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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Seaside 2E Preview 2
« on: May 19, 2022, 12:44:37 am »
Heh.. we can also have Young Sea Witch, and Old Sea Witch
I can't argue the appeal of not having to have dedicated tokens for just this one kingdom card. That said, an anecdote I'd like to share was a couple were bummed that Seaside no longer came with base/foundation cards (reminder that Intrigue 1E cards did!). The value wasn't there for them. I mentioned that it does come with 2 sets of (shiny) metal tokens. I guess they like metal [shrug]., They changed their tune and ended up getting Seaside (1E)!
Embargo requires dedicated tokens, just for this card that often no-one buys. That sure wanted to be fixed. And it already had errata due to the changes to Band of Misfits & co.
Blockade is the new Embargo. No tokens required. And it blocks other players and not you, and they can't even get around it with Workshops. It really embargoes things, you get the embargoing experience you always wanted.
I'll probably point us to previous discussions speculating about new Dom expansions where they say the next one will include "card shaped" components. Here, we know that the game will include an AI that should be akin to what we've seen in Race/Roll For The GalaxySo the AI cheats? It plays a few turns ahead and makes decisions based on that?
Not really? I mean, it doesn't know exactly what shuffle it's going to get. It just simulates a bunch of potential shuffles based on what happens if it makes certain moves and then picks ones that made it win more in those simulations.
OK, that's fine for shuffles. But say it plays Wishing Well, or decides whether it's going to play Wishing Well. What then?
Looks like it might be time to revisit my old thread!Race/Roll For The Galaxy have easier difficulty levels which make more suboptimal moves. That proved suitable for less skilled players.And even if they're right and it's an amazing Dominion AI that can beat even seasoned players in most games, that sounds pretty bad for casual players! Who wants to play against a computer that beats you 90% of the time? Some people will, sure, but I bet that'll get old fast for a lot of players.
I think most neural networks have some depth setting you can turn down to make it perform worse, although it may not get worse in the same way a human would.
I still miss coppersmith too. Its unexpected passing is the biggest tragedy in dominion history.Bring it back and give it a +1 Buy to it
old post I know, but I was kind of wondering about this myself, without trying to create a new post - tried to do a search, but couldn't find anythingDominion is a great game but this topic of storage is a genuine concern. I've seen one person do this and IIRC, he had 4 to 7 sets worth of large boxes (not to be confused with the Big Box). 10 cards per pocket, with some of them perhaps able to go beyond that (perhaps up to 15 or 20)? Worked out pretty well.
I'm pretty new and considered trying to see if an old baseball card binder would work? (at least for everything except the treasurers and other large quantity cards)
Looking back to this day, I can say, it's good thing I don't care what you thinkI did a mini-review of the first 5 here....You lost all credibility to me when you rated Governor and Stash as 5/5, but Black Market only 3/5.
https://boardgamegeek.com/article/10398721#10398721
FWIW, try to value them by how much you'll actually use them. Sure, the regular sets come with many more cards, but it wouldn't be saying much if you didn't like say, half of them.
As far as the rest of them go, Summons isn't too shabby, nor Dismantle.
Whoever guesses the effect before Essen wins a prize.I'll take Princess!
A thought I had today (not very original I am sure)Code: [Select]Fair - Market Square :: $4 / $3 | Seaway $4
Barracks - Village :: $6 / $3 | Lost Arts $6
[s]Canal - Highway :: $7 / $5[/s]
NA - Lab :: NA / $5 | Pathfinder $8
IRL takes longer, but I like the tactile sensation of playing with real cards.When I talk about Dominion, I enjoy talking about it with people whose faces I can see, and hands I can shake. However, that's rather difficult this day in age, so for everything else, there are places like DominionStrategy.com
To get back to the original question, I think an aspect of the change in Dominion's popularity has to be that it basically birthed a huge genre which is the deck-building game. Regardless of whether you consider other deck-builders to be Dominion's equal, the fact is that while people who like deck-building games used to have one place to go and it was Dominion, now they have 1,000 places to go and only some of them are Dominion.I've been going to board game conventions for the better part of the past decade. I remember my first game Dominion in 2008...
But that probably goes both ways -- all those other deck-building games are entry points that will lead some percentage of people who discover them back to Dominion.
If it's the last Province, bid <40>
If it's the last Province, nobody gets to bid.
No.It's such awesome game series that fans are willing to rebuy them again?
I already own all the dominion cards, why would I buy them again?
Sadly Dominion's rules are superseded by both local laws and laws of nature. Otherwise I would long ago have made "For the rest of this turn, there is no entropy" and then wandered off into the world of dreams.You should pitch to Blizzard an idea for a "World Of Dominion" game. Couldn't hurt :p No more silly IRL rules if that were to be greenlit!
That's quite a bit of a stretch don't you think?I feel like using the randomizer deck and then just grabbing actual copies of whatever cards get bought is a pretty good compromise.This really is a good enough solution, folks, and well within the spirit of IRL board gaming.
Otherwise if you're going to have a BM-specific app, why not just go all out and have a Dominion Online LAN party with 5 laptops 'round the table?
LosingAnd even then, losing is still relative. Losing against a excellent players can mean you'll kick ass against a group of winners. Each who were the winners of their groups
Can you suggest any? People keep saying this, but I have yet to find one that does more than pick out the BM cards.For people who think Black Market is one of the best: how do you do the setup IRL? It sounds unusable.
Use an app with virtual Black Market deck support. It can simulate a Black Market deck for you. If someone buys the actual card you then dig it out, that way you only have to fish for the cards you need.
Heh... and to think, there are people who still play 5p and 6p gamesSome people are still playing with more than 2 players.
Heathens.
What we need is for full colour e-ink displays to become cheap enough that we can afford 300-400 card-shaped ones for a game of Dominion.Mission Impossible, eat your heart out
Want a supply pile? Just stack at least as many cards as needed and let it morph the bottom n into the required cards, leaving the surplus with red faces so they're easy to drop back in the general stack.
Want your deck shuffled? Just pile up the cards and hit a button. The faces permute themselves without having to move the actual cards.
Give it another decade or two. (-8