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Dominion League / Re: Standings & Results
« on: October 20, 2014, 08:51:05 pm »
C2: mpsprs vs. zporiri  6-0

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Dominion League / Re: Season 4 - Announcing livestreams
« on: October 20, 2014, 06:34:46 pm »
I'll be kicking off the season with my first ever livestreams.  At 7:30 EST (vs. zporiri ~1 hour from this post), and then at 9:00 EST (vs. jsh, who will also be streaming ~ 2.5 hours from this post).  Given the relative rankings, watch his to see skill, and mine to see chaotic no clue style play).

http://www.twitch.tv/mpsprs

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Dominion League / Re: Standings & Results
« on: October 11, 2014, 09:42:51 am »
Group C2:  mpsprs vs. KingZog3  4-2

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Goko Dominion Online / Re: Log Search Engine
« on: September 29, 2014, 05:17:12 pm »
So I don't know whether you misread my code or went the extra mile to find the problem, but either way thanks! :D

I did dig into tornadoweb.  I never found the full def you found (where it deals with the strip=True flag), but I did see the fact that there was a strip=True default parameter, and made an intelligent guess. 

I still don't have any real skills at actually coding.  Debugging I'm probably better at.  Maybe if I find lots of time I'll learn the coding side.

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Dominion League / Re: Season 3 Game Reports and Discussion- C
« on: September 29, 2014, 06:59:56 am »
re: TheBlankman vs. mpsprs  (logs are in his post)

Well-played.  I thought you played strong and steady matches, while I played rather erratically, and the run of luck I'd been on didn't counterbalance that.  (Which isn't to say I had bad luck-I think I had mediocre luck, but in the previous rounds it had been quite good).

Game 1: 
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Lighthouse, Village, Navigator, Nomad Camp, Baker, Band of Misfits, Catacombs, Mystic, Grand Market, Hoard
I had a fast start here, so I went with catacombs/hoard to just race.  I still played erratically (buying other components), but I hit 8 with two hoards very early, and that cushion propelled me through.

Game 2:
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Duchess, Native Village, Loan, Swindler, Advisor, Quarry, Taxman, Counterfeit, Hunting Party, Vault
Badly outplayed here.  The quarry crushed me.  I agree with theblankman about giving him vaults, but really, it didn't matter at that point.  I never seem to do well in swindler games.

Game 3:
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Poor House, Baron, Noble Brigand, Talisman, Taxman, Cache, Cultist, Merchant Ship, Pillage, Treasury
theblankman hit my silver with taxman in the first shuffle, and it snowballed.  The ruins split wasn't horrible (6-4), but my economy was never there.  By the time I got a platinum, I think I was down about 4 platinums and 3 colonies.  My taxman felt like it collided with cultists almost every turn, so it did almost nothing.  Maybe it should have just been a silver?  If there were a game where I could curse my luck, this would be it. 

Game 4:
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Transmute, University, Oracle, Bridge, Horse Traders, Island, Spy, Wandering Minstrel, Duke, Tribute
I did try to build an engine-y type thing.  Never got it going, and as theblankman points out, it isn't strong enough to compete with duchy duke anyway.  1P twice early on didn't help, but I wasn't going to win this one anyway.

Game 5:
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Courtyard, Crossroads, Philosopher's Stone, JackOfAllTrades, Baker, Bandit Camp, Mandarin, Market, Torturer, Adventurer
I think theblankman is right that two jacks is two many if I am trying to also run a partial engine.  I did stay close here, which makes me think someone with skill at this kind of engine would pull it off.  I am able to double duchy in PPR to take the lead, but theblankman gets some huge crossroads to get up to double province to win.

Game 6:
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Scheme, Feodum, Counting House, Ghost Ship, Harvest, Mint, Mountebank, Outpost, Royal Seal, Prince
My first Prince game!  Only one target (not that I remembered the 4 cost restriction to begin with), so anything good is likely to take too long to setup.  Only outpost for buy, and this probably isn't a great game for prince.  But it's my first time with it, so am I going to go for it?  Of course I am!  And I hit a fairly early 8.  If I had been clever enough to then prince a scheme, and scheme a mountebank for a while, I would have been in pretty good shape.  But I screw up my first prince, and there's 8 coins wasted.  I play straight for a bit, but I'm falling behind, so I make a desperate of another prince to eventually hit theblankman with ghost ship every turn.  I get it going eventually, but too late, as he can run the duchies. 

Several fun games, and a fun set.

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Goko Dominion Online / Re: Log Search Engine
« on: September 28, 2014, 03:48:21 pm »
Anyone else with HTML and/or Python skills wants to look into it?
https://github.com/aiannacc/goko-dominion-tools/blob/master/gdt/logsearch/logsearch_handler.py
https://github.com/aiannacc/goko-dominion-tools/blob/master/web/logsearch.html

I don't have either skill, really, so feel free to ignore this.  But it looks to me like the self.get_argument in line 53 defaults to stripping white space from the beginning and and of the string.  Certainly this behavior is what I see.  I can add whitespace to the front and rear of my name and still find all my games.

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Other Games / Re: "Bare-bones" games sporting a single mechanic
« on: September 23, 2014, 03:47:19 pm »
In fact, it is illegal to make a highly unusual bid.
Your opponents may demand an explanation if they suspect you're trying to use secret bids to let your partner know you have certain cards.

More precisely, the opponents may always demand an explanation from your partner of what your bid means (according to your partnership agreement).  You are free to bid ridiculously, provided partner is also just as surprised as the opponents are by what you actually have (and subject to the proviso that if you do this often, your partner can start to expect it, and hence it becomes an unwritten part of the partnership agreement which must be disclosed).

These bids are called psychs.  (In the spirit of bridge's full disclosure, there are certain types of psychs that are entirely barred).

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Dominion League / Re: Standings & Results
« on: September 11, 2014, 09:20:28 pm »
C2:  mpsprs vs. Breezy D   4.5-1.5

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By similar reasoning, I don't bother doing crossword puzzles, playing Sudoku, or even working out.

I know you're being sarcastic, but when I did the Project Euler problem that involved writing a computer program to solve sudokus, I no longer had fun doing them myself.

I had a similar experience (though it's probably more accurate to say that I no longer had as much fun doing  sudokus when I realized that I could write such a program easily).  I have no such illusions about my ability to program a crossword solver or a dominion AI, so crosswords and dominion retain their 'fun' value, despite the existence of programs that perform these tasks. 

As far as the salvager feature, I think my (weak) preference would be along the lines of SCSN's thoughts.  When I play, I often play in a distracted setting, and like being able to (attempt to) make good decisions with the information I could have if I were fully focused.  I'll admit to suspecting that, if I played IRL more often (at all?) I'd be much more sympathetic with AdamH's view.

And finally, when I do want to solve a sudoku, I solve these: http://www.amazon.com/Sudoku-Masterpieces-Elegant-Challenges-Lovers/dp/1402771924.  The puzzles are excellent and have different (and unusual) topologies which hold my interest.

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Dominion League / Re: Standings & Results
« on: September 02, 2014, 09:51:36 pm »
Group C2:  mpsprs vs. Temron  6-0

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Dominion League / Re: Standings & Results
« on: August 20, 2014, 07:58:00 pm »
D3:  mpsprs vs. jothemieden: 5-1

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Dominion League / Re: Standings & Results
« on: August 04, 2014, 09:28:29 pm »
D3:  mpsprs vs. AHoppy: 4.5-1.5

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Dominion League / Re: Standings & Results
« on: July 23, 2014, 12:12:53 pm »
D3:  mpsprs vs. shraeye:  3-3

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Hearthstone / Re: Hearthstone Streaming
« on: July 21, 2014, 02:48:53 pm »
Oops; never ended up doing this.  So I owe you all one morning of streaming.  How about Wednesday morning?

So long as we still get our dominion league match in.

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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff
« on: July 20, 2014, 09:29:37 pm »
That's stupid.  Log should always mean natural log. Other bases are only used for edge cases, and of course they're simply a multiple anyway.

I'm pretty sure that popular convention says that log(x) is base 10 unless otherwise specified.  That's what I learned, that's what my calculators did, and that's what Google does with their online calculator.

Depends on the field.

I've seen several people say this on this forum and I would love to know in what field(s) this is correct.  Is it a mathematician thing, perhaps?  Between degrees in chemistry, chemical engineering, and neuroscience, including two years of physics and two years of calculus, plus a decade and a half of various reading, I have never encountered this.

Mathematician here.  When teaching calculus, log to me means base 10, and ln means base e.  Beyond that level, I almost never say "natural log", I just say "log" and hope the listener assumes it's base e.  I still might write ln though (with a cursive l, so it won't look like a 1).

In any case, mostly the constant multiple difference doesn't matter anyway in my experience.  I imagine that would be different as soon as you try to apply it to the "real" world.

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Dominion League / Re: Game reports & discussion: D + E
« on: July 11, 2014, 10:32:20 am »
Here's a report about my match vs. KingZog in D3.

Game 1: http://www.gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?20140708/log.51467e35e4b0de86766bf3f3.1404871584392.txt

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Pearl Diver, Hermit, Steward, Conspirator, Envoy, Militia, Sea Hag, Duke, Junk Dealer, Royal Seal
We both opened Militia/Steward, and consequently we both ignored Sea Hag.  Eventually we both settled on a single envoy and money.  Our decks were fairly similar, but KingZog had an envoy turn hit only 7, and got militia-ed out of another Province, and I snuck out a victory as second player.

Game 2:  http://www.gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?20140708/log.51467e35e4b0de86766bf3f3.1404871945061.txt

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University, Warehouse, Workshop, Farming Village, Gardens, Horse Traders, Spice Merchant, Contraband, Festival, Mountebank
We both went workshop/gardens (after opening horse traders with our four for some reason.  I'll admit to simply not seeing the workshop until turn 2).  I won the workshop split, but they collided often, and KingZog split the gardens and won the estate split, so again second player won.

Game 3: http://www.gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?20140708/log.51467e35e4b0de86766bf3f3.1404872576024.txt

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Scheme, Farming Village, Horse Traders, Navigator, Salvager, Tournament, Treasure Map, Explorer, Knights, Adventurer
KingZog went first, had 5 coppers and grabbed Sylvia.  I went HT/Silver, and on turn 3 KingZog hit the HT with Sylvia, buying a gold.  I had 4, knew I had 4 turn four as well, felt I was way behind, so I grabbed two Treasure Maps and crossed my fingers.  They collided turn 7 (with no assistance).  I was also grabbing tournaments and provinces, and got the prizes.  KingZog grabbed more knights to counter, but the luck was too much to counter.  I feel bad about winning this one; I played to what I thought was my out, but still, brutal for him.  Oh, and yet again, second player one.

Game 4: http://www.gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?20140708/log.51467e35e4b0de86766bf3f3.1404873177532.txt

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Embargo, Sage, Tunnel, Wishing Well, Moneylender, Taxman, Cartographer, Contraband, Soothsayer, Adventurer
KingZog went first, but I had the 2/5 split to pick up an early Soothsayer.  This led to me winning the curse (and gold) split.  I picked up a cartographer to help filter, while KingZog went Adventurer.  I think I like the cartographer better here, since it won't skip the soothsayer, and lets me skip copper if need be.  Certainly it worked here, as I cruised to a relatively comfortable win.  Four games, four second player wins.

Game 5: http://www.gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?20140708/log.51467e35e4b0de86766bf3f3.1404874635156.txt

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Cellar, Urchin, Alchemist, Horse Traders, Procession, Rats, Baker, Cartographer, Stables, Goons
Baker board.  I started Urchin/HT, saving the token, while KingZog went Urchin/Stables.  I got an early Goods, and we both trashed down with Mercenary, but KingZog did so more effectively.  I think the early stables helped here, and I wish I had gotten one.  Eventually he grabbed two Goons (to play with Necropolis).  I started to green frantically, but I cashed in my coins for a double province turn too early I think, choked, and KingZog's better deck sealed the win.  Five games, and five second player wins.  Maybe first-player advantage doesn't exist in D3.

Game 6: http://www.gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?20140708/log.51467e35e4b0de86766bf3f3.1404875102487.txt

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Haven, Storeroom, Woodcutter, Scout, Thief, Ill-Gotten Gains, Library, Merchant Ship, Rebuild, Hoard
Despite being a shelters game, we both played for rebuild.  I opened Silver/Woodcutter, and KingZog opened Silver/Storeroom.  I picked up a rebuild on turns 3 and 4, hoping I could buy some estates before too long, while KingZog got Rebuild/Estate.  Alas, turn 5 had both rebuilds and the overgrown estate (and I neglected to play a rebuild to force a reshuffle).  Nevertheless, I hit 5 much more regularly throughout the game, and felt fairly comfortable-I won the duchy split, and then the province split, and hence the game, and the match (finally the first player won).

Thanks to KingZog for the games.  If and when we meet for season 3, we can hope for some more engine-like games (we only saw two villages) and you can destroy me to make up for the BM/slog games or irrational luck that let me get the victory. 


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Hearthstone / Re: Arena General Discussion
« on: July 10, 2014, 06:30:59 pm »
Just finished up my most recent arena: http://arenamastery.com/ELP6

When I drafted it, I thought it would be a disaster.  I was offered very few 2-drops, and not many hugely powerful minions either.  Somehow I squeezed 7 wins out of it though.  I decided to test out streaming/recording for the last four games (2-2).  I'd love any feedback if you have the time/energy/whatever.  Alas, my connection seemed to reset a few times during the broadcast, so the video is split into 5 parts with 6 second breaks between each piece.  You can find them all at my twitch page: http://www.twitch.tv/mpsprs/

As to the recent topics:  I also saw a bunch of druids.  Four in 10 games, lost to two. 

Frost Wolf Warlord vs. SHK:  I had FWW.  With this deck, I'd have preferred SHK, since I had so few cheap minions.  My recollection from the unrecorded games is that this held true: FWW got played as a 4-4 multiple times (and the sun cleric as an expensive 3-2 regularly as well).  It did have it's moment though in a later game.  Then in my last, facing what I guessed was mirror entity, I'd have preferred SHK again (though it turned out not to matter).  I guess I'd say that if it was reasonably close in this deck, FWW is probably my preferred choice.

Edit:  And the pack at the end gave me my second legendary!  You are reading the post of the proud owner of Millhouse Manastorm!!!

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Dominion League / Re: Standings & Results
« on: July 08, 2014, 11:10:39 pm »
Group D3:  mpsprs-KingZog: 4-2

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It is not letting me make my picks for the round of 16 yet.  Is anyone else having this problem?

Yes.

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Hearthstone / Re: Arena General Discussion
« on: June 25, 2014, 12:06:23 pm »
After having all of my arenas go 3 wins or fewer (except a freak 7 win arena in my third effort-no idea how that happened), my last went 4-3, and now I'm in the midst of a 4-0 arena run! 

Still going!  I'm up to 8-2 now.  Both losses were to rogues.  In general I seem to struggle against them.  In both games I got destroyed early by backstabs, and since I have no late game, it was game over.

On the other hand, I had my luckiest win ever: Against a druid, I got done to 1 health with an empty board while I was topdecking.  My opponent was still in the 20's.  Drew Arcane Intellect, which drew Arcane Intellect and something, which drew silverback patriarch.   Opp hit the silverback for 1.  Gradually I pulled back even on the board, as he gradually whittled down the patriarch.  I was helped by a water elemental to slow things down.  Finally got a Fen Creeper as my second to last card, sent everything to face.    He couldn't empty my board, and conceded before what was necessarily my last turn (since fatigue would kill me on the next).  Thrilling!

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sure looked like a bite
I agree.  I'd like to see the angle from the front if they have it though.

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Hearthstone / Re: Arena General Discussion
« on: June 21, 2014, 03:32:58 pm »
It's a pretty solid draft- there are a good number of 2 drops and spells to give you early game aggression, that many players may not be able to survive. However there are maybe a couple too many 5s and not really any really big end game minions, so you will suffer a bit if you start getting to turn 10 later on more often. Gurubashi can often suffice though as an effective 7 drop 5-6

Yeah.  I wasn't offered much on the top end at all.  I passed up a Venture Co (for Flamestrike) and a few other core hounds, and that's it.  And you have hit exactly my reason for taking a second gurubashi so late.  In any case, so far I think double fireball has ended all my matches.  I've been guarding them zealously to make up for my lack of late game.

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Hearthstone / Re: Arena General Discussion
« on: June 21, 2014, 01:12:04 pm »
After having all of my arenas go 3 wins or fewer (except a freak 7 win arena in my third effort-no idea how that happened), my last went 4-3, and now I'm in the midst of a 4-0 arena run!  I've been savoring it by going slow, so it may be a bit before I finish.  I'd love feedback on my choices.  Any thoughts on what is making this work out so much better, and also what probably would have been even better.  Here's the arena: http://arenamastery.com/OMDf  I figure I'm already raising my average, so anything else is just gravy from here on out.

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Dominion League / Re: Standings & Results thread
« on: June 20, 2014, 01:04:42 am »
D4-5 (mpsprs) vs. D4-6 (BraveBear): 3-3

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Hearthstone / Re: IsoHearth I: Signup Thread
« on: June 19, 2014, 01:46:49 pm »
mpsprs#1749, NA, 20, UTC-4

I expect I'll be doing a hefty amount of learning.

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