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Dominion General Discussion / Donald X on Rebuild

« on: December 10, 2013, 07:05:56 pm »

I found this on BGG and I thought people might be interested in it: Donald X talks about Rebuild on BGG:
http://boardgamegeek.com/article/14094365#14094365

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In retrospect the card is clearly too powerful for how interesting it is. Which is to say, the most powerful cards should make for lots of interesting gameplay and different situations; Chapel for example may be strong, but the games play out differently depending on the rest of the cards. With Rebuild the rest of the cards are too unlikely to get involved in your Rebuild deck.

For casual players it probably isn't a problem, unless one of them reads online about how to use Rebuild. For serious players you will probably have more fun just not playing with Rebuild after you've had the experience. I would rather that not be the case, but well at least there are 34 other kingdom cards in Dark Ages.

Too bad, I had a distant hope there was something people hadn't found yet.

Other Games / Galaxy Trucker and Through The Ages apps

« on: December 10, 2013, 04:51:08 pm »

I have posted about this before in a hijacked thread, but I found some news today:
Videos of a pretty advanced version of Galxaxy Trucker and TTA early in development in here: http://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/25619/bgg-con-iii-galaxy-trucker-through-the-ages-infamy
Sadly, the release date of Galaxy Trucker has been delayed to next year. They sure aren't rushing things, which is probably not a bad thing.

Non-Mafia Game Threads / Tash-Kalar IV: Impererator yed vs Ghost of Mars Highlands

« on: December 06, 2013, 12:50:26 pm »

Tash-Kalar game between yed and ghostofmars

Current Tasks: Green Conquest, Center Cross, Line Dominance
Next task: Red Legends

Game board: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuoXfjzSnYbsdDFyQnB2dEFlQlJfc3diZU1xSVQxNHc#gid=0

For cards in your hand check private message from poster of this topic.

yed's Imperial deck
1 - Infantry Captain__
2 - Hypnotist_________
3 - Knight____________
4 - Summoner__________
5 - Herald____________
6 - Messenger_________
7 - Gun Tower_________
8 - Chronicler________
9 - Swordmaster_______
10 - Master of Intrigue
11 - Champion__________
12 - Assassin__________
13 - Bomb______________
14 - Calavary Captain__
15 - High Priestess____

ghostofmars's Highland deck
1 - Wolf Rider____
2 - Ritual Master_
3 - War Drummer___
4 - War Summoner__
5 - Blood Shaman__
6 - Ritual Keeper_
7 - Mountain Troll
8 - Wild Eagle____
9 - Clan Axeman___
10 - Dire Wolf_____
11 - Warlord_______
12 - Clan Healer___
13 - Legend Slayer_
14 - Eagle Lord____
15 - Werewolf______

Legends deck
1 - Titan__________
2 - Fire Dragon____
3 - Leviathan______
4 - Angel Of Death_
5 - Time Elemental_
6 - Fire Elemental_
7 - Earth Elemental
8 - The Eldest Tree

Flares legend
25a = 2 upgr: You may do 1 standard leap with one of your common pieces. 5: Gain an action.
34a = 3 upgr: Place 1 common piece of your color on an empty square. 4: You may do 1 combat move or 2 standard moves, using your non-legendary pieces.
36a = 3 upgr: Place 1 common piece of your color on any empty square. 6: Place 1 common piece of your color on any empty square.
44a = 4 upgr: Place 1 common piece of yor color on any empty square. 4: Place 1 common piece of your color on any empty square.
44b = 4 upgr: Place 1 common piece of your color on any empty square, or upgrade 1 of your common pieces. 4: You may do 1 combat leap with one of your common pieces.
45a = 4 upgr: Place 1 common piece of yor color on any empty square. 5: Place 1 common piece of your color on any empty square, or convert 1 common enemy piece to your color.
45b = 4 upgr: Gain an action. 5: Place 1 common piece of your color on any empty square.
46a = 4 upgr: Place 1 common piece of your color on any empty square. 6: Upgrade 1 of your common pieces. Gain an action.
54a = 5 upgr: Place 1 heroic piece of your color on any empty square. 4: You may do 1 standard move and 1 combat move (in either order), using your common pieces.
Flares deck
1 - 46a
2 - 44b
3 - 34a
4 - 25a
5 - 44a
6 - 45b
7 - 45a
8 - 36a

Tasks deck
1 - Rainbow Dominance__
2 - Red Summoning______
3 - Green Legends______
4 - Colored Conquest___
5 - Diagonals__________
6 - Legendary Summoning
7 - Green Summoning____
8 - Destruction________
9 - Envelopment________
10 - Central Dominance__
11 - Imprisonment_______
12 - Heroic Destruction_
13 - Red Conquest_______
14 - Corner Chain_______
15 - Colored Summoning__
16 - Side Chain_________
17 - Heroic Devastation_
18 - End of Legends_____

Goko Dominion Online / Goko reverts fast rating decay

« on: September 21, 2013, 12:45:31 pm »

The rating decay when not playing has been reduced again: https://getsatisfaction.com/goko/topics/system_update_9_20_13

Goko Dominion Online / Goko: End of Summer Sale

« on: August 24, 2013, 08:21:56 pm »

I just received an email from Goko titled "End of Summer Sale".

Why didn't they ever tell me about the beginning?

Turns out it is in fact an End-of-Summer Sale. Anyone else got confused?

Here's what is about, if anyone is interested:

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Goko friends! We're celebrating a great Summer and the beginning of an even better Fall. We're giving an extra Dominion Expansion (for free!) to anyone that orders $20 or more of Dominion Expansions in the next 48 hours. If buying $20 of expansions means you've got them all, then we'll give you Promo Cards, Adventure Finales, or Zaps instead!

Seems pretty pointless anyway.

Feedback / Councilroom links gone?

« on: August 19, 2013, 10:59:11 am »

The isotropic username in a player's profile used to link to his councilroom page. Is there a reason why this was removed?

Non-Mafia Game Threads / Terra Mystica fds02

« on: August 08, 2013, 09:01:44 am »

Game link: http://terra.snellman.net/game/fds02
(note that the link is for viewing the game only, you need to access your own game page to make a move).

Non-Mafia Game Threads / Terra Mystica fds01

« on: August 08, 2013, 09:00:44 am »

Game link: http://terra.snellman.net/game/fds01
(note that the link is for viewing the game only, you need to access your own game page to make a move).

Puzzles and Challenges / How many Dominion cards can you name in 20 minutes? Sporcle

« on: July 28, 2013, 10:01:06 am »

http://www.sporcle.com/games/ostroffj/dominion

How many can you get?

I got 180/240. (should have been 181, but Mercenary is misspelled)

Forum Games / Terra Mystica V-infinity

« on: July 26, 2013, 12:22:54 pm »

It has been a while, but now that I have holidays, I think it's time for the next games of Terra Mystica.
Someone from BGG has written an online tool to play the game that we'll be using: http://terra.snellman.net/
Instructiona re linked there under "Help".
I will therefore need an email address of every player I believe.
So whos's in?

Edit: By the way, note that there has been a rule change for the Cultists: http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1009456/rules-update-for-cultists

Game Reports / My mind is kinda blown after this game

« on: July 13, 2013, 04:49:35 pm »

Take a close look at this board and try to figure out what will happen before clicking the link:
http://dom.retrobox.eu/?/20130713/log.505c626fa2e6c78ad2ed5aa6.1373748222157.txt

~~Waiting for Councilroom and achievements to come back, I think this one was missing in my list.~~v still one turn short.

Game Reports / Interesting Ambassador gam with Witch and Graverobber

« on: July 13, 2013, 02:49:21 pm »

I don't think I've ever seen a score graph like that:
http://dom.retrobox.eu/?/20130713/log.505c626fa2e6c78ad2ed5aa6.1373741180302.txt

Game Reports / Merchant Guild can be more awesome than I thought

« on: July 03, 2013, 05:39:08 pm »

http://dom.retrobox.eu/?/20130703/log.505c626fa2e6c78ad2ed5aa6.1372887270065.txt

I could have gotten 5 provinces on turn 11, but i miscalculated, thinking 36 would give me 6 of them.

Game Reports / In which i open Stonemason for $2 and end up with 7-VP gardens

« on: June 14, 2013, 05:31:46 am »

http://dominionlogs.goko.com//20130614/log.505c626fa2e6c78ad2ed5aa6.1371200924594.txt

We both didn't play this very good I think, but there's some interesting stuff in it. Exchanging an estate for 2 coppers is pretty good in a slog, and so is Masterpiece.

Goko Dominion Online / Guilds on Goko immediately after physical release

« on: June 05, 2013, 12:32:33 pm »

Goko stated that they plan to make Guilds available immediately after the physical release.
YAY.
https://getsatisfaction.com/goko/topics/guilds-1mh3vp

Dominion: Guilds Previews / Preview #1: Baker

« on: June 03, 2013, 09:44:29 am »

Quote from: Donald X.

Casimir III, greatest of the Polish kings, came into power in 1333. He took a country in ruins, and brought prosperity to it, while doubling its size, in part by claiming the Duchy of Halicz. Since I am previewing Dominion cards though, that's all pretty irrelevant.

Guilds is the 8th Dominion expansion. Man. That's a bunch of expansions. People always ask about a 9th expansion, and I always say, well who knows, but there are good reasons for stopping. You can go read them in some other thread, I am busy previewing a card here, I will get to it any second now. Guilds itself only exists because I needed a small expansion to go in-between Hinterlands and Dark Ages. Base Cards ended up showing up there instead, but I'd already made Guilds, so why not release it.

Guilds has two main mechanics, as you can see in the terse sentences that accompany the flavor paragraph. One of them is coin tokens. And here today is a card that uses them.

The coin tokens are those metal things in Seaside and Prosperity. Guilds has cards that give you some, and then they're yours, they don't belong to some Pirates or anything. The significance of a coin token is, in your buy phase, before buying cards, you can cash in any number of coin tokens for +$1 each. That's it, that's all there is to know. They're money you can spend later. The turn you play Baker, you get a coin token; you can cash it in that turn, but you can also hold onto it.

Guilds is the most skill-based expansion, and coin tokens are a big part of that. There you are with $5 some turn; you could buy a card for $5, or maybe a cheaper one. There are a certain number of options. Coin tokens increase your options; with just one coin token, you can now consider cashing it in and getting a card for $6 instead.

Baker has another special twist, which is, it gives players a coin token at the start of the game. You only get one coin token then, not one per Baker in the pile, why is anyone even asking that. You get the coin token even though no-one has a Baker yet and possibly no-one will end up buying one. It's a free sample.

That starting coin token drastically shakes up the opening two turns. You can get a $3 and a $5 no matter what your starting draw is. If you got $2/$5, you also have the option of $2/$6; if you got $3/$4, you have the option of $4/$4. You can also save that coin token for later and live with your draw.

That's the preview, I'm here all week.

Game Reports / Lots of options with HoP, HP, Knights, Baron, Graverobber and Throne Room

« on: May 24, 2013, 01:15:02 pm »

I played a game against Stef earlier with a board I found really interesting

Board: Courtyard, Baron, Throne Room, Wandering Minstrel, Graverobber, Horn of Plenty, Hunting Party, Knights, Minion, Treasury

Nearly all of the cards were crucial for how the game unfolded.

How it played out: http://dom.retrobox.eu/?/20130524/log.505c626fa2e6c78ad2ed5aa6.1369410538783.txt
Stef opened Courtyard / Minion as starting player, while I went for Silver / Baron.
We then both invested heavily in Hunting Parties, mixing in some Throne Rooms.
I picked up a Horn of Plenty and a Courtyard on Turn 7, which I used to get two Knights and another Hp on turn 8, while Stef also got a HoP and a Baron.
However, one of my knights managed to take out Stef's HoP. I picked up some more HoPs and managed to get 4 provinces on turn 14.
Stef tried to get some more knights, but after I got another province on turn 16, he resigned.

I think I got quite lucky with my Knight hits, but I'm also quite convinced that the plays from both of us were far from optimal.
I'd be interested to hear what you think about this board and how you'd play it.

GokoDom / GokoDom Round 5 Discussion of Goko

« on: May 18, 2013, 09:49:24 am »

Quote from: -Stef- on May 18, 2013, 09:20:17 am

Quote from: Qvist on May 17, 2013, 11:10:34 am
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Quote from: -Stef- on May 17, 2013, 10:48:55 am
really missing the good old days of dominion online now more then ever.
You know you can play on Goko too?

Yeah, I know. And when I read about the tournament, I really want to. Maybe I should have joined this one, maybe I will join the next.
Apart from that, no matchmaking translates to 'unplayable'. I like playing against strong opponents, and they just don't care about that.
On iso I usually had to wait around 10 minutes for a match (+/- 10 levels). On Goko, those 10 minutes would be hours and the 'waiting' would be 'clicking from one room to the next'.
Where's the fun in that?

I think that has to do less with the lack of a matchmaking system, but rather with the lack of such players on Goko. I would offer to play some games with you, but it would be quite a stretch to fit me into the "very good" category

GokoDom / Point counter

« on: April 24, 2013, 09:14:43 am »

http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=7824.0

I assume it's forbidden to use it in tournament games / only allowed with consent of the opponent?

GokoDom / Thoughts on Scoring System

« on: April 18, 2013, 07:27:36 am »

I thought about the scoring system with the potential 6th game a bit and I don't like it.
I think it advantages the second player of the first game. Assume that all games except one are won by their first player. If it was the first player who lost one of "his games", he loses the match. If the second player lost one of "his" games, the match is a tie. So basically the second player is allowed on slip, while the first isn't.
I think a better solution would be to always play an even number of games (6).

Also, I think it would be better to alternate starting player regardless of who won the previous game. That what increase the value of taking a game your opponent started, by not allowing him to start the next gameif you do.

(Obviously I think the rules for the current season shouldn't be changed, this is meant for future tournaments I'm hoping for.

Dominion General Discussion / April Fools Guilds card list

« on: April 02, 2013, 04:39:01 pm »

This is a follow-up to this thread: http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=7651.0
I designed the fake listing in there my self, and wanted to share some thoughts on them.

I had the idea for a fake listing for a while, but ended up just creating it in about 2 hours on March 31st. if I'd had more time, I'd probably have noticed that Guild Master and Turnpike +2$ are nearly strictly worse than Rabble and Duchy. those were cards I just threw in in the end because I needed an attack and a victory card. In fact, I had Guild master looking at 5 cards at first, but thought that would be way too strong. I think I overestimated the possibility of clogging the top of the deck with terminals. Also I'd probably thought of a really cool card, because my set doesn't really have a highlight.
I'm not really sold on Gypsys camp being too weak. for sure, it isn't a power 3, but I don't think it would be the worst 3 ever, since there are some really crappy 3s.

I know lots of people believe that paying effects will be only on buy. When I designed this, i deliberately did it differently. I think on-buy-effects only would be to oring and we already have them in Hinterlands. I hope the real thing will be closer to my idea.

I originally planned to post this on reddit first, because all leaks seem to appear there first, but somehow I'm to stupid to make that site show my posts.

Thanks to everyone who commented on it, especially to AdamH (I seriously thought you believed what you said for a while)

Game State: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuoXfjzSnYbsdE1qT2dQQkxkajhnbENxblBNMzcwUVE#gid=1
Rules: http://www.feuerland-spiele.de/dateien/Terra_Mystica_EN_1.0_.pdf
Faction boards (also in spreadsheet): http://www.terra-mystica-spiel.de/en/voelker.php

Players (in player order):
Dsell
Watno
Galzria
popsofctown

I will update the game state spreadsheet whenever I get to, but feel free to do the next before the update if you feel you know what changes were caused by the previous moves.
Also, to speed up the game, I encourage players to leave COs on wether they will accept power when they get the possibility to gain some (e.g. "always accept up to 2 power, will consider what to do with 3 or more") and go on with the game even if there are unresolved power gain possibilities (which can then be resolved when the player in question gets to his turn).

If anything is unclear, or you find a mistake in the spreadsheet, please ask or point it out.

Have fun!

Non-Mafia Game Threads / Terra Mystica III - Game over - theorel wins!

« on: March 19, 2013, 10:17:44 am »

Game State: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuoXfjzSnYbsdGxQTGlONzJBM3V0WWswY2FnMk9lanc#gid=1
Rules: http://www.feuerland-spiele.de/dateien/Terra_Mystica_EN_1.0_.pdf
Faction boards (also in spreadsheet): http://www.terra-mystica-spiel.de/en/voelker.php

Players (in player order):
Qvist
ipofanes
Kuildeous
Tables
theorel

I will update the game state spreadsheet whenever I get to, but feel free to do the next before the update if you feel you know what changes were caused by the previous moves.
Also, to speed up the game, I encourage players to leave COs on wether they will accept power when they get the possibility to gain some (e.g. "always accept up to 2 power, will consider what to do with 3 or more") and go on with the game even if there are unresolved power gain possibilities (which can then be resolved when the player in question gets to his turn).

If anything is unclear, or you find a mistake in the spreadsheet, please ask or point it out.

Have fun!