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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Interview with Donald X.
« on: December 05, 2022, 01:39:17 pm »
Landmarks and Allies are actually exactly the same thing functionally except for the setup rules.

Could you elaborate?

I see they are the same except for the part where Allies have an entire card type dedicated to them which are a prerequisite for their inclusion in the kingdom and also use a brand-new currency common to all of them to manage access to their benefits… at which point I think, if anything, Allies are closer to Events than Landmarks.

The "prerequisite for their inclusion in the kingdom" is a setup rule, and as I said the setup rules are different.

The rules for "Favor" (Favor tokens and the meaning of "+1 Favor") are given in the rulebook, and both Allies and Liaisons refer to Favors. So although all Allies use Favors, technically there is no rule saying that "any landscape card that refers to Favors is an Ally" or anything like that; just as there is no rule saying that "any landscape card that gives VP tokens during the game or VP at the end of the game is a Landmark". Functionally, Allies and Landmarks are landscape cards that don't have any specific rule associated with them (again, except for setup) except the rule that the abilities on them are available at all times for all players.

Events, on the other hand, also have the rule that their ability can be bought by spending a buy and paying the given cost, immediately triggering it.

EDIT: Ninja'd!

This is only true for those Allies for which you don't spend favors to activate. I think it's pretty clear that those Allies for which you have to trigger by spending a currency DO have an additional rule (i.e. you must spend favors to activate) compared to Landmarks or to those Allies which are not triggerable.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Interview with Donald X.
« on: June 06, 2022, 03:10:40 pm »
Did you work on Hinterlands 2E simultaneously with Allies and the other 2Es?

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Interview with Donald X.
« on: June 01, 2022, 05:59:59 pm »
Hi, for the new Hoard I understand why you couldn't switch to on gain, but I was wondering if it could not have been "when you gain in the buy phase" which seems cleaner to me and has fewer commas. I tried racking my head about buy phase broken synergies but couldn't think of one. Thanks.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Interview with Donald X.
« on: April 17, 2022, 12:03:30 am »
For Importer, did you consider for it to give +5 favors (for a total of 6)? I only ask this because then in Importer only games we would be able to use Crafter's and Architects guild (and City-State) three times total. As it is, we can only use them twice which lessens their impact on the game and also leaves a useless favor on the mat (which somewhat bothers me aesthetically).

Thanks for the awesome expansion!!

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Minor note about new printings
« on: November 02, 2020, 11:24:16 am »
I don't understand why the infinite loop of trader/forum/cost reduction no longer works? The forum still goes back into the pile and you still get the buy back.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Interview with Donald X.
« on: October 21, 2020, 01:06:18 pm »
You said before that if you would redo nocturne that you would keep boons and dump hexes. Would you keep the boon deck exactly the same, or are there any changes you would make there?

Also, menagerie is my favorite expansion and I'm so blown away by how skill rewarding it seems. However, some of the effects are pretty difficult to track IRL like changing costs, which I love online but can't use with the people I play with IRL. Are you planning on doing more cost changing in the future?

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Interview with Donald X.
« on: September 24, 2020, 06:43:12 pm »
Do you consider Gatekeeper to be a dud? I watch a lot of top players and they never seem to buy it or even consider it. I know you have explicitly stated that avoiding duds in new sets is a high priority for you, naturally. Are players under valuing it?

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Interview with Donald X.
« on: April 14, 2020, 08:05:22 pm »
Thank you for the amazing game DonaldX!

In the secret history for Raider it says that late in the process the cost was raised from 5 to 6. Why was the card nerfed like this when it already would not have been a power 5 cost (or so it seems)? Do you have any retrospective thoughts on the design of this card?

Thanks!!!

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