like you do for most other attacks.
Spy is something that I'm going to say flat out, something you don't want unless you can just gain it, and only after there's nothing better to gain.
That's true. It's also true for Mountebank, Rebuild, Cultist, Wharf and Colony, among others. You don't want to gain them if there's something better to gain, and you don't really gain them very often unless you can gain them.
What's better to gain than a Colony? And don't say something lame like the last card in the third pile, ending the game and making sure you win. And also don't say the last Province. I think that's all the edge cases, of course barring the whole two Colonies left thing.
I haven't read all of the other replies but I have to admit that I also find this entire ordeal really annoying. I payed the equivalent of $90, so I can occasionally play Dominion at my free leisure. Recently I had troubles in my life and didn't really have time for anything and I still don't and now you're telling me that my purchase will basically be just a waste? Making my purchase the equivalent of a service of about $36 is not a good reimbursement, come on. I'd rather prefer MF to still hold the contract at this time even though it is far from perfect and made me use SCSNs mod to make it more bearable.
I'd rather pay a steep price once than pay a little each month and feel like I wasted money if I don't play at least once this month. I am disillusioned at how poor structered the new pay model is and how everyone is so ecstatic about these news.
I think that most people understand that ongoing services have a cost. Some places use donation models to keep things going (BGA, Yucata, Kingdom of Loathing). Some use pay-to-win or pay-for-hats to keep things going (Prismata, Hearthstone, and *shudder* mobile freemium). And others use subscriptions.
Making Fun had an unsustainable business model. They were going to get less and less revenue each month at some point, and server costs were going to eat them.
The thing about subscriptions is, you don't have to pay every month! Shit hit the fan IRL? Cancel for the next few months, bam, done. You could request/suggest that the free year be allowed to be taken as 12 months, I suppose.
And yes, you could argue that a donation model might work. But how many people will donate to server costs? Would they need a yearly donation drive like BGG or Wikipedia? How quickly would that start to hurt? I personally would rather have a sustainable service, and $3 a month is an incredible price point.
Well said. Really, this feeling that people have of getting multiply charged is Goko/Making Fun's fault of setting up their model the way they did in the first place. I believe if this were the very first implementation of Online Dominion, people wouldn't be so affronted by the subscription model, even if they didn't agree that it was optimal.
One thing I've been wondering is how much stronger Militia is as first player. Does anyone have any math or just good intuitions on this?
