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Innovation General Discussion / Re: How often do you achieve a higher Age than is necessary?
« on: Today at 10:22:54 am »
I think of it this way: I count how many actions it takes for him to either take the low achievement or deny me the high achievement.
If he has nothing on his board that can do either, then I take the high achievement. This is because it takes only two actions to deny me an achievement (e.g., meld -> execute Vaccination / Combustion / etc.), but it takes him three actions to claim the low achievement (e.g., meld -> execute Bicycle -> claim achievement).
Echoes, of course, is different ...
If he has nothing on his board that can do either, then I take the high achievement. This is because it takes only two actions to deny me an achievement (e.g., meld -> execute Vaccination / Combustion / etc.), but it takes him three actions to claim the low achievement (e.g., meld -> execute Bicycle -> claim achievement).
Echoes, of course, is different ...
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Innovation General Discussion / Re: Scoring system feels lopsided
« on: May 19, 2013, 08:28:29 am »
I don't think the scoring system is broken as-is, and I think your scoring system is a lot more "broken". I mean, with yours, if you start with Agriculture you can just immediately claim an achievement.
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Innovation General Discussion / Re: Some intricate design choices the game designer might have made consciously
« on: May 17, 2013, 07:39:11 pm »
I think it's very interesting to note that the draw-and-meld cards (Experimentation, Atomic Theory, and Corporations) all appear in the power spike ages. It would be pretty OP if Experimentation was an Age 5 card letting you draw/meld Age 6 cards.
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General Discussion / Re: Computer and Video Games
« on: May 17, 2013, 03:14:32 pm »Hope you didnt want to get any work done this afternoon.
http://webccgame.com/?page=play
Luckily I got so annoyed with having to repeatedly restart level 2 (from constantly walking in the water accidentally) that I will still be productive this afternoon
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General Discussion / Re: Computer and Video Games
« on: May 17, 2013, 02:26:26 pm »
That's awesome. The next time I play LoL with your brother I should spout off ROTK quotes non-stop.
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Other Board Games / Re: Puzzle Strike
« on: May 17, 2013, 01:47:12 pm »
There's a lot of reasons to dislike Sirlin or his games. Vis-a-vis Puzzle Strike, here's one of them.
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Innovation General Discussion / Re: Innovation stats: the low-hanging fruit
« on: May 16, 2013, 11:08:19 am »
I mean any card that scores from hand can't be that bad. It scales nicely as the game goes on.
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Dominion Online / Re: Goko log parser - now for Chrome!
« on: May 16, 2013, 12:47:09 am »
MS Paint
Pixlr
It should also help you auto-resize some pics
Pixlr
It should also help you auto-resize some pics
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General Discussion / Re: Codebreaker Logic Puzzle
« on: May 15, 2013, 01:34:08 pm »
Here's a question I have that isn't related to this puzzle in particular.
Has anyone designed a logic puzzle whose central deduction is a meta-deduction? That is to say, a logic puzzle which is logically deducible only because you are foretold that is logically deducible, and therefore at a certain otherwise undecidable point, you are guided by such meta-knowledge.
Has anyone designed a logic puzzle whose central deduction is a meta-deduction? That is to say, a logic puzzle which is logically deducible only because you are foretold that is logically deducible, and therefore at a certain otherwise undecidable point, you are guided by such meta-knowledge.
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General Discussion / Re: Codebreaker Logic Puzzle
« on: May 15, 2013, 10:45:46 am »Yeah, that was a lot of fun. I want to see more like that.
I did have to guess a couple of times unfortunately.
I really couldn't quite get the prime-number clue to yield anything useful for me. I'm sure it presented some unique situations that really let pieces fall into place, but I just couldn't see them. Knowing the count of columns with exactly 1 prime didn't help me as much since I didn't know how many primes the other two could have. The upper bound of primes didn't help me so much, since by the time I got that clue, I already knew that the number of primes couldn't exceed that.
There are only 9 primes. That means that the columns have to be 1/1/1/3/3. That in and of itself is not huge, but it's really powerful when combined with the Fibonacci clues. Once your top row gets set to 2/3/13, it rules out a lot of locations for the primes.
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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Edge cases of rules questions
« on: May 14, 2013, 10:13:09 pm »
What are some situations where you prefer to have a Silver instead of a Gold?
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Innovation Game Reports / Down by 14 points, Alchemy into Globalization for the win
« on: May 14, 2013, 01:46:37 pm »
http://innovation.isotropic.org/gamelog/201305/14/game-20130514-104435-0289d8be.html
I knew all three of the cards I was drawing, so there was no risk of a alchemic lab explosion, and it was exactly the card I needed in order to 1) meld Globalization; 2) score enough for Globalization to take the win.
I knew all three of the cards I was drawing, so there was no risk of a alchemic lab explosion, and it was exactly the card I needed in order to 1) meld Globalization; 2) score enough for Globalization to take the win.
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General Discussion / Codebreaker Logic Puzzle
« on: May 14, 2013, 11:34:51 am »
A great logic puzzle that took me a bit of time to work through:
http://www.sporcle.com/games/dm21uk/codebreaker_logic
http://www.sporcle.com/games/dm21uk/codebreaker_logic
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Stupid Pet Tricks
« on: May 13, 2013, 02:33:45 pm »
I don't think it really matters, since you can just add a Lab to the combo.
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General Discussion / Re: (Bad) Puns Thread!
« on: May 13, 2013, 12:06:18 pm »
Three brothers started a cattle ranch, but could not think of a name for it.
They asked their father, and he suggested Focus: because that's where the sun's rays meet.
They asked their father, and he suggested Focus: because that's where the sun's rays meet.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Homage to the Best Card
« on: May 10, 2013, 10:20:08 am »
You know, DXV raised exactly this objection when I suggested the name, though I guess he got over it.
Quote from: DXV
Counterfeit is interesting although it's the wrong uh type of name for a treasure. It would have to be like Counterfeit Coins. It doesn't really fit with trashing the treasure though. That treasure was real. Maybe that's okay though.
Quote from: theory
I thought of it as a one-shot: you can't pass the Counterfeit a second time because they've caught on.
Counterfeit is technically a noun too, but you won't be able to convince anyone it's not a verb on first sight.
Quote from: DXV
No I mean, the treasure you copied wasn't counterfeit. I have a Silver; it's Silver. I Counterfeit it; I get the $2 from the Silver itself, and $1 from Counterfeit for some kind of added value I guess, and $2 from the counterfeit copy of the Silver, which is a phantom that never goes in my deck or anything. But I also trash the Silver. It was Silver, it was fine.
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Guilds Speculation / Re: Needed card titles
« on: May 09, 2013, 12:00:03 pm »
Save the sex/gender discussions for RSP, please.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Homage to the Best Card
« on: May 09, 2013, 11:16:51 am »I wonder if people actually got it was a Scout.It's ok, I got it. I assumed there's some kind of "scumbag Scout" meme for TF2 that you'd appropriated.
Yeah that's what I thought. Something like this:
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Power Grid General Discussion / Re: How to approach board-specific articles?
« on: May 09, 2013, 11:15:33 am »
Also for map-based commentary: starting positions?
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Power Grid General Discussion / Re: How to approach board-specific articles?
« on: May 09, 2013, 09:36:12 am »
The articles for each of the maps can be as short as needed. I think they would be helpful.
I don't know if this is feasible, but another strategy is simply to go through plant by plant. Or analyze the plants in groups of five, and give them rough ratings. It helps newbies to know not to buy that garbage plant in the first 10, but to go after that #4 plant or whatever is the really good one.
I don't know if this is feasible, but another strategy is simply to go through plant by plant. Or analyze the plants in groups of five, and give them rough ratings. It helps newbies to know not to buy that garbage plant in the first 10, but to go after that #4 plant or whatever is the really good one.
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General Discussion / Re: Book Recommendations
« on: May 07, 2013, 05:33:01 pm »Have you read Never Let Me Go? It's modern Japanese, recently made into a movie. That's dystopian for sure.Is this a good time to confess that I always confuse Haruki Murakami with Kazuo Ishiguro?
I like the latter much better.
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General Discussion / Re: Book Recommendations
« on: May 07, 2013, 04:08:11 pm »
I thought the Foundation trilogy was the best, and that Foundation (the first book) in particular was the best of those.