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2011 / Re: Schedule and Results: 2011 DominionStrategy.com Championships

« on: December 03, 2011, 04:57:59 am »

We've played 3 games so far:  Axxle 2-1 Yuki_1229
Axxle 38-26         http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/03/game-20111203-012510-c77de82c.html
Yuki_1229 41-29  http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/03/game-20111203-013031-29d8cc4a.html
Axxle 74-71         http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201112/03/game-20111203-015010-9517ab0d.html

(i hope i didn't miss one, hahaha...)

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Dominion Isotropic / Re: Leaderboard change

« on: December 01, 2011, 04:02:53 pm »

I suppose it's easy for me to gloss over that "loss", as I've never used automatch +/- rank.  I'd rather get a fast match against a level 7 than wait for a level 37.  However, I will also note that under the current system, I can't honestly tell a difference in the level of play between the 7 and the 37.

If I can't tell a player's actual skill level from his skill estimate or rank, then what's the point?  It seems all this change caters to is the people who care about rising up the ranks, but not actually caring if their skill level is improving.  I'm still having fun playing, but I no longer have that competitive feeling that the leaderboard used to provide.  That disappoints me.

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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Exception to the rule, part 2

« on: November 30, 2011, 07:43:35 pm »

I can more usefully send you Coppers and Curses with Ambassador. I can trash them on Upgrade without gaining stuff I might not want. Owning them is not "strictly worse".

True. The common definition of strict superiority ignores trash-for-benefit and similar effects.

You can use copper for counting house and coppersmith, and curses for... I don't know.  I can't discard a silver to ignore Mountebanks attack so that's something.

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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Most points with no VP chips.

« on: November 30, 2011, 04:23:39 am »

I found the following Solution:

Kingdom Cards:
Gardens
Vineyards
Silk Road
Fairgrounds
Duke
Nobles
Island
Great Halls
City
Young Witch
Black Market (Bane Card)


Your Black Market deck will consist of:
Tunnel, Harem, Tournament, Kings Court, Throne Room, Bridge, Highway
and 18 other action cards

You will be able to buy all cards in the end, emptying all stacks in the last turn, your deck will then have the following cards:

11 Estate (11VP)
8 Duchy (24 VP)
8 Province (48 VP)
8 Colony (80VP)
4 Curse (-4VP)
8 Gardens (320 Cards = 256 VP)
8 Vineyards (81 Actions = 216 VP)
8 Silk Road (101 VP Cards = 200VP)
8 Fairgrounds (51 different Cards = 160 VP)
8 Duke (64 VP)
1 Tunnel (Black Market) (2VP)
1 Harem (Black Market)  (2VP)
8 Nobles (16 VP)
8 Great Halls (8VP)
8 Island (16VP)
10 City
10 Young Witch
10 Black Market
23 Actions from Black Market Deck (1 Bridge, 1 Kings Court etc...)
4 Tournament Prize Actions (1 Trusty Steed, 1 Followers, 1 Pricess, 1 Bag of Gold)
1 Diadem (Tournament Prize)
60 Copper
40 Silver
30 Gold
16 Potion
12 Platinum

That is a total of 1099 VP

Let's see if anyone can beat that

I can also write a little something about my approach if some people are interested.
Also, I am interested in a solution involving Goons, if I have an hour to spare, I will probably work on that as well.

Why Great Hall as a kingdom card and not Harem or Tunnel.  Surely that would bump up the score.

edit: I forgot that you actually have to buy everything by the end. Don't want to calculate it to see if it's possible right now.

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Game Reports / Re: Fun with IGG

« on: November 29, 2011, 10:52:49 pm »

[Omitted] plays an Ambassador.
... [Omitted] reveals an Ill-Gotten Gains.
... returning it to the supply.
... Axxle gains an Ill-Gotten Gains.
... ... [Omitted] gains a Curse.

That made me laugh just a little

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2011 / Re: How to find my opponent "LexiphanicLemur "?

« on: November 29, 2011, 09:23:29 pm »

He has not logged into the forum since November 21.  Did you send him private messages on the forum, or did you actually email him directly from the forum?

It doesn't look like my opponent (yuki_1229) is able to be emailed through the forum, so I sent her a PM a few days ago.  She hasn't logged in to the forum since November 21 but has been on isotropic.  I'm still worried that I may not be able to get in contact with her.

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Dominion Isotropic / Re: Leaderboard change

« on: November 26, 2011, 06:37:15 pm »

I find that currently I'm ranked about the same and haven't seen many problems with it.  But I can definitely forsee myself trailing off in activity like before and would be very discouraged if I had to crawl back up from rank 0 again.  I'd be very bored with playing people much below my rank in order to do so.  So count me in for reverting the change.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Dominion Limericks!

« on: November 21, 2011, 09:12:05 pm »

Remodel
I decided to Turbo Remodel
For it was a tactic I coddle
I 'modeled away
But to my dismay
It was more of a Remodel Toddle

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2011 / Re: 2011 DominionStrategy.com Championships Registration

« on: November 21, 2011, 02:35:50 pm »

Axxle

PST