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[Witherweaver]

Current version is still incredibly laggy and effectively unplayable.

Scrying Pool should not take this long to resolve on fastest possible speed.

[Witherweaver]

There is no reason that I should have to wait to watch things resolve.  The game state should be able to change effectively instantly.  That's the whole point of playing an electronic version; you don't have to do all the things that take time.  Why emulate taking time?

[Mic Qsenoch]

There is no reason that I should have to wait to watch things resolve.  The game state should be able to change effectively instantly.  That's the whole point of playing an electronic version; you don't have to do all the things that take time.  Why emulate taking time?

You just haven't played it enough Witherweaver, your opinion is hasty and unreasonable. Your perception of time still needs to be corrected by this new and revolutionary piece of enlightening technology.

[Donald X.]

I guess I'll still try the new version again once the animations are (finally) fixed. *sigh*

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a gauntleted hand clicking on a download button - forever.

[Burning Skull]

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a gauntleted hand clicking on a download button - forever.

Yeah,

Animations good, more animations better

[Aleimon Thimble]

I just want to say that the Kingdom Builder is awesome! I didn't expect it would come back, but I'm really glad it did. <3

[Elanchana]

I asked about misclick prevention on the MF forums and this is what I got.

I'm still keeping a lot of hope for 2.0. Yeah, some features are no better than 1.0/Goko and some are even worse, but can be said for 2.0 is that they're still working on it. And I don't think they're gonna make it official until at least most of it is f.ds-approved.

(You know, maybe they're waiting until they implement the Adventures cards to work in misclick prevention? Adventures adds a ton of new mechanics so it's not impossible that they'd want to move around the old buttons while they're adding the new ones.)

[Watno]

The next release (2.0.42) will be a relatively quick one, so we'll have to see how much we can get done. Things slated
We won't get all the features we want in before we shut 1.0 down, but afterwards we'll continue to implement features and release regularly. In fact it will be easier then, because we can focus our time on that instead of supporting 1.0. Features we desperately want like social features (friends list, etc.), the ability to play on tablets, and ones like I mentioned in the previous post will likely come shortly after shutting 1.0 down.

This implies to me they'll shut the old version down before the new one is good enough, worst case probably being shutdown in 1-2 weeks when the iOs-App is approved.

[Witherweaver]

The next release (2.0.42) will be a relatively quick one, so we'll have to see how much we can get done. Things slated
We won't get all the features we want in before we shut 1.0 down, but afterwards we'll continue to implement features and release regularly. In fact it will be easier then, because we can focus our time on that instead of supporting 1.0. Features we desperately want like social features (friends list, etc.), the ability to play on tablets, and ones like I mentioned in the previous post will likely come shortly after shutting 1.0 down.

This implies to me they'll shut the old version down before the new one is good enough, worst case probably being shutdown in 1-2 weeks when the iOs-App is approved.

So you're saying there will be nowhere to play Dominion online?

[Watno]

Well, there will be the thing that is now the MF beta client.

[Kirian]

Well, there will be the thing that is now the MF beta client.

Which is, let's stress again, still less polished than the Prismata alpha client.

I suppose we shouldn't have actually expected anything better than Goko releasing what is really an alpha into the wild, just because it's now a different company.

Everyone close your eyes and imagine a past where Playdek got the Dominion license.  It's a wonderful dream.

[LastFootnote]

Everyone close your eyes and imagine a past where Playdek got the Dominion license.  It's a wonderful dream.

Don't they only make games for iOS, though?

[Voltaire]

And let's also remember that they spent months (MONTHS!) re-coding everything from scratch, including all the bad UI.

[Witherweaver]

And let's also remember that they spent months (MONTHS!) re-coding everything from scratch, including all the bad UI.

I wonder how many months were spent making the animations...

[Watno]

Everyone close your eyes and imagine a past where Playdek got the Dominion license.

That's basically the only thing imaginable worse tahn what happened.

[azadin]

Everyone close your eyes and imagine a past where Playdek got the Dominion license.

That's basically the only thing imaginable worse tahn what happened.

Barring the limited platform support Playdek has for its games, the quality of their products is top-notch. I regularly play Agricola on my iPhone/iPad and the experience is wonderful. I've also played some Lord of Waterdeep and Ascension and had similar experiences there. If Playdek got the Dominion license, then the mobile version would likely be a pleasure to use once they were finished with it.

It's all rather moot, though, since a non-trivial percentage of players will be on desktops/laptops (or Android devices), and Playdek doesn't do those. Oh, and Goko/MF got the license anyway. So yeah, what Kirian said.

[Kirian]

Playdek did bring Ascension and Summoner Wars to Android, but I assume their lack of PC support would have kept them from getting the Dominion license, which isn't unreasonable.  Meanwhile, Pocket Tactics, who have been watching this since so long back, has this gem:

http://www.pockettactics.com/news/ios-news/nowhere-to-goko-but-up-dominion-online-submitted-to-apple/

"The entire story of Dominion on tablets is far too long and twisted to recant in its entirety here, so let me sum it up with one word: derp."

[Awaclus]

moot

Pretty sure Dominion Online would be better if moot had gotten the license.

[cactus]

derp derp

[Beyond Awesome]

There seems to be a memory leak issue going on. I only play three games and my computer gets laggy. Also, lots of reports of poeple's computers overheating on their forums. MF is aware of the issue, but has not made it a priority. They are still talking of shutting down the Goko version before the memory leak issue is taken care of.

[Witherweaver]

There seems to be a memory leak issue going on. I only play three games and my computer gets laggy. Also, lots of reports of poeple's computers overheating on their forums. MF is aware of the issue, but has not made it a priority. They are still talking of shutting down the Goko version before the memory leak issue is taken care of.

The magical pixie that draws all the animations whenever anything at all happens in the game state took too much acid and is now running on hyperdrive and sloughing off heat like crazy, wrecking havoc on all the component systems, including the poor hamster running around the wheel that keeps everything going.

[SCSN]

They are still talking of shutting down the Goko version before the memory leak issue is taken care of.

If you were being outcompeted by Goko, you too would find it so embarrassing that you'd want it taken care of first.

[Cave-o-sapien]

They are still talking of shutting down the Goko version before the memory leak issue is taken care of.

If you were being outcompeted by Goko, you too would find it so embarrassing that you'd want it taken care of first.

s/Goko/Isotropic

[Cave-o-sapien]

So that problem where running in Fullscreen mode on OS X doesn't let you tab away, yeah, that's still there.

WTF?


But hey, now I've got a gauntleted cursor. Makes me nostalgic for 1995.

[jsh357]

Today's update claims it fixes some of the speed problems.

EDIT: I just tested. Hilariously, Hunting party is faster, but now playing treasures has a silly delay for some reason and cards pop up on the screen for what seems like an extra half second.  I'm not sure what to say.

http://forum.makingfun.com/showthread.php?7854-Release-Notes-v-2-0-42&p=40200#post40200

Features and Improvements
If someone challenges you with specific kingdom cards the dialog you get now shows what those cards are. Also, the rating system used for the game is displayed. (1617)
Overhauled speed settings: made cards that revealed multiple other cards play much faster, eliminated unnecessary delays, made operations like shuffling and opponents' dealing faster, made pause times that show important information longer, made speed slider differentiate speeds better, smoothed out card animations, etc. (575, 864, 928)
Added sounds for receipt of a challenge or chat message. This can also alert you when your game is going to time out. (1449, 1604)
Layout improvements with 16:9 and 16:10 screen ratios when the game log is turned on, so that the supply cards aren't made so small (1523)
Show the number of coins to be gained after playing Pirate Ship (907)
Show which opponent quit the game in the results screen (1452)
Hides the Save Kingdom button if the game you just played used one of your saved kingdoms that specified all the cards (1603)
Hides the Rematch button after a game if one of your opponents disconnected during the game (1661)
Selecting Rematch after a campaign game now gives opportunity to get extra turns (1446)
Display the Campaign name and Act number in a banner on the top of the sub-maps (1588)
Display completed games differently on the act maps for campaigns
Updated paths and textures for Base Set campaigns
Links on main screen intended for beta have been removed (1376)


Bug Fixes
Fixed: Can't select cards in the "More Cards" window after playing Journeyman, Mystic, Wishing Well, Doctor, etc. (1643)
Fixed: Forgets Expansion Biases on Seek Screen between games (1631)
Fixed: Promo cards were being ignored when generating kingdom in Seek games (1654)
Fixed: Some Hinterlands cards were missing from the Choose Cards screen and from the store page. (1629)
Fixed: Dark Ages store page was missing the shelters and individual knights (1448, 1665, 1666)
Fixed: Draws were recorded as wins for some games (1554)
Fixed: Graphics problem when zoom in Black Market deck (1590)
Corrected How-to-Play link in Help dialog (1645)
Fixed issues with Sign Up (1633, 1644)
Fixed issue with email for social login convertor (1268)
Website, etc. (1561, 1609, 1628, 1632)