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GokoDom / Re: Kirian's Bracket, Week 4
« on: April 14, 2012, 07:26:38 pm »
I had a good time Brando, I'm sorry that possession made some of the games painful.  I'm still never sure when I should go for possession or when i should build a deck that defends well against it.  We definitely had some interesting interactions in game 2 with possessions and Golems.  I believe that there were two occasions where the Golems hit 2 possessions while the person was being possessed.  And I know there was one instance where I accidentally clicked the throne room with a possession in hand while possessing his hand...  That said, I think that I did get lucky in a couple of the games.  It was great playing with you Brando, and maybe i'll see you around. 

I definitely think that Alchemy cards get a lot more interesting when you have more than one or two of them in a set.  Then you don't feel as bad throwing a potion into your deck to grab an action when there are other things to spend it on too.  After playing these games, I started liking the Alchemy set a lot more, especially when played with other alchemy cards.

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Game Reports / Re: Very lucky boy...
« on: April 13, 2012, 09:21:42 am »
I played this guy too... he also said "I never get lucky" right after his sabateur hit the province i bought the turn before...

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: No more torturer for us!
« on: April 10, 2012, 02:39:51 pm »
I have been threatened with phsyical violence over Minion by friends before...

same... If we play veto mode IRL, if i'm playing they veto minions... it's really a shame... 

I remember the first time I played with torturer... I nearly rage quit since I was playing a 4 player game and didn't think taking the curses was good so getting hit by 3 torturers in a row, does not make for a fun first torturer game...

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Defeating BM in 4p
« on: April 10, 2012, 02:34:50 pm »
You say you got two megaturns, but 8-10 goons points is not even close to a megaturn. You need to be looking to get 3-4 Goons in play drawing with throne rooms and labs. With workers villages you can be shooting for 40 point turns, depending on how many goons you can get.

As for the grand market game, GM is often a trap card. Likely, some sort of big money strategy was the way to go.

The reason I could not get bigger "megaturns" is that with 3 of us going for all the same engine components, I could only get 4 labs, 4 worker's villages and by that point I could only get 2 goons.  This is my whole point: That BM seems stronger in multiplayer games because (in that case) the only other dominant strategy required competing to get all the engine components, which when you have 3 other players to compete against to get all the components you want.  So in my case, I came up short in the goons, where as another player came up short in the drawing or +buy cards.

And if GM is a trap card, when should I be buying it?

The second reason is 3 pile endings may come a lot sooner. While everyone isbusy grabbing Throne Rooms, Labs and what not, they may easily clear 2 piles in no time while the BM-player is already grabbing VP cards. Once they're down the the last card of the third pile, the BM player can simply grab it to end and win the game.

This was another big concern in the game, nobody wanted to run down the worker's village/labs/goons too low just for the BM guy to just end it.  we have definitely played games where everyone goes for the same engine components and then we don't realize how close the game is to being over and then someone buys a duchy and the last pile and wins...  That's why sometimes the most interesting sets may not be as fun in multiplayer since it'll be over really fast.

All that said, I still really like playing multiplayer more than 2 player in person, I just need to figure out how to change my strategy to account for it after playing on Isotropic so much...


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Dominion General Discussion / Defeating BM in 4p
« on: April 10, 2012, 12:20:13 pm »
So I play Dominion IRL mostly (at least, I prefer IRL) and when I do i usually play with 3-5 people.  My one friend that we often play with only ever plays a BM or a BM+X with the X being a +draw card.  We keep telling him that this isn't always the best strategy (and certainly not the most fun) but he actually wins the majority of the time.  Out of the 14 games I've played with him, he has earned 38 more points than me (yes, I record our scores and do some minor statistics on them, we play often enough).  Anyways, my suspicion is that this has a lot to do with it being a 4 player game.  The other night we had worker's village, goons, monument, laboratory, throne room in (i don't remember the rest) and so I went for a goons/lab/worker's village strategy and was able to have 2 goons megaturns (8 and 10 points off of double goons) and he still beat me by 7 points (he only lost by 1 to someone else).  Here's what I think the biggest problem was though: The other 3 players were all running the same goons strategy.  So our strategies were actually anti-synergizing with eachother because we would only ever have 3 card hands.  However, with platinum and colonies in, the BM player was able to get a good amount of money each turn, even with only 3 cards.  So I think if we were playing 2 player i could have destroyed him.  Another example:  We just finished a game with markets, grand markets and militias.  Because the 3 of us were all going for grand markets and markets, we had a (mostly) even split between them, whereas in 2p I would get all/most of the GMs and would have been able to again destroy the BM player.  What does anyone else think?  Is BM or BM+X significantly more powerful in multiplayer than 2 player because money doesn't run out but the actions do?  Does it require a  much faster deck to defeat BM+X in 3 player games?

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Dominion Isotropic / Re: Problem with game history
« on: March 30, 2012, 11:47:56 am »
i know i get that same 404 message when trying to view isotropic logs (ie the ones you get at the end of each game) here at work.  the same logs pulled from council room never give me that issue.
it's probably a similar situation.  I'll try viewing them on council room and see if that works

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Dominion Isotropic / Re: How do some people play so fast?
« on: March 28, 2012, 01:39:30 pm »
The speed that people play (and that I am forced to play) is another reason why I like the physical cards better.  It's easier to see what's going on and i end up doing much better in person...

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Dominion Isotropic / Problem with game history
« on: March 27, 2012, 01:59:18 pm »
For the past couple of weeks i haven't been able to view a game summary, it just comes up with a 404 page not found error.  I was just wondering if anyone else has experienced this...  I thought at first it was an isotropic problem but since it hasn't resolved...

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Hidden Village: an after-the-fact village
« on: March 27, 2012, 10:35:18 am »
Playing face down? Don't like that idea, as its unclear whether other players get to see that card, and thus would require a degree of honesty from less scrupulous players (something that Dominion has been noted to trying to avoid). Plus the rules would need a lot of clarifications baout what face down means. Is a face down treasure still a treasure in play? Etc.

I see that what you're trying to say though - either use it as money or as a free +1 card/+1action. I think it needs rephrasing though.

how about instead of playing face down, you play it face up, but it is no longer a treasure, more like a conspirator except backwards.  if you have no actions left, +2 treasure +1 action +1 card, this costs no actions to play

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GokoDom / Re: IsoDom Challenge Sign-up
« on: March 17, 2012, 02:45:22 pm »
Isotropic name: AHoppy

USA EST

My level is low, but I was at 11 at one point, but i'd love to play

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