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General Discussion / Re: What's your username mean
« on: October 30, 2012, 08:38:16 am »
My last name is Wozniak, and often went by Woz.  Just thought it was clever in Jr. High (along with "The Wozman Cometh") anyway, it stuck.  Now I use it everywhere.

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I didn't play for the week before the game was "released", so I guess I could be playing the old version and just don't know it. 

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Goko Dominion Online / Re: Ask FunSockets anything!
« on: August 22, 2012, 11:12:50 am »
Details on the where and when for the Q and A?

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It is listed as v378.  Looks different, though.  Many avatars to choose from, better leaderboard.  I see no difference in the actual game.  I don't program, so I can't speak to the security concerns.

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I was in the original, and now I am able to get into the new one.  Seems like they have updated quite a few cosmetic things. I can't speak for the rest, though, by the looks of the leaderboards, there are a lot of regulars from here playing on there.

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GokoDom / Re: IsoDom 5: Round 5 Results Thread
« on: August 08, 2012, 01:47:12 pm »
When are the results for the next round due?  Traveling this weekend and wondering if I have to try to squeeze it in before then, or if I can play early next week.

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GokoDom / Re: IsoDom 5: Round 5 Results Thread
« on: August 07, 2012, 08:55:42 am »
Will the elimination brackets be posted on the same Challonge page as the Swiss match-ups?

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Dominion General Discussion / Log on Trouble
« on: July 30, 2012, 10:52:01 am »
Is anyone else having trouble getting logged on to ISO today?  I can't get past the log in selections (Yahoo or Google).

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GokoDom / Re: IsoDom 5: Round 5 Results Thread
« on: July 30, 2012, 08:19:46 am »
Wizard of Woz 3 - Chriskern 1

Game 1
http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120729-181345-43d53969.html

Woz 31 - 19 Chriskern

With Minion on the board, I see Embassy and think that I will try Embassy BM and see if I can just run with it.  It worked.  I think Chriskern gave up on him Minion start after I got going with Embassy, by then it was too late to switch and I coast to Victory.

Game 2
http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120729-182025-9e767843.html

Chriskern 36 - 35 Woz

After Embssy dominating the first game, it shows up again here.  I pretty much decide to go the same route, BM Embassy, while Chriskern decides to do Embassy with a little support from Markets.  I could never get my Salvager to collide with anything meaningful toward the end of the game, and had it collide with one too many Estates.  I break the PPR, we dance for a bit, and Chriskern picks up the winner. 

Game 3
http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120729-182731-1439f3d9.html

Woz 39 - 35 Chriskern

As we look at the third board, what card is there?  Yup, Embassy again.  Weird.  The big difference here is that there are tournaments on board.  I push tournaments a little harder.  We both grab a Province on turn 7, but I get mine to collide first.  From there, again Embassy with money and support from Tournaments and a Trusty Steed.  I jjust got the first prize, and sometimes that's enough.

Game 4
http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120729-183645-0cba31d7.html

Woz 33 - 23 Chriskern

Well, no Embassy this time, but I see his BM enabling brother, Vault on the board.  I am already thinking about money games so Vault seemed like a ready made strategy.  Chriskern started out with a Spice Merchant.  I grabbed one too because I thought "Hey two coins plus trashing a copper".  After I bought it I though "Hey, its really only +1 coin because I have to get rid of a copper, so it won't help me get Vaults as fast as a silver would have."  Even still, I stay on the Vault BM path while Chriskern goes with some schemes and throne rooms.  He had the support, but no big cards to use them with.  Black Market was on the board but he really didn't get a chance at it. 

Chriskern was a great opponent, and I have to apologize for not being very talkative.  Was trying to get dinner in at the same time, and was unable to type a whole lot. 

I would appreciate if someone would look at these three Embassy games and give thoughts on how to approach this card with 3 different kingdoms.

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GokoDom / Re: IsoDom 5: Round 4 Results Thread (Vacation Edition)
« on: July 22, 2012, 10:04:23 pm »
Smithe 0 - 3 Wizard of Woz

Game 1 Smithe 40 - Woz 60

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201207/22/game-20120722-183218-7e08bf9c.html

Montebank, Torturer with a Village.  With Vault and Venture on the board, was tempted to just go BM, but went with the attacks and some villages.  Smithe went with a similar strategy.

Game 2 Smithe 42 Woz 47

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201207/22/game-20120722-184624-4c5d260f.html

Close one with me edging out on Grand Markets.  I feel like we both greened too early, and we had trouble ending the game.  Smithe purchased the PP on turn 20, with a lead, and I finally got the final one on turn 23. 

Game 3
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201207/22/game-20120722-185354-5caa7a24.html

Smithe 22 - Woz 39

I start Moneylender/Warehouse and grab a Minion on turn 3.  Smith went for a Bridge strategy, supported by Fishing Villages.  Without the draw he wasn't able to get going, and my Minions just rolled. 

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Game Reports / Re: A nice develop game.
« on: July 19, 2012, 08:17:50 am »
@Grujah

As soon as I saw the thread name I thought, "Pretty sure I got killed by Grujah with a develop".  Sometimes you never forget the first time you see a card work.

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Dominion General Discussion / Mandarin Start
« on: July 06, 2012, 11:01:47 am »
Not sure if this has been discussed, so sorry if its a repeat.   Started a game with a 5/2 opening adn decided to go for a Mandarin.  This put the 5 coppers back on top, and I had 5 again next hand.  I could buy out the stack, if I wanted to.  How many should I buy? 

Here is the game log.  I lost, and didn't play particularly well, but other than that, how would you approach this Mandarin start?

http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201207/06/game-20120706-075901-19cd5568.html

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GokoDom / Re: IsoDom 5: Round 3 Results Thread
« on: July 05, 2012, 03:18:25 pm »
Thanks to JVB for some good games. 

The last two were tough for me.  As I recall, I went for Universities due to not getting 3p in a hand for quite a while.  In both games I feel I had some really slow draws and got behind early.  JVB was too good to make up the deficit, and so I was stuck trying silly things and hoping... Never a good strategy.

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GokoDom / Re: IsoDom 5: Round 2 Results Thread
« on: June 20, 2012, 11:51:02 am »
@ Lespeutere - Was that to me?  I will fix the gender, but wasn't sure if you were talking to me.

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GokoDom / Re: IsoDom 5: Round 2 Results Thread
« on: June 20, 2012, 11:11:50 am »
Fixed that.  Sorry

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GokoDom / Re: IsoDom 5: Round 2 Results Thread
« on: June 20, 2012, 10:48:17 am »
Hi all.  First long post, and I expect some formatting SNAFUs.  If so, let me know and I'll edit.  Anyway, on to the results. 

Wizard of Woz 3 - loes u 2

Game 1 - http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120619-144523-546b488e.html

Woz - 37 Loes u - 30
Witch, Jack, Familiar with some TFB (Forge and Salvager).  Close game where I inch ahead at the end.  I don't have much of an impression from this one, honestly.

Game 2

Loes u - 50 Woz - 37
http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120619-143528-192c399f.html

She got started with the cursing early and my deck couldn't really get going.  I am still not sure how to handle that, and this will be even more obvious in game 4.

Game 3

Woz- 13 Loes u - 12
http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120619-142314-8a98fec5.html

IGG race.  I open silver/HT, while she goes oracle/ht.  I win the curse split 7/3 as loes abandons IGG for dutchies when we were pretty close.  I am somehow able to consistently get Dutchies at the end, while she slows to estates.  Three piles - Curse, IGG, and Estates.  Pretty much, I win becasue I went first.

Game 4

Loes u -88 Woz 28
http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120619-145804-9f6bf38a.html

At one point, I was behind something like 53-2.  Started getting cursed early.  Turns 5,6 and 8 I only had 2 copper, and was unable to do anything.  Loes, on the other hand, pretty much dominated me.  I started getting desperate and buying silly things.  Also, due to my lack of focus, thought that the fairgrounds was a farmland, and started buying them with no support.  I closed the gap by realizing this and buying estates and dutchies.  Losing by only 60 here was a miracle.  Around turn 8 I wanted to cry and hide under a rock.  Anyway, this leads us to the 5th and final game.

Game 5

Woz 36 - Loes u 22
http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120619-150320-50f66ce8.html

I see Vault, with Spice Merchant and Stables and I figure that its going to be a quick one.  I got out a little faster, and ride the Vault to a victory.  Had the starting order been switched, I am not sure I would still have won. 

After a bit of a miscommunication about the starting time (becoming a theme for me), we finished in about 40 minutes.  Loes u was a great competitor. 

Any input would be appreciated, but I am not sure my strategies can be fixed or tweaked by a paragraph.

[edit - posted game logs]
[edit 2 - changed the gender on pronouns that referred to my opponent]

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GokoDom / Re: IsoDom 5: Round 1 Thread
« on: June 15, 2012, 08:06:57 am »
Thanks for the great games, Grujah.  I won much by luck, and got to see how develop can be valuable.  Any other input on game logs would be appreciated.

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Game Reports / Re: Etiquette, or What did I do wrong?
« on: June 14, 2012, 02:28:37 pm »
You Mama so worthless ... That she upgrades to a curse.
You Mama so fat... that she can't expand because she's already bigger than a colony.

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Game Reports / Re: Etiquette, or What did I do wrong?
« on: June 14, 2012, 11:51:07 am »
As for the time difference. I finished, and went to look at the game log.  Came back and that was there.  I usually don't talk at all, and was surprised to see this, after zero conversation during the game.  Even if it was a faux pas to gg, I didn't think it deserved that response.  Anyway, just checking to see if something was obvious.  As for the potion, not sure what I was thinking, but I also don't see how that would anger the other player.  Oh well.

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Game Reports / Etiquette, or What did I do wrong?
« on: June 14, 2012, 11:08:43 am »
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201206/14/game-20120614-080440-e6bd2b76.html



Not sure what I did her, but the player ends with:
10:55 Wizard of Woz: gg
11:04 Bengoshi: hey dude, go fuck yourself, asshole

I am new to ISO and want to be a considerate player.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks. 

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Dominion Isotropic / Re: Sentiments to Isotropic (and Dougz)
« on: June 06, 2012, 02:47:09 pm »
Can someone update me?  Is isotropic going away? Where is the new spot to play Dominion?

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Introductions / Wizard of Woz Intro
« on: June 06, 2012, 01:43:55 pm »
Hello everyone.  I am new to this board and pretty new to Isotropic, with about 200 games in at this point.  I've been playing Dominion for about 2 years, mostly at holidays with my brother-in-law.  I live in NW PA. 
I am having some trouble getting to the next level in the game right now.  My stratigies are, it seems, just a card behind.  I can't seem to get the hang of building a mega-turn deck.  I think I get distracted early by cards that are mostly not going to help, and those cards slow me down enough at the end to get beat.  I'll try to post some logs on here to see if anyone can throw me some quick suggestions. 
See you on Iso.

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GokoDom / Re: IsoDom 5: Sign-Up Thread (ENDS 09 June)
« on: June 05, 2012, 09:35:09 am »
I would love to be in, if there is still room.

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Game Reports / Re: Grand Market + Apprentice + Bank
« on: May 31, 2012, 08:54:38 am »
Great post.  I am still pretty new, and these game summaries really help me to see combos and strategies.  Thanks.

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Mafia Game Threads / Re: Mafia I: Murder in the Gardens signups
« on: May 11, 2012, 04:57:19 pm »
I'm new here, but I am definitely interested.

I'm in, if you don't mind.

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