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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Goofs you've seen or done in digital implementations that wouldn't happen IRL?

« on: October 05, 2017, 11:36:43 am »

From a recent game with Ball:

Got a 5-2 split, with no $2 cards on the board. Turn 1, I purchased Ball, and grabbed two cards. Turn 2, I clicked End Turn.

And I still had my -$1 token.

To make matters worse, the next time I purchased Ball, I made the same mistake again. After a couple of other frustrating misclicks, I just gave up.

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Game Reports / Re: Engines need +buy

« on: August 25, 2017, 01:25:10 pm »

I don't see why you want 1 kings court there at all.

I had a 7 coin turn at one point. I figured a King's Court would be better than a Gold, to improve the reliability of the deck (King's Courting a Gear is pretty nice).

I know, there's always the chance of the King's Court appearing in hand without a Gear. Maybe I just lucked out; that didn't happen the whole game.

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Game Reports / Engines need +buy

« on: August 24, 2017, 11:15:02 pm »

Game 6269663. I can't replay it, since I'm not a subscriber (shame on me!), but you guys can.

Events: Scouting Party and Plan. Cards: University, Fortune Teller, Gear, Caravan, Envoy, Island, Wandering Minstrel, Highway, King's Court, and a 10th card I forgot (it definitely didn't have +buy on it). No Platina/Colonies/Shelters.

My plan: Plan on Gears. Shift into 1st Gear, then 2nd Gear, then 3rd Gear. Buy some cash and a King's Court, then buy one Province per turn.

My opponent's plan: gain lots of shiny stuff.

I lost the King's Court split 8-1 (the last one went unclaimed). I lost the Island split 8-0. But somehow, I squeaked out the win. 

Quite an amusing game.



Edit: maybe the 10th card was Advisor? I hope that someone who can actually see the game will help me out here...

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: What are everyone's favorite and least favorite cards?

« on: August 02, 2017, 09:25:28 pm »

"Ooh, this looks like an interesting board! A couple of possible strategies here. Not sure which is better! I guess I'll..."

"Oh wait, Rebuild is on the board. Sigh. I guess I'll go for that, then."

I don't know if I have a favorite, but Rebuild is definitely my least favorite. It makes so many other cards insignificant.

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Game Reports / Re: Great Board

« on: May 24, 2017, 08:46:57 am »

Was "Moneylender" supposed to be "Spice Merchant"? I didn't see any Moneylenders anywhere in the log, but I did see plenty of Spice Merchants...

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Best Dominion moments 2016

« on: April 27, 2017, 12:05:38 pm »

FFS.

Wait, what? Is this some time into the game, after you've played a Highway? How unlucky this is depends heavily on how many Coppers you've already trashed. It's not uncommon to open Silver/Moneylender and end up drawing Moneylender, Silver, Estate x3, and that's much worse than having it happen later.

Turn 3, after a Baker token, I'm guessing.

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Game Reports / Re: Shortest games around

« on: February 11, 2017, 11:48:44 pm »

Today I played a League match against Dingan that was just as fast. It did end on 3 piles though, so not quite as impressive, but seems still to be the fastest league match ever.
You can watch the game in this video or watch the replay (Game Id: 1161790, decision index: 154 if you want to see the log).

That was the slowest 7-turn game in history.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Interesting board.

« on: February 11, 2017, 12:02:08 pm »

It depends a lot on whether there's a +buy on the card you forgot.

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Game Reports / Re: May I resign on turn 0?

« on: February 09, 2017, 10:06:45 am »

My opponent bought Mine. Fool's Gold is in the Kingdom.

When you said Mine, did you mean Mint?

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

« on: December 13, 2016, 05:35:27 pm »

Not only did this poor soul think it was a good idea to open Estate/Mint, but they continued to buy Estates and Coppers until they had a deck of 11 Estates and 11 Coppers (and not much else) by turn 16.

The trouble is, he only lost by 5 points. So, he's going to think that his strategy was pretty good, and he lost only because of bad luck.

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Game Reports / Re: Beware Conventional Wisdom

« on: November 02, 2016, 12:04:00 am »

Neither of us could do seaway-Magpie, because Magpie had already piled out when we bought Seaway

I think you should've done Seaway-Magpie at turn 3, instead of buying a Swamp Hag. The Swamp Hag can wait.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Advice for Playing Against Stef?

« on: October 20, 2016, 02:30:29 pm »

Accept the fact that you're going to lose. Then go in there and have some fun.

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Game Reports / Re: Knights/Rogue/City

« on: July 15, 2016, 07:18:02 pm »

Call me crazy, but I think the best opening on this board is Bonfire/Bonfire. Trash Necropolis/Copper on one hand, Copper/Copper on the other. Guaranteed Silver on turn 3, and then you build up your engine from there.

On a 5/2 start? Pillage/Pawn, I guess.

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Game Reports / Re: Frustration.

« on: June 22, 2016, 07:11:51 pm »

This reminds me of the time where my opponent replaced my Chapel with Estate via Swindler 4 times in the same game.  Obviously I had to keep re-buying it and it kept getting replaced.

And at the other end of the spectrum, there was one time I was forced to gain 9 out of the 10 available Chapels, because my opponent kept hitting my Chapels with his Jester. Frustrating. (Fortunately, the game ended in a tie.)

Can I pass you a Chapel under the table, shark_bait?

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Dominion: Empires Previews / Re: Release date

« on: May 27, 2016, 12:06:02 am »

Next time there's an expansion coming out, post the release date as being way out there, like 2019. Then keep moving it up and everyone will be happy.

Or don't even announce the next expansion until it is already in stores.

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Dominion: Empires Previews / Re: Release date

« on: May 23, 2016, 09:38:52 pm »

I think it'd be neat to have a collaborative effort to try to come up with 26 "interesting" Kingdoms without duplication, once Empires is released, since 260 is a nice round number and we can just consider the Bane a special case until we get another promo or something.

We should probably aim for 25 interesting Kingdoms, so we can exclude Scout, Chancellor, Adventurer, etc.

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Help! / Re: Beggar Counting House?

« on: April 24, 2016, 12:58:12 pm »

Am I crazy for thinking that Beggar/Philosopher's Stone might be a thing?

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Game Reports / Re: Transmute

« on: April 18, 2016, 10:37:11 pm »

What is optimal play on this board when your opponent starts 5/2?

Pray that your opponent screws up and buys stuff other than Cultists, money, and VP cards. Which he did.

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Mini-Set Design Contest / Re: 2016 Treasure Chest Design Contest - Part 0.7: Alchemy Runoff

« on: January 04, 2016, 05:23:41 pm »

Doesn't matter to me.

Have fun totalling up all the pi's and e's you are going to get...

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Innovation General Discussion / Re: Did DougZ lose his website?

« on: January 03, 2016, 12:01:54 pm »

It's back up. Sorry for being so paranoid. 

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Innovation General Discussion / Did DougZ lose his website?

« on: January 03, 2016, 11:35:51 am »

innovation.isotropic.org

I'm getting what looks like a 10 year old website for some museum. What's going on here?

I'll send a message to DougZ, but it looks like he hasn't been on f.ds for several months, so... 

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General Discussion / Re: My Survivor audition video

« on: December 29, 2015, 12:15:47 am »

Didn't watch the video yet, but I have to ask:

Are you sure you want to go on Survivor? Going five and a half weeks without food doesn't seem all that fun to me.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Scout's best combo?

« on: December 14, 2015, 11:35:53 pm »

Either Masquerade or Ambassador, because you can use them to pass Scouts to your opponent.

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Game Reports / Re: Most Impressive Win I've Ever Seen

« on: November 27, 2015, 10:45:47 pm »

You should've bought a Duchy on that last turn.

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Game Reports / Re: Magical losses

« on: November 01, 2015, 05:35:13 pm »

But recently I played this, what would be your strategy?

Pretty much what you did, except I wouldn't have bothered with Spice Merchant. I would've just gone Cultist-BM.