A lot of beginners also look at Chapel and ask why did they print this card.Ah, I remember learning Dominion...when I saw Chapel, my first thought was "There's clearly something I don't understand about trashing."
Thanks for the reply. That all makes sense (well, minus the whole order of the Necropolis red, but whatever) - close enough to perfection.I know Donald has said that coloring is used to alert you when you're holding your hand that you might want to do something (ie reveal a reaction card). Can someone help me out on why Ruined Market shouldn't be brown/white, or Necropolis only orange?The Ruins cards are all actions. As with Duration cards, being half white wouldn't be telling you anything extra. I mean the game could have gone that way from the beginning, but it didn't.
The Shelters meanwhile are not all Actions. With two of them indicating the other type it seemed best if Necropolis also did.
Again I do not know why Necropolis doesn't have red on the same side as the others. You can't be consistent for every type, but these could have been consistent. You could ask Catrein, he did the layout.
I don't think I'm getting something about the colors in general.Is anyone else freaking out that Necropolis should be red on the top and not the bottom, to match the other two? Maybe I need to get my OCD checked...
Yes. I'm telling myself it won't be as bad when I'm actually playing, rather than seeing them all right next to each other like that, but I don't think I'm convincing myself.
Any chance there are cards that START in the trash?This...this could be fascinating. Perhaps if there were, they could help explain some of the "missing cards" space realized in other threads. Perhaps might also explain Graverobber's cost range.
zxcvbn2 beats Voltaire 10 points to 4Want to give a belated thanks for the fun games!
Anyway, they were fun games, thanks for playing Voltaire!
Voltaire 45 - 36 Robz888 http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201204/07/game-20120407-094759-f4cb1d7e.html
Nothing too exciting going on here, so I go with a Bishop plan. He goes Island/Silver, which doesn't scare me. Well, I don't hit $6 until Turn 12, and by then he already has 3 Provinces. So that's that.
Robz888 46 - 37 Voltaire http://dominion.isotropic.org/gamelog/201204/07/game-20120407-095756-454a338e.html
I'm a little demoralized from my Ghost Ship losing to his No Ship, going into this game. With no engine potential, this is definitely a Wharf Big Money game. He goes Silver/Silver, I go Silver/Feast. I'm not sure which was better. Well, I mean Silver/Silver is definitely better, but I didn't want to take the risk of not getting a Wharf immediately. Although the risk of that is so low, thinking about it now, I'm almost certainly wrong. Anyway, first turn advantage and adequate luck earns me a win in a boring, but close, game.
Thanks to my opponent for the games!
Mic Qsenoch wins 6-1 against VoltaireA very fun set of games against Mic Qsenoch, who quickly established himself as the superior player. It was extremely fun and I'm glad we were about to squeeze all our games in during a chance meeting on Iso.
You can take pops' spot, Voltaire. You have a make-up match with WW to get in by the end. Let me know.Thanks. Mic Qsenoch and I are trading PMs, and I'll be in touch later, WW. Thanks for letting me sub in!
It seems pops is not intending to participate in the tournament. He hasn't responded to my messages, and apparently the same thing happened in Round 1.Well, if anybody's still looking for replacement players, I'd be interested. I missed the sign-ups by literally one hour, I think.
I must fight for their greater appreciation!
The last one was a while ago, but I dunno, hopefully it'll be semi-regularly. This one was really successful, with all 16 slots filled and quite good competition and everything, so I would imagine they would be encouraged to do more.Happy to help, in all honesty! I felt terrible dropping out at the last minute and hoped someone on the waiting list would get to play.
And thanks for not going, my girlfriend's brother was first on the waiting list and he got to go instead
With "trash all supply," buying a Province would be a great way to initiate a 3-pile by buying one Province to empty an entire pile.Hmm... you gain it from Thief and are told to put it into your Investment mat, which you can't because there is no mat, so you can't do that, and it goes in your discard pile. Is that wrong?
More important is it's interaction with Royal Seal and Watchtower.
Possible solution: Remove the mat entirely. Have it be worth $4 if someone has purchased a Province, $1 otherwise. The "trash all supply" rule could still be there, if desired.
I guess I opened a can of worms here. I was referring mostly to the players on the forum where my 25-30 area is a bit below mid-level compared to the forum. Considering in the DominionStrategy tournament I was a 29 to start and was dead in the middle of the bracket (I would have played a number 1 seed in round 2 had I won), I think upper 20s-low 30s is mid-level. That's still not to say we are all great players that play perfectly, even at the high levels above 40, but its a start point.This makes sense. I've peaked at about Level 24 and I'm still working on effectively counting/tracking my deck ("Has my platinum come up this shuffle? No idea!") and those sorts of things I know true mid/upper level players do out of habit. I certainly don't "feel" like I'm a mid-level player yet. Just a very, very, very good low-level Isotropic player (like everyone else here, I usually dominate my friends in real life).
