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GokoDom / Re: GokoDom III: Round 2 Results ONLY
« on: March 06, 2014, 05:52:24 pm »
lespeutere defeats GeoLib
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Dominion League / Re: Dominion League?
« on: March 06, 2014, 07:00:41 am »Is the timezone problem such an issue ? I mean, GokoDom proves it can get sorted.
This, mostly. I mean, it's played on the internet, it's not like flying 10 h to meet manzi in Japan.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Getting better
« on: March 04, 2014, 10:23:04 pm »If you post logs of your games in the "Help!" section of the game reports thread (http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?board=18.0) and give some commentary on what you think you did well/poorly, people are generally very helpful.How do you get a url of game logs? I do Have goko salvager, if it is needed
This will open a window with the game log. Paste the url of the log in your post to report your results.
Curse you lespeutere, you ninja'd me with myself!
Not possible, all curses are gone.
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GokoDom / Re: GokoDom III: Round 2 Results ONLY
« on: March 04, 2014, 10:20:41 pm »
No, Wicket defeats Smartie (3-1).
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Getting better
« on: March 02, 2014, 07:51:14 pm »If you post logs of your games in the "Help!" section of the game reports thread (http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?board=18.0) and give some commentary on what you think you did well/poorly, people are generally very helpful.How do you get a url of game logs? I do Have goko salvager, if it is needed
This will open a window with the game log. Paste the url of the log in your post to report your results.
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GokoDom / Re: GokoDom III: Round 2 Discussion Thread
« on: February 28, 2014, 08:16:35 am »Haggler actually speeds up the building process: it let's you get 2 Hunting Parties off a Border Village and a Golem off a Possession purchase.
It does: http://logs.prod.dominion.makingfun.com//20140228/log.50fa840ae4b0f82020d81dfd.1393593195555.txt
Even Lord Bottington could've ended it on t10ish when he hit t3 golem: http://logs.prod.dominion.makingfun.com//20140228/log.50fa840ae4b0f82020d81dfd.1393594007229.txt
(not sure why I cannot put it in the prettified log site; I haven't looked into getting the extension back to running, though)
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GokoDom / Re: GokoDom III: Round 2 Discussion Thread
« on: February 27, 2014, 05:31:50 pm »QuoteThanks for the fun games burtsbees! As I said before, anyone feel free to comment and tell me what I did wrong (and possibly right).
hm, i'm pretty sure that potion would've been the correct play on the second game. the problem is that quarry basically guarantees you'll get possession in a reasonable amount of time. Mh... I'm not sure how exactly you do it best, you could try to only buy treasure cards until you get to possessions, which would guarantee money targets for your golems, but it might be too slow. The alternative is to buy some action cards to help out, armory is nice to get lots of quarries, but it's an awful target for golem, I think the best thing would've been to open silver/quarry, get quarries with $4, hunting parties with $5, potion either before the second or before the third reshuffle, and then just golem/possession. If you don't buy any other cards until you get provinces, you're likely to dig for potion cards with hunting parties, and you will eventually get to >1 possession per turn. Haggler might be worth throwing in aswell, since it can let you gain possession and golem in one turn, but it's another target for golems when you would rather hit possessions.
Maybe that's still too slow. But I don't think it is.
No, this is certainly not correct. If you go possession, you want to basically play the same game, i.e. have hagglers and HP as well as BV to play multiple possessions. Golem's not that important but if you hit 4$P w/o quarry, well, get one.
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GokoDom / Re: GokoDom III: Round 2 Discussion Thread
« on: February 27, 2014, 05:13:06 pm »
Game 2, you observed correctly: GM > gold, and HP > BC. Bandit Camp in fact adds 2 more different cards to your deck, so your few HP have an even harder job to do. I'd say that both of you underestimated cycling here, i.e. gaining a 2nd or 3rd HP is more important than a 2nd haggler, imho. I may be wrong, though, I'm making funny decisions atm.
Possession would've been interesting, I'd really like to try it.
Possession would've been interesting, I'd really like to try it.
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GokoDom / Re: GokoDom III: Round 2 Discussion Thread
« on: February 26, 2014, 01:09:42 pm »Game 4 : "The temptation of a lady" : TheMirrorMan wins.
Sometimes you see that card where you think : I really need this. This will give me a decisive advantage.
We both have 5/3 split (baker coin token). And I see ... Miss Molly on top of the knights. But damn, J-M is to start. He gets Masquerade/Mountebank ... and ... yes, I can buy my beloved Dame Molly and two Masquerades to throw the junk of the mountebank back, right!
Well, let's see, what is wrong with this plan ...
1) There is no stuff to trash in the deck yet!
2) Where am I going to get money from ? Well, free coppers from the Mountebank of course </end sarcasm>
3) My Masquerades collide 2 times ...
As the VP chart shows, J-M starts racing quickly and I'm stuck behind with a card that hits nothing special. Is this the end of round 2 ... ?
And then, in the end, I pull off one of the biggest tricks ... I'm 7 behind, so I can't go out ... But then I masquerade over a curse (and don't get one back), swinging 2 points and buying the last Province.
I have no idea how I pulled this off, but my apologies were sent to my opponent.
You could've got lucky to trash his masquerade or mountebank on t3 or 4 which would've been huge. But that is just a minor point. The crucial difference - imo - is the stables split of 5-2 in your favour. It's not out-of-space-unlikely that you somehow draw Molly and both masquerades together. Note that most of the time you had less coppers than he had, despite him giving you coppers via MB. He got quite unlucky in the beginning. However, from your description, I would've anticipated a much higher VP difference but he was ahead by just 1 province +/-2VP.
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GokoDom / Re: GokoDom III: Round 1 Discussion Thread
« on: February 22, 2014, 08:30:05 pm »
lespeutere vs mail-mi 3-1
1-0
Fun one. mail-mi went for green pretty early despite viable big goons turns. I managed to overtake him by means of VP tokens eventually.
2-0
Rats and knights and expand as weak TFB on rats. I almost screwed it up, but mail-mi couldn't afford taking the lead and 3-pile, leaving me with 1 knight only and behind by 2 VP only.
2-1
Experiment with heralds and saboteurs vs. double vault/BM. Failed. Hilariously.
3-1
IGG with beggars and masterpiece. He pounds IGGs till the end while I have more silvers providing 1 province and a 5-3 duchy split in my favour.
Thanks for the games again, and good luck for further matches.
1-0
Fun one. mail-mi went for green pretty early despite viable big goons turns. I managed to overtake him by means of VP tokens eventually.
2-0
Rats and knights and expand as weak TFB on rats. I almost screwed it up, but mail-mi couldn't afford taking the lead and 3-pile, leaving me with 1 knight only and behind by 2 VP only.
2-1
Experiment with heralds and saboteurs vs. double vault/BM. Failed. Hilariously.
3-1
IGG with beggars and masterpiece. He pounds IGGs till the end while I have more silvers providing 1 province and a 5-3 duchy split in my favour.
Thanks for the games again, and good luck for further matches.
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Goko Dominion Online / Re: Procession and Lighthouse
« on: February 10, 2014, 08:46:00 am »why on earth would they add this line to the german rulebook when it's not correct?
Occasionally the rulebook is wrong, or something discovered/decided later causes them to update the rules.
The original rulebook is not the absolute and unchangeable Word of God. Particularly when it's been translated.
If only it was occasionally, at least the German translations are full of mistakes.
@silverspawn: http://forum.dominionblog.de/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1338
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Dominion League / Re: Dominion League?
« on: February 05, 2014, 04:27:51 pm »Maybe I'm football (i.e. 'soccer') and Europe biased but 5 teams is barely a league, at most a group, e.g. something to start a world cup tournament or champions league with.
The league would be comprised of many groups of 5 (or whatever number is ultimately picked)...unless I'm misunderstanding you.
Maybe some terminology issue. For me, 'league' is the same as division. So we're aiming at a league system with e.g. Colony League, Province Leagues A and B, Duchy Leagues A, B, C, D, etc.
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Dominion League / Re: Dominion League?
« on: February 05, 2014, 04:21:37 pm »
Maybe I'm football (i.e. 'soccer') and Europe biased but 5 teams is barely a league, at most a group, e.g. something to start a world cup tournament or champions league with.
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Dominion League / Re: Dominion League?
« on: February 04, 2014, 03:23:46 am »
I don't think, anybody disputed that strength of play decides at what level of division people are playing. It's just that if there are 16 players for divisions B, one would try to have as little time difference as possible (based on f.ds championships data, that would probably be B1: America, B2: rest, i.e. mainly Europe and Japan).
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Dominion League / Re: Dominion League?
« on: February 01, 2014, 03:23:35 pm »It was mentioned as a good property of the format that the scheduling was comfortable because there was a 7 weeks window to schedule each match. Unless there is that time in between regular seasons, scheduling promotion matches would be more difficult, and for some unfortunate people, it may be exactly in their busy time (family vacations away from the computer, deadlines, whatever).
Making the gap longer makes this scheduling easier, but it also leaves a lot of people that do not play promotion matches without any kind of match for a long time. I would have each season starting immediately after the previous ended. Since there is a large time window to schedule matches, people that prefer to have breaks can have one or two weeks off and schedule their 7 matches in the rest of the window.
Fair enough, breaks or no breaks seems to be open to debate then. I'd prefer short breaks just to not have one (seemingly) endless thing, but separate seasons.
Also, the divisions shouldn't be A-B-etc. They should be
Platinum (8 players)
Gold (16 players)
Silver (32 players)
Copper (64 players)
Shame on you, Alchemist! Where is that potion?
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Dominion League / Re: Dominion League?
« on: February 01, 2014, 11:59:30 am »
How do you arrive at 7 week stops if there are only single matches played for ~motion?
A 2-3 weeks break between seasons is fine and I don't see that much of a problem scheduling a single match within this period.
A 2-3 weeks break between seasons is fine and I don't see that much of a problem scheduling a single match within this period.
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Dominion Videos and Streams / Re: What is the audience for this?
« on: January 27, 2014, 04:54:00 am »Can anyone explain the difference between streaming and streaming to me?
Did you misspeak here? I'm not sure what you're asking. When I talk about streaming, it means that people are watching what I do and say live (with about a 20 second delay) and I can interact with them through the chat.For content: So far, most people have made videos and shown their approach to the actual game and talked about their strategies, but I've already encountered some criticism saying that some viewers regarded that as boring and preferred more of a popcorn dominion approach - whatever that exactly means - but your videos, AdamH, seemed to meet their taste. I must admit that I haven't watched many videos lately, so I don't really know what people tell when they record/stream (I will fix this.).
"Popcorn Dominion" videos. What that means to me is a video that's entertaining to watch, even for someone who isn't watching the video just to get better at the game. To make a contrast, WanderingWinder is really really good at the game and when I watch his videos I learn things, but a more casual player might not. If he gets an unfortunate draw, he rarely shows much emotion in the process. I'd like to think I'm OK at the game, so casual players may certainly get better watching my videos. But I try to make my videos somewhat entertaining by showing my sense of humor (which I realize isn't for everyone). I talk a lot more to the video so maybe it's a little more accessible, and if I get a bad draw I'll whine about it, which some people might think is funny. These are at least my thoughts.Maybe it's worth to consider a channel where several people contribute? Like someone taking over videos where the main focus is strategy (break that down into strategy for beginners, strategy for advanced etc.), others meeting the popcorn dominion audience, others meet the *insert other funny categories here* guys.
Is that what this was intended to be?
I didn't misspeak. I meant that when I record for putting videos up on youtube, it's streamed anyway because the software I use for recording is a streaming software as well.
The link you gave is probably something of that kind. My idea was just that it might be hard for a single player to fill a whole channel unless you're on a gap year or physically ill but not handicapped in any way preventing you from playing dominion and streaming it. And that a number of different approaches ( a) popcorn, b) strategy, c) discuss NBA/Bundesliga/Australian Open results while playing dominion, ...) within one channel would attract a wider audience.
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Dominion Videos and Streams / Re: What is the audience for this?
« on: January 26, 2014, 05:55:46 am »
Can anyone explain the difference between streaming and streaming to me? I mean, I'm using (read: I haven't used for a long time) livestream procaster and that's streamed, which is how the f.ds championship bronze medal match against OWB was streamed life, and I know at least some people were watching it.
For content: So far, most people have made videos and shown their approach to the actual game and talked about their strategies, but I've already encountered some criticism saying that some viewers regarded that as boring and preferred more of a popcorn dominion approach - whatever that exactly means - but your videos, AdamH, seemed to meet their taste. I must admit that I haven't watched many videos lately, so I don't really know what people tell when they record/stream (I will fix this.).
Maybe it's worth to consider a channel where several people contribute? Like someone taking over videos where the main focus is strategy (break that down into strategy for beginners, strategy for advanced etc.), others meeting the popcorn dominion audience, others meet the *insert other funny categories here* guys.
For content: So far, most people have made videos and shown their approach to the actual game and talked about their strategies, but I've already encountered some criticism saying that some viewers regarded that as boring and preferred more of a popcorn dominion approach - whatever that exactly means - but your videos, AdamH, seemed to meet their taste. I must admit that I haven't watched many videos lately, so I don't really know what people tell when they record/stream (I will fix this.).
Maybe it's worth to consider a channel where several people contribute? Like someone taking over videos where the main focus is strategy (break that down into strategy for beginners, strategy for advanced etc.), others meeting the popcorn dominion audience, others meet the *insert other funny categories here* guys.
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GokoDom / Re: GokoDom III: Third Theason Thign-up Thread
« on: January 21, 2014, 03:17:12 am »
In, if you don't mint.
Still some time to kill undill it starts, anybody got thyme to practice with sage?
All.
Still some time to kill undill it starts, anybody got thyme to practice with sage?
All.
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Goko Dominion Online / Re: Furious
« on: November 17, 2013, 05:57:42 am »I am being slow-played RIGHT THIS VERY MOMENT, as I live and breathe.Similar experience before.
His Goko name is barry.
First he accused me of cheating, because I was making pretty good Wishing Well guesses. (I have two cards left in my deck, 2 of them are Copper, I guess Copper, and I am right... obviously I am cheating!)
I kindly explained to him how I was able to make pretty good (though well short of perfect) WW guesses. Well, now he is slow-playing me. Like, really really badly. Usually, people just give it up after like 2-3 turns of this, but he is absolutely committed to it.
I am loathe to give in to the Goko terrorists, so I guess I am going to play it out like this. I am so mad though.
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Goko Dominion Online / Re: Cheaters\bots?
« on: November 11, 2013, 06:06:23 am »He's ranked about 5200, so I would expect rational play.
As an aside: I randomly check opponents' ranks on the Isotropish leaderboard and have played people as low as lvl 25ish despite having the threshold set at 5000+.
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Tournaments and Events / Re: DominionStrategy Championship?
« on: November 07, 2013, 12:23:43 pm »
Mid January would be perfect. The later the better. 
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Goko Dominion Online / Re: Is giving advice so mean?
« on: November 01, 2013, 04:01:32 am »
Just another (minor) issue to add: for non-native speakers, there's always a chance of sounding impolite, especially when coming from a culture that is known for regarding direct criticism not as impolite but as mostly helpful; of course there are people from that same culture who disagree and of course there are examples from the forums that people from other countries share the former attitude. This may even be the case between US and British players but there is obviously much less of a language barrier.
(I am totally unsure about 'cultural' differences between Switzerland and Germany, though, with regard to direct criticism and such.)
(I am totally unsure about 'cultural' differences between Switzerland and Germany, though, with regard to direct criticism and such.)
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Dominion Articles / Re: Merchant Guild
« on: October 30, 2013, 06:21:06 pm »
I edited my post to what I actually meant. 