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Dominion General Discussion / Re: When luck is not on your side
« on: October 01, 2014, 03:54:41 pm »
I got a pretty spectacular draw fail just now...

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Elanchana Destler   draws Laboratory, Laboratory, Throne Room, Gold
Elanchana Destler   shuffles deck
Elanchana Destler   draws Gold
Oh good, two labs! This will be a good turn to double province!
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Elanchana Destler   plays Laboratory
Elanchana Destler   draws Moneylender, Estate
Elanchana Destler   plays Throne Room
Elanchana Destler   plays Laboratory
Elanchana Destler   draws Province, Estate
Elanchana Destler   plays Laboratory
Elanchana Destler   draws Duchy, Duchy
...or not.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: When luck is not on your side
« on: October 01, 2014, 03:08:35 pm »
Ha.  Though, I really have to wonder what your deck composition was at that point...
I kind of cheated on the first post - those weren't consecutive draws and one of them was from a different game. But they all happened. In decks that were SUPPOSED to be streamlined by that point.

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Dominion General Discussion / When luck is not on your side
« on: October 01, 2014, 03:03:04 pm »
"Okay my engine is almost done, time to..."
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Elanchana Destler   draws Estate, Moneylender, Silver, Throne Room, Estate
"wait goko no"
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Elanchana Destler   draws Estate, Copper, Copper, Copper, Throne Room
"goko what are you"
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Elanchana Destler   draws Copper, Throne Room, Estate, Province, Estate
"GOKO"
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Elanchana Destler   draws Estate, Silver, Moneylender, Province, Estate
"STAHP"

So yeah, post all your terrible draws/shuffle luck here.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Best Dominion Moments 2014
« on: September 30, 2014, 01:53:12 pm »
I had an incredibly lucky victory today after continuously being screwed over by poor draws yesterday (Throne Room consistently popping up without other actions, Smithy drawing dead actions, Chapel always showing up at the wrong time, etc.). Screw you, PPR, I'm taking both of 'em!

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Homage to the Best Card
« on: September 22, 2014, 11:01:23 pm »
^ Yes I do

Has anyone done this yet?


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Game Reports / My first non-base win ever
« on: September 22, 2014, 10:34:41 pm »
I hit quit before I remembered to copy the log, but basically here's what happened: Baker board with no attacks, opponent and I run out Bakers really fast, followed by all Squires but one, I rack up coin tokens and start buying Festivals with Altar, which he doesn't have, he grabs a Duchy with the last of his coin tokens, I play my bazillion coin tokens and am about to snag a Province plus the last Squire and Festival, and he resigns before I even get there.

WHEW.

(I hope this is awesome enough to go on this board.)

Edit: Found the log!

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Dominion General Discussion / Don't drink and chapel
« on: September 21, 2014, 03:34:38 pm »
Oh look, another "what do you guys do" thread by Ela.

When I heard that chapel was the best/most powerful card in the game, I have to admit I was quite a bit taken aback. I mean, sure, it's awesome for getting rid of curses and that, but I had had, and still have had, much better luck when I haven't bought chapel. I have definitely lost games to trashing more opening estates than my opponent, or chapeling too much copper to buy anything useful, or waiting too long to trash copper because of that and drawing chapel at the most inconvenient times. Can I, and other newbies, get some advice about how to use chapel responsibly?

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Dominion General Discussion / Deciding when to green
« on: September 21, 2014, 03:23:09 pm »
Disclaimer: I don't know any sets very well except base, so my thoughts will be largely based (heh) around that.

During my very first Dominion game IRL, someone said that "Once that first province goes, it's only a matter of time before the game is over." Obviously it's more complicated than that though. I've played games where one person picks up a province on their first or second $8 turn but the other waits until they can double-province and snags the win. On the other hand, I've also played games where one person picks up an early province and then waits for the megaturn stage, beating their opponent from PPR and such. And of course that's not counting duchy tennis, gardening, three pile endings, yada yada yada. I haven't really grasped the "secret formula" for when to green, so I want to hear more experienced players' thoughts. What kind of criteria do you take into account when you decide when to buy victory points?

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Best Dominion Moments 2014
« on: September 21, 2014, 02:10:33 pm »
Last night I literally played a game against nobody. This was the result:

(The only reason why I didn't get every single green card is because I ran down the lab pile before I decided to not only get provinces.)

It would be funny if your rating went up from that game.
Actually, it did. Only like 10 points, but it did. I couldn't believe it either.

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Goko Dominion Online / Re: Want to get experience with non-base thru unrated
« on: September 20, 2014, 05:47:26 pm »
I'm cool with that. Can we do it in like 10 minutes though? I'm in the middle of another game.

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Goko Dominion Online / Want to get experience with non-base thru unrated
« on: September 20, 2014, 05:29:27 pm »
The problem is I only own the base set and almost no one makes unrated games anymore.

Can some people who own non-base sets post here when they want to help base players practice other sets?

(I have a feeling this can be used for other newbies, not just me.)

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Best Dominion Moments 2014
« on: September 20, 2014, 05:11:24 pm »
You can play single-player games on purpose in the Secret Chamber lobby.
Well... that makes me feel less special now. Although it wasn't on Secret Chamber. *goes to have some more single player fun*

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Homage to the Best Card
« on: September 20, 2014, 04:28:22 pm »
Oh and


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Dominion General Discussion / Coming up with names for stuff
« on: September 20, 2014, 04:24:40 pm »
While I might not actually be good at the game, I've been naming random things that I do or see others doing...

Village/Smith engine = Vill Smith
Piledriving Labs = Lab Grab
Opening Witch/Chapel = Chapwich

Post more?

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Rules Questions / Re: Doubling TR and KC... what?
« on: September 20, 2014, 04:06:04 pm »
THANK YOU. Stuff makes so much more sense now.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Best Dominion Moments 2014
« on: September 20, 2014, 03:32:01 pm »
Last night I literally played a game against nobody. This was the result:

(The only reason why I didn't get every single green card is because I ran down the lab pile before I decided to not only get provinces.)

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Rules Questions / Doubling TR and KC... what?
« on: September 20, 2014, 03:25:22 pm »
I need something clarified. At first I thought that playing TR-TR or KC-KC let you play an action card four or six times, respectively, but then Goko wouldn't let me do that. So I thought the first of those cards canceled out the second one. But then I read about KC-KC-Goons-Masquerade and KC-KC-Bridge-Bridge-Bridge and since those are all terminals I didn't see how that could possibly work. Does this mean that if you play TR-TR or KC-KC it lets you play two/three action cards twice/three times?

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Homage to the Best Card
« on: September 20, 2014, 03:11:20 pm »

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Introductions / Uh...hi?
« on: September 20, 2014, 03:00:53 pm »
Hey, I'm Ela. I'm generally known for my bad strategies, constant frustration, and clever puns on the word base. Anybody want to help me not be, in the words of Hank Green, so bad at game?

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