QuoteGoko friends! We're celebrating a great Summer and the beginning of an even better Fall. We're giving an extra Dominion Expansion (for free!) to anyone that orders $20 or more of Dominion Expansions in the next 48 hours. If buying $20 of expansions means you've got them all, then we'll give you Promo Cards, Adventure Finales, or Zaps instead!
Does anyone else think this might be some sort of "end of the quarter" scramble to up their numbers in terms of paying customers, perhaps as part of calculating a valuation for another round of VC funding? To me, it doesn't seem like a promotion that was well thought out (then again, it is Goko), so it seems more like a desperate attempt to put up some big numbers. Overall, I think such a sale is likely a bad sign for the overall health and viability of Goko as a company. Of course, I may be reading too much into it...
It would be really nice if you could buy Goko expansions with coins, not just Gokoins....
Who really cares about the trueskill from bots.??I only looked at them for the reason that they might reveal something about the Goko rating system (and possibly about Trueskill in the context of Dominion as well, even though the underlying mechanisms are known), out of academic interest as someone who has (very briefly) worked with designing such rating systems.
Potential under/overestimation of bot skill in Goko is also relevant from a meta game design perspective. While hardcore Dominion players might not care about the internal ranking in Goko, the leaderboard is an integral part of the product Goko is offering and non-negligible part of their customers play against bots frequently enough to be affected by such potential bias in their quest of playing the meta game of leaderboard climbing.
Edit: Also, if the bots would, for some reason, have biased estimates in Trueskill, playing against them could be used to game the system. You probably couldn't reach the very top that way, since they have so low skill, but maybe the average players could get a few extra levels that could matter for a contest amongst a group of friends?
Yes, go in User Settings and there is a text field where you can add people to the blacklist.
Thanks.
This solves a lot of the problem that wasn't solved on iso.
If a play against someone who swears or is rude or slow-rolls or anything obnoxious, at least I know it won't happen again.
Appreciate it,
Ed
Wow.
What a pain.
When it was obvious I was going to win he started to wait 4 minutes or so before playing his turn. Every turn.
There is a way to block people with the Extension, right? Not that Guest6628.0000 is likely to be around very long.
(He had a good rating too - I assume it was by slow-rolling a bunch of other people who just got tired of it and quit)
Ed
The same site posted a followup article in which they interview the new Goko CEO. Not a whole lot of information there over the first article, but one tidbit is that an iOS version of Goko Dominion is supposed to ship next month.
http://pockettactics.com/2013/08/13/visions-of-a-new-dominion-an-hour-with-gokos-new-ceo-kate-connally/
Also, I'm finding it hard to justify Witch over cultist. I remember reading that, in the simulator, Witch against Cultist wins a bit more often. Still, in most games the speed at which Cultist junks is more devastating, because it forces you to get your act together really quickly. And then if you don't retaliate with a junker of your own, powerful Cultist chains are very likely to go off.
OK, does anyone else experience long wait times between accepting an automatch and having the other player accept? I'm wondering if it's people being away from their computers, or lag in the system. Sometimes it seems to be instantaneous, other times I've started another game after 3 minutes of waiting on an accepted automatch.
Part of the reason, I think, that automatch doesn't have a critical mass is that the very people who would be early adopters of it also are most likely to find matches the normal way, i.e. through having all the cards and a middling or higher rating.
My user settings get reset to default between sessions. Specifically: the "always turn VP on" thing gets unchecked, the "always stack cards" thing gets unchecked, and the blacklist gets emptied.
Indeed. Thank you all for your suggestions and for you candor. I haven't really thought seriously about the design of the Automatch UI, but it's clear that it's just not going to be a useful feature until it's really obvious and nearly automatic to use. Your ideas on how to make that happen are very useful.
SCSN and whoever else, please don't use Automatch out of a sense of obligation. The feature will stand on its own when I/we get it right, and one person just can't make that much difference in the mean time.
Finally, please don't think that I've been ignoring your feature requests. There's been a steep learning curve for me to get the hang of both collaborative work and of browser extensions. I've gotten a lot of help from michaeljb and I'm finally starting to feel competent with the extensions, rake, and git. So you'll get your beep and more soon. Promise.
