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Feedback / Re: F.DS could benefit from a clean up

« on: January 30, 2022, 10:33:31 pm »

Melded into the Archive category

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Feedback / Re: F.DS could benefit from a clean up

« on: January 24, 2022, 10:11:08 am »

Done though I didn't lock all the threads.

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Feedback / Re: F.DS could benefit from a clean up

« on: January 20, 2022, 04:21:41 pm »

Oh this also applies to sticky topics. I unstickied some. Please let me know yadda yadda yadda

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Feedback / Re: F.DS could benefit from a clean up

« on: January 20, 2022, 04:20:25 pm »

I think I have done this. Please let me know if I did something I shouldn't have, in which case I will undo it, or if I didn't do something I should have, in which case I will un not do it.

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News and Announcements / DominionStrategy Patreon

« on: January 02, 2022, 07:47:58 pm »

Hi all,

I have created a Patreon for Dominion Strategy here: https://www.patreon.com/dominionstrategy

To be clear - the site isn't going anywhere and will be free forever, and there's no expectation or obligation that any of you contribute. I've kept it going this long and intend to keep it going regardless of what happens to this Patreon. Nor do I need the money, and if you even remotely think that you'd be better off with the money than I, please do not contribute.

Rather, the simple truth is that the site costs, and has cost for years now, about $336/year to maintain, which is more than I pay for websites I don't use. Anyone who wants to help defray that cost is welcome to, and will get a Discord title and listed on the front page of the wiki as well as below.

The time I've spent on this site has been among the best in my life and have shaped my life more than you will ever know. Thank you all very much.


Patrons include:

Atto
Burning Skull
crlundy
Galzria
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Ingix
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Personman
Robz888
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Slyfox
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strumphf
terracubist
truffles
UltimateGeek
X-tra

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Variants and Fan Cards / MOVED: weekly fan card contest ideas (for future contests)

« on: January 13, 2021, 07:38:49 am »

This topic has been moved to Weekly Design Contest.

http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=20501.0

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Variants and Fan Cards / MOVED: Weekly Design Hall of Fame

« on: January 13, 2021, 07:38:17 am »

This topic has been moved to Weekly Design Contest.

http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=19239.0

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Variants and Fan Cards / MOVED: Weekly Design Contest Thread

« on: January 12, 2021, 09:04:14 pm »

This topic has been moved to Weekly Design Contest.

http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=18987.0

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Dominion General Discussion / MOVED: Citadels Card Game

« on: December 28, 2020, 01:28:28 pm »

This topic has been moved to Other Games.

http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=20622.0

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: spineflu, an idiot, designs fanspansions

« on: August 15, 2019, 07:02:40 pm »

If you post your expansion publicly, you should expect comments from people.  Being rude to people who post comments on your expansion - even if you don't like their comments or believe they could be more constructive - is unacceptable.

Please be more civil.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: History question: when was dominion.isotropic.org first publicly available?

« on: April 01, 2019, 10:12:01 am »

You're close.  It was first made public August 8, 2010 in this post https://boardgamegeek.com/article/5373751#5373751

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: The Dominion Cards Lists 2018 Edition: List Orders list

« on: February 22, 2019, 12:08:32 am »

Fixed.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: The Dominion Cards Lists 2018 Edition: $5 Cards

« on: February 19, 2019, 11:28:46 am »

I fixed the order.  Thanks GendoIkari for doing the work so I just had to copy/paste.

No, now it's broken. Tracer, Chris is me and Xyrix had it that way, why can't they be allowed to display it the way they want to? One person has a problem with it (Gendo) and now it has to change? What?

Sorry.  I got multiple requests to change it.  I assumed that everyone did it countdown style - because all the other lists I had seen were like that - and assumed that these guys got it wrong. 

I was mistaken.  I won't do it again.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: The Dominion Cards Lists 2018 Edition: $5 Cards

« on: February 18, 2019, 08:41:31 pm »

I fixed the order.  Thanks GendoIkari for doing the work so I just had to copy/paste.

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Dominion Articles / Re: The Top 20 Best Designed Cards

« on: January 04, 2019, 10:52:06 am »

#15 - Council Room

I may be completely wrong on this assumption, but Council Room has always struck me as having the bonus interaction come first, and the rest of the card designed around it to make it work. Given that having your opponents draw additional cards to start their hand is very strong for them, this effect really needed to be put on a card that was good enough to sorely tempt it to actually be bought and used in the first place, but on something that wasn't going to be played loads of times to make the drawback seem like less of a downside. The stronger than usual draw means you simply don't need to play that many, and I think this card ends up working out really well. I also think this card's inclusion into the base game was a very smart choice, providing an immediate counter to the criticism that Dominion isn't interactive enough. This particular interaction spreads a lot of good feeling around the table, if anything I wish there were more cards like this.

Is Council Room still the only +Cards with +Buy?  That is a cute and subtle point of power for Council Room, and instructive too.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Copyright infringement notice for Dominion: Intrigue (Second Edition)

« on: January 02, 2019, 09:06:52 am »

I also find it disturbing that the guy is on the cover twice.

That's what makes it so... Intriguing! :x

He's clearly exiting a Throne Room

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Did you know archive.org archived the front page of the old Making Fun client?

« on: December 22, 2018, 11:16:02 pm »

Transcript of future Internet archaeologists discovering this

"Like BrettSpielWelt, this site will forever be a mystery.  What was Making Fun?  And how did it manage to be preserved for so many years?"
"It must have been much better than its predecessor Isotropic, about which we know nothing."
"Say, let's bring it back to life by using technology."

Executable download required

"What's normal to it - amazes us!"
"It will be our new official Dominion Online client."

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Forum Games / Re: Awaclus and the Finnish Championship

« on: October 23, 2018, 02:57:36 pm »

I'm satisfied with the consensus that appears to have been reached, so I'm locking this thread.  Thanks, everyone.

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Forum Games / Re: Awaclus and the Finnish Championship

« on: October 18, 2018, 10:28:27 pm »

Another message I've received, which I've edited into the top post:

Hello, Kylä's adminstrator Jitachi here.

First of all, I'm terribly sorry about the ruckus in finnish championship have spread in your forum too due message of Keturin. It is true Awaclus caused a lot of trouble in the championship with his playstyle and been juggling in grey area of rules, but honestly speaking I was wishing that would be kept inside our own forum without spreading further. However, due Awaclus have provoked Keturin, Keturin sent the messages and even asked testimony about game event from me I felt like I need to tell my own side. Like Awaclus said, he didn't send his /out request directly to me, but instead to GM of the game, Cameron: the reason I'm aware of content of the dropout message is she forwarded it to me for other reason. His full reason in pm to drop out was Awaclus lacked motivation to play in game; the game have caused sleeping problems and it was taking a lot of more time than he have wanted. In addition first day was so hard he felt like he was unable to give his best performance in game. It is true in Kylä you have right to give in any time you want, no matter the reason but because that was championship game that also meant his action made him disqualified because he didn't play game until the end. Ergo, in that regard he have been already punished about his actions because he is unable to win championship or give out victory points to other players which is the main idea of whole championship. Was his trick bit dirty? Definitely. But was it forbidden? Technically no, because no one in whole adminstration didn't realize the possibility of someone sacrificing his own chances to win championship to try help his team to win one game of mafia in hopeless setup which was basically unfair for bad guys with Masoner, roleblocker and town cop. Only thing I'm mad at him in role of game mod was not being truthful about reason to drop. Strategic reason is frowned and bit cheap, but because I had no idea he was planning it, I had no chances to discuss about it with him. I also hope Keturin and Awaclus stop discussing it outside official channels: what happened in Kylä doesn't involve in my opinion Dominion Strategy forums at all and Keturin's continued chase of Awaclus back in his own home forum is plainly unjustified.

Kind regards,
Johanna T./Jitachi
Mafia game forum Kylä

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Forum Games / Awaclus and the Finnish Championship

« on: October 18, 2018, 10:18:45 am »

I received the following email from a participant in the Finnish mafia championship.  I am withholding judgment until I get sense from you all as to how you feel about the issue and what, if anything, should be done.

Hello,

Sorry for the possible inconvenience and thanks in advance. I don't represent the Finnish mafia forum Kylä but I would like to bring into your attention that the f.ds representative Awaclus cheated and intentionally outed from the Finnish Championship game on D2 to manipulate the game in scum teams favor. I participated in the game and I played town. He was assigned to team scum and he had chosen a strategy where he claimed to be town and referenced to game logs in this forum where had actually played town. This ruse is totally viable scum strategy in my opinion, but it didn't work and generally other players were suspicious about his alignment during his stay in the game. The game had 13 players and 3 of them were scum. Out of three scum players we were able to lynch one on d1. D2 masons claimed themselves which gave us two confirmed players on town side.

At this point Awaclus' disrespectful attitude and arrogant communication had cause a lot of uncivil behavior towards him, myself included. This is of course totally viable strategy as scum but not really respectful and doesn't represent good sportsmanship. I snapped at him and several other players also descended to his level and some players received warnings due their behavior. At the same time Awaclus chose to out from the game and admins started looking for a replacement. At this point many players were worried if Awaclus had dropped out from the game due other players being rude to him. I take responsibility for my own behavior because Awaclus was able to get under my skin. I genuinely felt bad about me losing my composure and I apologized during the game and personally to Awa after the game.

At the end of D2 we were able to lynch second scum from the game, only leaving the scum in Awaclus' slot. At the start of D3, the roleblocker claimed themself and told who they had targeted during N2. Because the night killed player wasn't one of the two confirmed masons, there was only one scum left in the game and we knew roleblocker is alive, it was a hard confirm for roleblocker and the player they had targeted. This gave us four (masons, roleblocker, roleblocker's target 1) confirmed players out of 9 alive players and only one scum to be searched for. At this point roleblocker said they will announce which player they will target N3 so we will have one more confirmed player at D4 if someone is killed next night. If roleblocker would've been night killed on N4 we'd still have 4 confirmed players out of 7. At this point I'm sure you realise that it was mathematically impossible for scum to win the game so Awaclus' replacement player conceded.

After the victory celebrations, scumchat was posted to the topic and from there we discovered that Awaclus made a 100% conscious decision to out from the game so he could manipulate in scum's favor. His team mates were also aware of his reasons to out from the game. In the post-game discussion he has again confirmed this choice and game mods have confirmed to Awaclus this behavior is not acceptable and he would've been penalized with a temporary participation ban if this came to game mods attention during the game. If scum team would've won because of Awaclus manipulated the game by outing, I'm sure no player would've acknowledged the win.

Now Awaclus has defended his decision to out from the game and said it's totally acceptable to intentionally collect a participation ban if it would help his team win the game. As he was just a guest player in Kylä, this doesn't bother him at all since he probably wouldn't have participated in a another game in the future. I want to press that this was done as an official ambassador of f.ds in a Championship Game.

Your mafia rules and civility pledge clearly state in two different sections that players should not officially out from the game for manipulation reasons.

"Please do not use this (outing) as a manipulation technique."

"-- Every game requires participation. Do not sign up for games that you are unwilling to play. /Outing has become increasingly problematic lately. It's an action that should be highly, highly frowned upon--an exception, rather than something that happens at least twice in every game. Finding replacements is tough on the mods, the other players, and the replacements themselves."

At the Kylä Forum, Awaclus is saying that these rules only prohibit officially outing from the game. I would like to have your opinion on this.

And this subsequent email:

Hello, Kylä's adminstrator Jitachi here.

First of all, I'm terribly sorry about the ruckus in finnish championship have spread in your forum too due message of Keturin. It is true Awaclus caused a lot of trouble in the championship with his playstyle and been juggling in grey area of rules, but honestly speaking I was wishing that would be kept inside our own forum without spreading further. However, due Awaclus have provoked Keturin, Keturin sent the messages and even asked testimony about game event from me I felt like I need to tell my own side. Like Awaclus said, he didn't send his /out request directly to me, but instead to GM of the game, Cameron: the reason I'm aware of content of the dropout message is she forwarded it to me for other reason. His full reason in pm to drop out was Awaclus lacked motivation to play in game; the game have caused sleeping problems and it was taking a lot of more time than he have wanted. In addition first day was so hard he felt like he was unable to give his best performance in game. It is true in Kylä you have right to give in any time you want, no matter the reason but because that was championship game that also meant his action made him disqualified because he didn't play game until the end. Ergo, in that regard he have been already punished about his actions because he is unable to win championship or give out victory points to other players which is the main idea of whole championship. Was his trick bit dirty? Definitely. But was it forbidden? Technically no, because no one in whole adminstration didn't realize the possibility of someone sacrificing his own chances to win championship to try help his team to win one game of mafia in hopeless setup which was basically unfair for bad guys with Masoner, roleblocker and town cop. Only thing I'm mad at him in role of game mod was not being truthful about reason to drop. Strategic reason is frowned and bit cheap, but because I had no idea he was planning it, I had no chances to discuss about it with him. I also hope Keturin and Awaclus stop discussing it outside official channels: what happened in Kylä doesn't involve in my opinion Dominion Strategy forums at all and Keturin's continued chase of Awaclus back in his own home forum is plainly unjustified.

Kind regards,
Johanna T./Jitachi
Mafia game forum Kylä

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Forum Games / Re: Should this subforum be visible to guests?

« on: August 25, 2018, 11:05:09 am »

I too can not change the number of the day or any of my posts really; this is quite inconvenient

I fixed this.  Let me know if there's other bugs.

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Forum Games / Re: Should this subforum be visible to guests?

« on: August 23, 2018, 11:59:02 am »

Did that fix it?

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Forum Games / MOVED: Post Your Picture!!

« on: August 21, 2018, 01:20:03 pm »

This topic has been moved to Post Your Picture!.

http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=9959.0

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Forum Games / Re: Should this subforum be visible to guests?

« on: August 21, 2018, 01:18:44 pm »

I will make this forum and the game threads public, and I will create a separate forum for Post Your Picture and make it accessible to members only.  Thanks for your feedback.

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Forum Games / Re: Should this subforum be visible to guests?

« on: August 20, 2018, 07:05:24 pm »

I am all for democracy.  But before I change the settings, the reason the forum was originally private is, I think, to allow people to be more frank and open in playing games without fear of it being public.

So, three questions:

1 - are there things that people posted with an expectation of privacy that I'd be violating now if I made it all public?

2 - what benefit are we aiming for, given that you still will need to register an account to post and play?

3 - would your purposes be served if I created a wrapper public forum that people could chat in, but kept this as the subforum of that?  Or would that be too complicated?

I don't actually care one way or the other, just wanted to make sure we thought through everything.