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Forum Games / Re: Apparently this is where people talk when it's night
« on: August 05, 2021, 08:00:32 pm »Rob, I’m glad you’re feeling better!
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Forum Games / Re: Apparently this is where people talk when it's night
« on: August 04, 2021, 04:33:58 pm »What's new?
Not a lot with me. I got a breakthrough covid case, but luckily I felt better after like just one day.
Here I am talking about it on CNN: https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2021/08/01/robby-soave-on-his-own-breakthrough-covid-case.cnn
As a consequence, I've been quarantining by myself and spending a LOT more time online. I browsed a ton of old forum posts. Hi everybody!
How've you been?
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Dominion Articles / Re: Dominion is getting worse with each expansion
« on: August 03, 2021, 02:19:20 pm »
When I saw this topic, I actually thought you were going to argue something close to the reverse—each expansion increases the complexity dramatically and thus increases the odds that you are going to have build some kind of engine deck, whereas you can still win with some cute, simpler money strategy a decent percentage of the time if you stick to base game plus an expansion or two. I don't personally agree that that version of Dominion is better, but I could at least see that argument: It's a matter of personal preference, and some people might prefer it. I occasionally miss the days when winning games like that was somewhat more common. (Obviously, it still happens, but at high-skill levels of play, it's rarer, I think.)
I have a very hard time believing that adding expansions raises the odds that a random kingdom is going to be lacking some key component. Perhaps this is mathematically true in the event that there were infinite cards, but as you note, there are not. Note that cards don't just do one thing, and cards do different things depending on what other cards are there. I.e., Sheepdog is not really a draw card on its own, but if you have non-terminal mid-turn gaining, then suddenly it is. The odds of having mid-turn non-terminal gaining have certainly increased as we've added expansions. If Sheepdog was dropped into Base, you would need it to be present with Workshop or Artisan and a village to make it draw productively for you.
I would argue that if you're restricting yourself to fewer expansions, you increase the need for every kingdom to have +buy and +cards and +actions in order to be interesting (again, if by interesting you mean vaguely engine-y; interesting is a really subjective thing). With many more expansions, it doesn't matter so much if one of those components is strictly absent, because the kingdom will have some other exciting thing that you can do, like gain a bunch of VP chips, or acquire cards and points from landscapes, or whatever.
I have a very hard time believing that adding expansions raises the odds that a random kingdom is going to be lacking some key component. Perhaps this is mathematically true in the event that there were infinite cards, but as you note, there are not. Note that cards don't just do one thing, and cards do different things depending on what other cards are there. I.e., Sheepdog is not really a draw card on its own, but if you have non-terminal mid-turn gaining, then suddenly it is. The odds of having mid-turn non-terminal gaining have certainly increased as we've added expansions. If Sheepdog was dropped into Base, you would need it to be present with Workshop or Artisan and a village to make it draw productively for you.
I would argue that if you're restricting yourself to fewer expansions, you increase the need for every kingdom to have +buy and +cards and +actions in order to be interesting (again, if by interesting you mean vaguely engine-y; interesting is a really subjective thing). With many more expansions, it doesn't matter so much if one of those components is strictly absent, because the kingdom will have some other exciting thing that you can do, like gain a bunch of VP chips, or acquire cards and points from landscapes, or whatever.
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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM59: Battlestar Galactica Legacy - Season 1 (Day 4)
« on: April 20, 2021, 10:11:02 pm »
Vote: Jack
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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM59: Battlestar Galactica Legacy - Season 1 (Day 4)
« on: April 20, 2021, 04:32:39 pm »
I don't actually think it helps anything for me to elaborate further.
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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM59: Battlestar Galactica Legacy - Season 1 (Day 4)
« on: April 20, 2021, 04:22:28 pm »
Vote: EFHW
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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM59: Battlestar Galactica Legacy - Season 1 (Day 4)
« on: April 19, 2021, 02:54:04 pm »
Really sorry for my pathetic performance here, people, but I am not mafia.
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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM59: Battlestar Galactica Legacy - Season 1 (Day 4)
« on: April 18, 2021, 04:05:41 pm »
I'm Cally. One of my least favorite characters!
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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM59: Battlestar Galactica Legacy - Season 1 (Day 4)
« on: April 17, 2021, 05:10:54 pm »
Okay. I have two night actions: I can find out whether someone is civilian or military, and I can also protect someone from a killing action.
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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM59: Battlestar Galactica Legacy - Season 1 (Day 4)
« on: April 17, 2021, 12:04:34 pm »
I'm also fine with massclaim.
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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM59: Battlestar Galactica Legacy - Season 1 (Day 4)
« on: April 15, 2021, 12:15:30 pm »
Vote: ADK
I feel like in every other game I've played, there has been a strong tendency to kill self-confessed third-party folks.
I feel like in every other game I've played, there has been a strong tendency to kill self-confessed third-party folks.
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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM59: Battlestar Galactica Legacy - Season 1 (Day 4)
« on: April 14, 2021, 11:31:35 am »
I think having had almost no one die this entire game is making it pretty tough.
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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM59: Battlestar Galactica Legacy - Season 1 (Day 3)
« on: April 11, 2021, 12:33:16 pm »
I don’t want their to be no exile situation again, and I’m fine with you dying. Sorry!
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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM59: Battlestar Galactica Legacy - Season 1 (Day 3)
« on: April 11, 2021, 12:26:42 pm »
Vote: MiX
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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM59: Battlestar Galactica Legacy - Season 1 (Day 3)
« on: April 11, 2021, 12:25:43 pm »
Acknowledged. Again, I do mean to catch up soon.
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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM59: Battlestar Galactica Legacy - Season 1 (Day 3)
« on: April 09, 2021, 12:21:00 pm »
I will attempt to catch up later today.
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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM59: Battlestar Galactica Legacy - Season 1 (Day 3)
« on: April 06, 2021, 04:12:28 pm »
Waaaaaaay behind, will catch up soon PROMISE
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Mafia Game Threads / Re: M134: Conference Call Mafia V 2.0 - Game Over - Skum Wins!
« on: April 02, 2021, 06:52:20 pm »
I think I managed to suspect everyone but the actual scum team.
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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM59: Battlestar Galactica Legacy - Season 1 (Day 2)
« on: April 02, 2021, 12:28:58 pm »
I'm way, way behind and may not catch up before deadline... where should my vote be?
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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM59: Battlestar Galactica Legacy - Season 1 (Day 2)
« on: March 30, 2021, 03:51:21 pm »
Seems wrong to vote for scola when he's generating so much content.
Vote: ADK
Vote: ADK
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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM59: Battlestar Galactica Legacy - Season 1 (Day 2)
« on: March 29, 2021, 07:18:57 pm »
We could exile scola just for being terrifying as scum that one time!
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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM59: Battlestar Galactica Legacy - Season 1 (Day 2)
« on: March 29, 2021, 04:59:19 pm »
Lets exile someone.
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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM59: Battlestar Galactica Legacy - Season 1 (Day 2)
« on: March 29, 2021, 12:22:48 pm »
I think I am more likely to believe ash is town at this point.
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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM59: Battlestar Galactica Legacy - Season 1 (Day 2)
« on: March 28, 2021, 10:46:40 pm »
I think a lot of people are getting unnecessarily confused. And I don't actually think it's that confusing!
Background: In Battlestar Galactica, there are two species: humans and Cylons. Humans are just humans. Cylons come in two kinds: Hulking killer machines called Centurions (think Terminator) and the kind that looks like people. There are 12 types of the people kind: All of these Cylons look like one of the 12. Five of the 12 are the Final Five, they are like the creators of all Cylons and there's only one copy of each. The other 7 form the basis of Cylon society, all the Cylons look like one of the 7. Sometimes our heroes figure out someone is a Cylon when they run across the person more than once: If there's another copy of a person, they are one of the 7!
Okay, none of that is particularly important. The important thing is that in the show, many of the Cylons don't know they are Cylons. Some copies are deliberately mind-wiped and sent among the humans to cause problems. The Final Five were all mind-wiped by the guy who is Cylon Model #1, for revenge.
Also, not all Cylons are evil, or working to advance the goals of the Cylons. Many of them end up aligned with the humans!
Okay, let's talk about this game. Obviously, faust would not set it up so that the exact same characters are Cylons, or that the exact same characters are Cylon-aligned. If that were the case, we would just mass flavor claim, game over. So I assume that just because you are playing a character who was a Cylon on the show does not automatically mean you are a Cylon here. That's what I was thinking, at least. If this is not the case, then I assume the mafia have fake claims?
Ash's character, Galen, is a Cylon, but is not Cylon-aligned, in BSG.
Background: In Battlestar Galactica, there are two species: humans and Cylons. Humans are just humans. Cylons come in two kinds: Hulking killer machines called Centurions (think Terminator) and the kind that looks like people. There are 12 types of the people kind: All of these Cylons look like one of the 12. Five of the 12 are the Final Five, they are like the creators of all Cylons and there's only one copy of each. The other 7 form the basis of Cylon society, all the Cylons look like one of the 7. Sometimes our heroes figure out someone is a Cylon when they run across the person more than once: If there's another copy of a person, they are one of the 7!
Okay, none of that is particularly important. The important thing is that in the show, many of the Cylons don't know they are Cylons. Some copies are deliberately mind-wiped and sent among the humans to cause problems. The Final Five were all mind-wiped by the guy who is Cylon Model #1, for revenge.
Also, not all Cylons are evil, or working to advance the goals of the Cylons. Many of them end up aligned with the humans!
Okay, let's talk about this game. Obviously, faust would not set it up so that the exact same characters are Cylons, or that the exact same characters are Cylon-aligned. If that were the case, we would just mass flavor claim, game over. So I assume that just because you are playing a character who was a Cylon on the show does not automatically mean you are a Cylon here. That's what I was thinking, at least. If this is not the case, then I assume the mafia have fake claims?
Ash's character, Galen, is a Cylon, but is not Cylon-aligned, in BSG.
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Mafia Game Threads / Re: RMM59: Battlestar Galactica Legacy - Season 1 (Day 2)
« on: March 27, 2021, 10:55:56 am »
I say go ahead, ashersky. This is one of those things we could end up debating for forever.