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Dominion Articles / Re: Hermit

« on: December 30, 2019, 12:24:45 pm »

Always remember: Hermit is primarily a deck accelerator, and the trash/gain effect is secondary.

I'm not sure this is such good advice. I think it's worth pointing out that the gain is the effect that's mandatory. I often forget this and then end up having to gain a Silver I don't want. You also have to watch out for the cards that can make the gain really valuable, like Fishing Village and Fool's Gold.

Okay, so I write a sentence that Hermit is good at gaining great $3s. What does that accomplish? It's what the card does on first glance.

And that advice, it's the primary reason I wrote the article in the first place! It's the single most important thing about Hermit and previous articles did not emphasize this. Take that away, and Hermit isn't very good at all. You'd get it and stuff, but it would be about Workshopish in power.

also especially good with cost reducers whats better that gaining a free silver?  Gaining provinces after a sick 2x (or single w/engine parts)madman turn with bridges/bridgetrolls

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Dominion Articles / Re: Hermit

« on: December 30, 2019, 11:23:29 am »

I see a lot of players using a madman on turn 5 or 6 without preparing the deck to maximise the big hand with 2 actions. Adding a buy or a card gainer can get extra value from a hand full of copper.

I also see plenty of games where hermits are used as a trasher/gainer from start to finish. Hermits have two strings to their bow and both are important.

even then it's still good.  Getting a gold and, a hermit (likely from a hermit-so u can madman later when cards are even better) and possibly another card assuming there are buys anywhere it's so strong. One of my favorite card.  The trashing of curses and ruins/necropoli can't be overstated.  It's such a strong card. It's a perfect enabler to defiled shrine, marauder and counter to torturer/mb/seahags/witches which are some of the worst attacks to deal with.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Best Uninteresting Moments in Dominion

« on: December 29, 2019, 09:47:47 pm »

from the http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=15455.0

Semi-Interesting Dominion Moments of 2016 Thread

This thread is gonna die.

lol this one kinda went i a coma.  This is the kind of dead thread I loving bumping anyway.

Anyways I was in a kind of shitty deck with stonemason and a lot of other crap (marauder and something else)

Anyway I were tied and I had all the castles except small and crumbling. I held 17 coins and was debating The 9 castle and a gold, or 2 provies, Instead i proceeded to three pile out the last 8 stonemasons, forgetting I didn't add right and couldn't get the one estate I needed.  So I piled out a decent game into a tie, from a position of strength, for what my opponent must've thought for seemingly no reason.I was so annoyed I didn't even ask to undo and rebuy, just ended it and left the room in shame.  Plus it was a really long game so the tie after all it was even more confusing and unsatisfying.  I blame the weed.  lol

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Semi-Interesting Dominion Moments of 2016 Thread

« on: December 29, 2019, 09:39:15 pm »

After opening Potion-Silver in the hopes of getting one of the 3P cards, I did not hit 3P until the 5th shuffle. I should just have resigned at that point.

Last weekend in a Familiar/Apprentice IRL game against my 12 yo brother:
I split 5/2, and opened Apprentice/nothing (I really like to live dangerously).
First shuffle, Apprentice-c-c-c-c hand, buy Potion and be sad.
Second shuffle, Apprentice-c-c-c-c, trash a Copper and be sad.
Later in the second shuffle, e-e-c-c-p, be very sad, start to take in Curses.

We played it out, it ended on Curse-Market-Apprentice piles, the score was 30 to -5, and I never managed to trash two of my Estates.

Not sure why I'm posting this here, but it was intriguing to watch, I guess.

Plot twist, his brother was stacking the deck and swapping cards with sleight of hands.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Semi-Interesting Dominion Moments Thread

« on: December 29, 2019, 09:37:10 pm »

In an IRL game, I bid 40 for Mountain Pass. I then proceeded to Smuggle 2 Provinces (I played two Bridges first) and use gainers to cause a 3-pile and win.

this actually belongs in one of the two threads, or both depending of if your identify as homo-combo-sexual or trend more toward Combo Fluid.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Semi-Interesting Dominion Moments of 2016 Thread

« on: December 29, 2019, 09:35:09 pm »

This thread is gonna die.

upvoted for a solid prediction.

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Really bad card ideas

« on: December 29, 2019, 09:22:06 pm »

Kind of conventional but whatever.

King's Signature
Action-Treasure-Victory
Cost: $8

If it's your Action phase, play an Action card from your hand twice.
If it's your Buy phase, play a Treasure card from your hand twice.
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2 VP

How about King Midas's Court 8 (8 debt)

If it's your Action phase, play an Action card from your hand three times or Turn all your coins in hand into gold during action phase.
If it's your Buy phase Can transform only 3 coins to golds before buying cards.


Just imagine this in a Gladiator/Fortune game.  Or it could just flip the Mountebank into a gold machine, turning lead into gold. Especially ridiculous b/c you could gain it in lieu of first province.   Maybe even Have this underneath the KC pile, so that the first 5 are Kc's and last 5 are King Midas Courts.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Annoying and potentially harmful card anti-synergies

« on: December 28, 2019, 10:47:16 pm »

actually just read the text closer, and i guess it makes sense.  I guess I never read it that close. It only specifies the costs of the 3 coins you play not storyteller. Still good to know.

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Rules Questions / Re: Might be a bug, but shouldn't a capitalism'd Storyteller count for 5$

« on: December 28, 2019, 10:42:11 pm »

actually just read the text closer, and i guess it makes sense.  I guess I never read it that close. It only specifies the costs of the 3 coins you play not storyteller.  Tried to delete this thread but it wouldn't let me, I guess others should know this too so whatever.

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Rules Questions / Might be a bug, but shouldn't a capitalism'd Storyteller count for 5$

« on: December 28, 2019, 10:37:34 pm »

Just played a game and this occurred and storyteller counted for 1 coin.  If you get like 5 coins from playing a IGG why wouldn't story teller count as 5 if it has a 5 coin amount on it?

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Annoying and potentially harmful card anti-synergies

« on: December 28, 2019, 10:35:08 pm »

Not exactly an anti-synergy, but since it's new and some might think it lays opposite, if you have capitalism in play and play a Storyteller it only counts as one coin, not the 5 my opponent hoped would happen when luckily he played it before i did (and was going to try it until then).  Which kinda doesn't make sense, if you get like 5 coins from playing a IGG why wouldn't story teller count as 5 if it has a 5 coin amount on it?

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Neat and potentially useful card interactions

« on: December 28, 2019, 10:28:05 pm »

This may be too set specific, but it was kinda neat.  Had mill, ironmonger and capitalism.  Hitting a golden mill was a pretty nice play. discard the mill get a coin an action and a new card card, or keep the mill if needed.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Action-Treasure-Victory?

« on: December 28, 2019, 10:26:04 pm »

Buy Capitalism in a game with Mill - there you go

actually did this earlier.  Mainly because ironmonger was in play.  Hitting a golden mill was a pretty nice play.

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Dominion Online at Shuffle iT / Matching problems?

« on: December 26, 2019, 04:55:41 pm »

It seems in the last 4-5 days that it is taking forever to find a match even with super broad parameters (like -10 to +10 my rating)  It also seems to roughly coincide with the issues with the certificates and their fix.  Is anyone else experiencing this?  I guess it could be that there are a lot less pagans here than Jerry Fallwell would think and that everyone is taking The world's most over-rated carpenter's birthday (like for real, even X-tians don't know one freaking thing he made) off from all these demonic sinful games because it is even more heathenistic than D & D! But it just feels like something is off as I see a lot of names listed in the also searching box that I often play and I am sure they are inside of my searching parameters. I guess it's possible they all blocked me, but then my bet is I wouldn't even see their names listed? 

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Dominion Online at Shuffle iT / Re: Is the Game down right now? eta : FYI just got in.

« on: December 23, 2019, 07:40:58 pm »

Now because the certificates are outdated Google thinks this and the game are malware/phishing threats.  Maybe this is just a really long play for Donald X... no one saw it coming. 

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Dominion Online at Shuffle iT / Re: Is the Game down right now?

« on: December 19, 2019, 01:00:06 am »

FYI just got in.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Can't Log In on dominion.games:Help

« on: December 19, 2019, 12:14:39 am »

FYI just got in.

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Dominion Online at Shuffle iT / Re: Is the Game down right now?

« on: December 18, 2019, 11:57:39 pm »

Found this on the ShIt forums

http://forum.shuffleit.nl/index.php?topic=3853.0

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Can't Log In on dominion.games:Help (eta : FYI just got in.)

« on: December 18, 2019, 11:39:28 pm »

nope

http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=20007.0

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Dominion Online at Shuffle iT / Re: Is the Game down right now?

« on: December 18, 2019, 11:34:27 pm »

going on 2 hrs now. 3 browsers. 3 comps n a phone -wifi and data.

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Dominion Online at Shuffle iT / Is the Game down right now? eta : FYI just got in.

« on: December 18, 2019, 10:34:19 pm »

for the last half hour when i go to the site I get this

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Dominion Online at Shuffle iT / Re: Lord Rattington has a hard time with a decision

« on: December 18, 2019, 10:28:18 pm »

still smarter than he played this deck

http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=18957.new#new

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Are the bots programmed to understand landmarks? Because I don't so...

« on: December 18, 2019, 10:26:31 pm »

In honor of the most recent evidence of lord rattington's performance. I thought I'd bump this thread. My brother is an artificial intelligence professor who jusdt joined Open AI . Maybe he can get one of elon musks interns to tune it up! He's a dominion player too...

But man was this one terrible

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Dominion Online at Shuffle iT / Re: Why is the server so fuct right now?

« on: December 18, 2019, 10:19:12 pm »

I had one day in the last week where Oregon was laggy for me. I told Stef and he said later that he rebooted it, but had no problems himself. So maybe it was just my connection to America that was for whatever reason slow (from Germany, playing on Frankfurt was fine).

Usually, when a server is slow, the messages from players pile up on discord, so then it becomes clear that the server is the problem and not some connection. So in this case, my guess would be some intermediate connection slowness that Honkeyfresh may have no control over. Especially if the opponent's timed out.

Thanks!  This clears up a lot.  FYI I have had a few games in the last week where its been a little laggy again.  I didn't realize it may be that a particular region is an issue.  In the future if i see anything I'll try and mention what region it is. 

Thanks again for replying.  That's also pretty intere4sting and just cool to know in general. 

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Dominion Online at Shuffle iT / Re: Why is the server so fuct right now?

« on: December 03, 2019, 05:33:37 pm »

Someone fixed something.  B/c the last week or so it has been almost flawless.  like 99% less lags than before and I haven't seen a loading/crashed/stalled connection in a week or 2.

Thanks for whatever ya'll did.