There has been a lot of complaining about the move over to fun sockets. While I am optimistic that fun dominion play will go on, I think there has been an aspect of this anxiety that has been overlooked. The community built on isotropic+dominionstrategy+councilroom (plus the sims too) is awesome, and most of the complaining comes from how good this community is, and anxiety that it will change. I think that community will change a bit, but ultimately still be pretty awesome, and continue to grow.
However, that argument is not the point of this thread. Rather, its to thank the people involved in this community: particularly dougz, theory, and of course Donald X. Vaccarino. How cool is it that a game designer is so involved in the community and let us have years of online dominion without seeing a penny. How cool is it that people are willing to host servers, write elaborate code, and write strategy articles, all for such an awesome game, and for no profit.
So Lets say thank you, to all the people who have made this community awesome.