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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Dominion Card Picker (forked from veto thread)

« on: February 16, 2012, 08:14:11 pm »

Yes, you got it right. Release date seems plausible to me, but the exact order of the expansions isnt the matter as long as they are sorted by expansion. And yes, a big box would be really nice nowadays :-)

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Council Room Feedback / Re: New councilroom feature: historical level/#games graphs

« on: February 16, 2012, 08:11:24 pm »

Would it also be possible to view the mean skill in addition of level?

And is it only me or does loading a personal CR page a huge amount of time lately?

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Dominion Card Picker (forked from veto thread)

« on: February 16, 2012, 07:59:21 pm »

Hey,

this is a really cool tool. I really like the veto idea for RL multiplayer games for 4 player games with favorites like Sea Hag etc. Also the Platinum/Colony decider.

I just imagine, if it would be possible to view and sort the cards for expansion? e.g.: 3 cards form base, 2 cards from Intrigue etc. (With 6 expansions its getting a pain in the ass getting the right cards from all differrent expansions).

thx for working this out

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2011 / Re: 2011 DominionStrategy.com Championships: Final Four

« on: January 27, 2012, 10:46:03 pm »

Haha funny games, I really laughed my ass of in G3 and G4 Those commentary before about Tactician and Pirate Ship and then get crushed by a decent engine. Well played RJ!

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Dominion Isotropic / Re: Attention-whoring thread.... I did it!!

« on: January 26, 2012, 10:12:49 pm »

levels...pfff...mean skill is the thing guys, level is for noobs :-)

Unlucky, that I didnt reach the 60,0 mark some time ago, only got to 59,7 (before my match against RisingJaguar).

Some weeks ago Dekker had a skill over 60, but +-23 deviation

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Dominion Articles / Re: The Key to Big Money Part I: Money Density

« on: January 23, 2012, 06:45:22 pm »

Nice theoretical article, but I never actually calculated something like this ingame. Its kind of worthless imho. The practical things are right so, that slim decks have more problem with greening than larger decks.

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Dominion Videos and Streams / Re: Getting in on the action

« on: January 17, 2012, 09:20:52 pm »

Good work! Finally a really nice high quality. In my opinion you covered the most strategic aspects of the game.

To the actual game: Just not sure, why you guys get Margrave over Smithy in a double Tactician game (could get MoneyVillages instead of the bacis ones and Smithy instead of Margrave). And imo a overall low ammount of villages in terms of supporting mass bridges and smithy. Otherwise well played of course.

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Dominion Isotropic / Re: Level 6s pulling 4 provinces in 13 turns

« on: January 17, 2012, 05:33:23 pm »

Thats not a new phenomenom. Sometimes when I played level 0 players a while ago I only thought "...man, when is he making a mistake finally???" And sometimes they really tend to do the major things like I would play them (not only on BM). Kinda puzzling, but this just happens sometimes :-)

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Amb/Amb or Amb/Silver?

« on: January 16, 2012, 08:06:45 pm »

Most of the time I go Amb/Silver. Most of you said the things that would me bring to Amb/Amb as well (cheap villages, or being second player).

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2011 / Re: 2011 DominionStrategy.com Championships: Final Four

« on: January 13, 2012, 12:15:47 pm »

Haha, I guess all betting WW because he has most posts here and published some gameplay commentaries :-)

Go RisingJaguar!

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2011 / Re: Schedule and Results, Part II

« on: January 09, 2012, 03:05:38 pm »

Really good writeup of the games, also the commentary was fun to watch. The first 2 games felt verly unlucky for Fabian after watching the videos, even when your analysis of G2 with his Money is right. G5 was really disappointing for me, that Fabian didnt go for Bishop. But hey, it was a live game, and I remember my G3 vs RisingJaguar as well, where I did a huge mistake in opening. Being on tilt after being down 1:3 wont help either there...

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2011 / Re: Schedule and Results, Part II

« on: December 28, 2011, 09:07:45 pm »

Okay, now some of my ideas to the games:

G1: I really hate going Amb/Amb, but with being second player I took the risk. I even more hate Amb/bigmoney, and you see why this is so. If the other can draw his deck like whole mid to late game you will win most of the times.

G2: I expected a Minion Mirror, therefor I got a Jester first. When RJ went BigMoney I thought at first, that it could turn out troublesome because Jester sucks in this matchup, but giving him a Curse first really helped there.

G3: Nothing to add then I SUCK. I just did not finish my thoughts about openings dreaming of Peddlers already, but man, this was embarassing. Not getting to 5 anytime soon didnt made this better.

G4: I didnt like the idea of many terminal carddraw along the goons (where you will need a huge amount of villages to get the engine started). Besides being first this time I got the Goons later, played them later (besides one drawing dead by RJ because of his carddraw). I did thought that I might even lose with more points between us.

G5: Really complicated Endgame decissions about who can end etc. We both went a while in thinktank, but all in all one could not really know how much the other is getting with Farmland and Horn of Plenty shenangians and lots of carddraw. Being player 1 gave me this win I think.

G6: Dominion just sucks sometimes. I played Black Market much earlier and got the holy crap 3 times, while he just opens the nuts. T6 Forge was basically gg.

G7: Doing nothing in the beginning like in G6 was really annoying, being stucked at 2. First player advantage was just gone. Drawing 5 terminals without any Fishing Villages in T16 made me literally cry, as it was the deciding phase of the game. That RJ got his Workshop in the last turn as well sealed the deal here.

I was really speechless after this series. One game I threw away (g3), but getting 2 losses out of the last 2 games decided in such a way annoyed me a bit 
Nonetheless RJ played some really good Dominion starting from G3 onwards.

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2011 / Re: Schedule and Results, Part II

« on: December 27, 2011, 08:24:25 pm »

Okay guys, I am done. Luck was not on my side today, RisingJaguar managed to beat me 4:3 in some good games. I will comment when he hopefully writes his little report 

Well played RisingJaguar, you dealt me more losses than in the whole rounds before together 

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Dominion General Discussion / Happy Christmas

« on: December 24, 2011, 05:40:39 pm »

I would like to thank rrenaud and theory for the blog, the wonderful forum and the councilroom-stuff for putting so much effort into a strategy game 

Wish you a merry Christmas and a good start in the new start and of course to all users here as well.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Province / Colony Games

« on: December 23, 2011, 08:44:26 pm »

Variance is just so, so high, and it seems like decisions are nearly irrelevant. Engines are almost never viable and BM/X reigns supreme.

When you say something like that, which is quite wrong and then posting a "badbeat story like this", what are you expecting?

Of course you have slightly more time in Colony games, but if your opponent lucks himself to Platinum like Turn 6 or 7 he is as likely to win. And no comment to that troll thing. You maybe write your arguments about your topic, but I see only whine so far.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Province / Colony Games

« on: December 23, 2011, 07:22:49 pm »

[...]but the short game length makes this irrelevant. Just one or two slightly sub/above-par draws is enough to swing an entire game.

I loled, you call 27 turns short?

Any why are you angry, when a player who got at least 10 levels more than you beats you? I didnt even look at the log, but I am sure, that you didnt play this game really good.

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Dominion Articles / Re: Combo: Salvager / Spice Merchant

« on: December 23, 2011, 02:29:30 pm »

Is it suprising that 2 trashers, which are good together (one for coppers, other for estates and Spice Merchant) are nice? Imo not. Spice (pun intended) this up with some nice engine cards and you will win versus some BigMoney stuff.

Only because this isnt superior to BigMoney-X doenst mean, that it is bad at all. Even Chapel-BigMoney isnt really good, but you dont say anyhing versus Chapel. All in all I like the idea of combining these cards, its a bit like Moneylender/Outlook.

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2011 / Re: Schedule and Results, Part II

« on: December 21, 2011, 12:43:26 pm »

Okay, thats good to here, that I made the right decision with my intuition :-) Thanks for the effort of simulating.

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2011 / Re: Schedule and Results, Part II

« on: December 21, 2011, 09:01:42 am »

@chwhite: Of course the Embargo wasnt smart at all, but even when you make the same opening you wont have many chances to win this considering Exclams draw. This was pretty much over by turn 5.

Game 7, love your play. Really well done!

@ Exclams: nice review and I like the idea of not telling the result until the very end. Makes it somehow more entertaining to read the conclusions etc. 

And Geronimoo, please have a short look on my last game vs stefan_k about the openings etc. thx so far

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Council Room Feedback / Re: Player pages suggestion

« on: December 20, 2011, 08:47:10 pm »

We are in the internet, its cool to have a nickname started with a lower case 

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2011 / Re: Schedule and Results, Part II

« on: December 20, 2011, 04:37:52 pm »

Witch: painted_cow 4 vs stefan_k 1

Veto, same starting hand, point counter as always 

1:0 http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/20/game-20111220-120600-505c3f38.html

stefan_k went 1st. Embassy BigMoney, with some Warehouses. I tried to get a Province asap, trying to put some pressure. And it worked, since stefan_k bought Duchies very early. I dont buy more than 1 Gold, because with so many Silvers and Embassy I felt I wont need them.

2:0 http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/20/game-20111220-122448-a9317df0.html

stefan_k went 1st. I took a really slow approach here with Potion/Trade Route vs Militia/Blackmarket. His terminals didnt collide early and he got a fast start. Meanwhile I got me some Scrying Pools, but ended with doing nothing besides trashing often like 2 times in the early game. Imho his Inns werent that great, and his deck didnt get much better from there on, whereas the PoolEngine fired up soon, allowing me to draw my whole deck soon. I could get 6:4 Peddlers and managed to draw a Salvager (hi Peddlers) and KC from the Black Market, which was indeed nice. When I finally could assemble these pieces together I bought 4 Provinces in one turn (salvaging 3 Peddlers via KC).

2:1 http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/20/game-20111220-130522-970180a5.html

stefan_k went first. This was pretty much a Mirrormatch, with a huge draw engine possible. Going second in such games is really bad, since a 3-pile-ending was easily to reach with us both going for many enginecards and Jester around. In the end I thought I had won, since I could 3 pile. My hand were like 2 Jester and had 2 Wharfs from last turn. All I needed was a Village type card or a Silver. Funnily my deck didnt deliver anything but greens, a curse another Jester and a Margrave :-( Stefan_k could pile this easily then...Felt really unlucky for me, but luckily it didnt decide the whole outcome.

3:1 http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/20/game-20111220-131547-32b07c15.html

painted_cow went 1st. I opted for Steward/Silver, he for Steward/Potion (Alchemists). Since I got 4 Coppers and Steward in T3 I decided not to trash anything and bought Gold. From there on I played VaultBigmoney and used the Steward as terminal Silver each time. Stefan missed his first Alchemist with 2P and was really behind from there on. The board doesnt hat any +buy, so imho the Alchemists werent too great anyway to overcome the disadvantage of the slow start.

4:1 http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/20/game-20111220-132642-b8a3af26.html

stefan_k went first. We both had 5/2. Really interesting board where I appreciate the opinion of Geronimoos and the simulator. I opted for Vault/Crossroad and simple BigMoney (ignoring Nobles) from there on getting another Vault later on. Stefan bought Mandarin/JoaT/Crossroads, getting 2nd Jack soon and 3 Nobles later on. At first I was a bit scared because he could happily discard in my Vault and draw stuff again with Jack, but somehow I managed to get 5:3 Province Split he could not overcome.

Thanks for the games!

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: How long would it take for you to go from Level 0 to your current level?

« on: December 20, 2011, 11:08:16 am »

I had also said 1 or 2 weeks when you play much.

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2011 / Re: Schedule and Results: 2011 DominionStrategy.com Championships

« on: December 16, 2011, 09:21:41 pm »

How about some kind of coverage of finals or quick-interviews of the Top 4/8. Just to spice things a bit up. I like the idea of streams in finals too.

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Other Games / Re: MTG

« on: December 16, 2011, 11:18:07 am »

For some years now some GPs in the vicinity, this year that was Prague and Milan. Mostly for meeting friends, the competetiv mindset is a bit gone, even when I hope to make Day2 again :-)

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2011 / Re: Schedule and Results: 2011 DominionStrategy.com Championships

« on: December 16, 2011, 11:14:05 am »

I guess massive likes coming up on this