There should probably be a thread to discuss, "what would you do in this specific situation"? So, lets use this thread.
I had a tough choice today:
I have Mathematics and The Wheel on my board (as my only top cards). The 1 pile was depleted (mostly into our score piles), the 2 pile had 6 cards. Fermentation was either in the deck, or was the "2" achievement. I had Currency (age 2, one leaf) in my hand.
My choice: keep drawing with the wheel, to hopefully grab fermentation? Or start teching with Mathematics?
Things to consider:
There is a 1/7 chance fermentation is not in the deck
Icons: I had no leaves, but my opponent only had 1 or 2. (Most of them were in the various score piles.) I could control leaves once I got fermentation, but I would have to take meld actions to do so.
Math: I already had the 2 in hand, ready to go.
My decision: I went with Mathematics. Would others have done differently?
Just played a game against ehunt and noticed a slight error of the ingame logging of Mapmaking.
On turn 10 I received a message something along the lines of "You transfer Domestication[1] from your score pile to Thisisnotasmile's". It did, in fact, get transferred to ehunt's score pile (as it should have), it was just logged wrong. The end game log is correct though.
It happens. It's probably not the worst lucksack possible in the game, though. Playing a weak opening against Domestication/Clothing, and failing to draw any colors to block Monumental Clothing, and insta losing, strikes me as sadder because you didn't have any chance at all to avoid it.
Just got back on... is everyone reset to level 0?No, I didn't lose any levels.
GendoIkari, I agree with your second point. Eventually, the novice player will get a can't-lose Mountebank/Lighthouse opening that you just can't do anything about. The wins don't budge your ranking northward, and the losses send your skill plummeting and uncertainty up. Meanwhile, the wins inflict you with just-won second-seat status against the next player that comes along.
As to how long to keep playing in the face of a bad night, interesting point. I guess that probably depends on each player's individual reactions more than I might have thought at first.
Develop gains you 2 cards, so there are probably a few rush strategies that would work thanks to this card.
For instance: Silk Road rush:
Open Develop/random $4, if they collide, Develop the $4 into a random $5 + Develop which go on top. Next turn Develop the $5 into a Gold and a Silk Road (or yet another random $4).
First priority is probably to get all or close to all the Develops, then start Developing Develops into Silk Road/Estate for 5VP a turn. If the other guy is building a normal deck that can get 4 Provinces he'll stall and ... start to buy Silk Roads... yeah, it's probably not a very good plan
Here's a sample solitaire game:
http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201202/06/game-20120206-011106-be30a405.html
