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JustANewPlayer

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Solitaire exploit: any way to take advantage of it?
« on: March 15, 2012, 07:56:46 pm »
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When in Iso's solitaire mode, you make the choices for cards like Envoy that you play. This gets more interesting with Possession: namely, the fact that all trashed cards are instead discarded. Immediately, I thought of using Bishop. Any other ways to abuse this? Obviously, this doesn't work in real game, but I still think it's an interesting thought experiment.
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Re: Solitaire exploit: any way to take advantage of it?
« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2012, 09:22:59 pm »
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There's probably something ridiculous to be done with self-tribute.
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Re: Solitaire exploit: any way to take advantage of it?
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2012, 09:56:08 pm »
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Bishop doesn't work - the possessed player receives the victory chips, not the possessing player.
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Re: Solitaire exploit: any way to take advantage of it?
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2012, 09:58:50 pm »
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Quote from: Taco Lobster on March 15, 2012, 09:56:08 pm
Bishop doesn't work - the possessed player receives the victory chips, not the possessing player.

Right, but I'm talking about specifically in solitaire games, where you're both the possessing player and the one being possessed.
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Re: Solitaire exploit: any way to take advantage of it?
« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2012, 10:22:33 pm »
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OK, I didn't realize until trying this that in solitaire games, Possession (especially with KC) allows you to take as many turns as you like without increasing the turn counter. Throw in Bishop and some other silly card like Governor, and I'm sure this could be formulated into some kind of puzzle. (Minimum number of turns until you can gain as many points as you like?)
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Re: Solitaire exploit: any way to take advantage of it?
« Reply #5 on: March 18, 2012, 06:55:21 pm »
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Apprenticing the same card repeatedly? Salvaging the same colony multiple times? A tesselation of repeated develops, spiraling into itself? Possibilities=Endless as fuuuuudge!

Expand and remodel let you remodel a colony or a platinum into another colony while keeping the original.
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