By the way, whatever happened to this? http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=19706.0
People get matched against people of similar skill levels; the skill multiplier isn't the story of good players beating bad players. Black Market has a skill multiplier of 1.23, which is crazy high. It feels high-luck; it's actually high-skill. ... Smithy meanwhile is high-luck and no-one complains about it. That's just how it goes. (Swindler is an example of a card that looks high-luck and is).
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The hexes have a skill multiplier of 1.00; they don't have an effect on our ability to predict the winner from skill level. Isn't that interesting.
So is Captain more or less simply Band of Misfits that works both now and next turn, for a cost ofinstead of
? That sounds way way better than BoM.
Imagine how would you feel if you come back to this post and see those picture again 10 years from now... priceless memory...
Season 13 is underway now but if you're quick.... we still have room for one D player and one E player.
I bought one of these hobby lobby boxes, and it seems they have changed the divider grooves on newer models. Fair warning to anyone who buys one now. Instead of dividing in to four rows vertically, it now divides in to three horizontal (and they are different sizes not appropriate for Dominion cards).
Guess the other question is '[when] will Goko get this?"Having no inside information whatsoever, at this point my first guess is never. As always I have to concede to the possibility that they've been rewriting the entire program from scratch and then everyone had to take maternity leave.
How many people on here live in the Manhattan area?Me and rrenaud. Contact us if you want to play!
Well I work in Manhattan and live just outside.. basically if I go "out to dinner" I'm looking at spending $40 per person easily, and that's just the cheapest it can possibly be at an actual sit-down restaurant (not a quick burger or pizza or sandwich). I would say most "non-fancy" places are in the $15-$30 range for the main course. If you have wine or something that's $10-$15 on the low end. Plus tipping. So if I take someone out on a date, and you get drinks in addition to dinner, then it gets up to $100 pretty easily. And I'm not talking fancy at all.. just your standard Manhattan small restaurant. Yes it can be cheaper, but it gets fairly expensive fairly quickly. And if you want to go to a nicer place.. well, prices just go up and up.
I grew up, however, in the Midwest, where you'd probably spend 60% of that for the same amount of food/drinks. Of course, the quality is better here. Anyway, my point was, the amount that a "normal" person spends on food is much different in a big city than it is in the rest of the country.
I stopped by Katz about a year and a half ago.. sandwiches were pretty expensive, I would say, up in the $12-$14 range. I was kind of taken aback because of how well reviewed the place was.. I really wasn't very impressed, and I'm generally happier with the $7 or $8 subs at any deli in Midtown.
The thing about promo cards is that they are designed as promotional tools. I don't know the history on the existing promos, but wasn't Stash published to commemorate Dominion winning the SdJ? And Governor and Walled Village for anniversaries of Puerto Rico and Carcassonne?
What is happening this year that would prompt a promo? My guess is that this will be the online-only promo intended to promote Goko.
Goko
Action - $3
+2 Coins. Each player trashes the top card of their deck, representing their favorite online gaming platform, and gains a sucky card of supposedly equal value that you choose.
Hmm…
Goko
Action - $4
Trash a card costing $0 from your hand. If you do, the player to your left chooses a card in the supply costing $3 or more. Gain that.
Top of my list would be Sea Hag. It's not very interesting mechanically, and it generally just slows the pace of the game to a crawl, particularly in multiplayer, but it's usually too strong to ignore, and adds a lot of early game variance in what cards get flipped.
There is no way that Goko and RGG are going to agree to an iso-style implementation that co-exists with Goko - even if it is password protected for only Goko purchasers.
I just wrote to RGG.
"Hello!
I'm a giant Dominion fan (well... addict to be honest). I apologize if you've received a bunch of messages like this, but I've found the online implementation (Goko) to be excessively frustrating. I have purchased all of the Dominion sets in physical form (except Dark Ages, as I fear the cards are too complicated for my daughter to play) and would love to play them online - and would pay for what I deem to be an acceptable version of that. However, Goko is just so buggy and unreliable that I haven't purchased the cards there. I'm not alone in that. I contribute to an online community of Dominion fans, and many people (including many who bought the cards on Goko) are extremely dissatisfied.
Many of us are talking about how we might possibly get back a version of online Dominion that we like. The night I first played Dominion (in real life) I really liked it. I went home, searched online, and found the old unofficial implementation (isotropic). It was there that I became hooked - buying the physical sets quickly followed. I understand why it had to go, of course - Goko needed a blank slate to get their foot in the door. Unfortunately it seems that their version is just not up to the task.
So to round to the point, I would like to urge you guys to seek alternative licensing arrangements whenever your contract with Goko allows. In fact, if you're comfortable disclosing some details of your contract (and not legally prohibited from doing so), I would love to get some information from you about it. A few of us have seriously discussed pooling money in an attempt to purchase the license. I'm sure it's a pipedream, but we have a community full of folks who are willing to kick in to a crowdsourced version of purchasing the online license in order to implement something more like isotropic.
Thank you for your time and for the work you've done publishing an awesome game. "
I don't know if the Guilds card is similar, but the Dark Ages card says to go to www.playdominion.com/dark. On the other side there are instructions about swiping the card and at the bottom there is a circle that says "Hold Here", below that there is a 6 digit number (maybe your card doesn't have one?). I just went to the url, clicked through some stuff, logged in, put in the code and it worked. I did this a while ago, so I don't remember all the details. Try going to playdominion.com/dark instead of "guild" the guild one seems to just redirect straight to the normal Dominion online home screen.
edit: The playdominion.com/dark page has a link which sends you here: http://play.goko.com/Dominion/gameClient.html?boxcard=true. At the bottom left corner of the page there is a little icon that says Redeem.
You do not need a touchscreen, there is a number at the bottom of the card you can type in to get the cards.
