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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #2575 on: December 17, 2015, 04:50:39 pm »
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Ok, ok, old joke, but hey! Recycling jokes is an old habit of mint.

I love recycling jokes as well! This is one of my favorites:


I got in a lot of trouble when they found my wife's body in my bin. Apparently I should have put it in the green one.
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #2576 on: December 17, 2015, 04:54:54 pm »
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Ok, ok, old joke, but hey! Recycling jokes is an old habit of mint.

I love recycling jokes as well! This is one of my favorites:


I got in a lot of trouble when they found my wife's body in my bin. Apparently I should have put it in the green one.
that joke is trash
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #2577 on: December 17, 2015, 06:50:17 pm »
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Donald, serious question.... Did ya miss me?

And seriously, this threads still going after 100 pages, surely the amount of useful information to posting ratio has to be abysmically low by now? (More so now I'm here of course!)
Well I did talk about you some, when protesting the potential existence of serious-only threads. Oh man you missed a good thread about otters.

There are still actual new questions, and I mean it's a thread, these are forums, you know, all that. We're doing the thing, we're posting; it's its own reward.
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #2578 on: December 17, 2015, 06:52:13 pm »
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I like reading everything on one page.

Donald, how many pages do you see?
I like using the default setting unless it makes pages really short. Then me and other people are... on the same page.
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #2579 on: January 02, 2016, 09:40:00 am »
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This thread now has over 100 pages, so i hope i will not be regarded as an unpolite jerk for not reading through all of it to check. Either way, i hope this question wasn't asked before and apologize if it has:

Did you write the Dominion rulebook yourself, Donald? I assume that you had a say in it, as obviously you know the rules better than anyone, but i wonder whether things like the overall structure are done by specific explanation-pros. I'm not really talking about visual design, allthough for special remark boxes and explaining images the topics will intersect.
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #2580 on: January 02, 2016, 01:33:56 pm »
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Did you write the Dominion rulebook yourself, Donald? I assume that you had a say in it, as obviously you know the rules better than anyone, but i wonder whether things like the overall structure are done by specific explanation-pros. I'm not really talking about visual design, allthough for special remark boxes and explaining images the topics will intersect.
I write the rulebooks now, but Valerie wrote the rulebooks at the start. I don't think she had any rulebook-writing experience, but she got that job. I would have been happy to do it but did not get to. I have big plans to write that rulebook someday though.

The main set rulebook was modified after the game won the SdJ, in order to better match the German rulebook.
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #2581 on: January 08, 2016, 11:00:58 am »
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As with previous poster, apolgies if this has been addressed before. I don't think it has, because I don't know the answer.

Is there any reason why the mechanic of paying money mid-turn has been used so sparingly? (only on Black Market and Storyteller)

I'm asking for a friend.  He is into designing custom cards, and insists there is "considerable design space there".  I'm less optimistic, but can't articulate why to him, other than that I personally don't care for it.
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #2582 on: January 08, 2016, 12:28:47 pm »
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Is there any reason why the mechanic of paying money mid-turn has been used so sparingly? (only on Black Market and Storyteller)

I'm asking for a friend.  He is into designing custom cards, and insists there is "considerable design space there".  I'm less optimistic, but can't articulate why to him, other than that I personally don't care for it.
Originally Prosperity tried out paying $ as a sub-theme, although the specific cards didn't work out. Other sets avoided it to let Prosperity have it, although later I had Black Market and an Alchemy (large version) card that let you buy a card to hand (revived and then fixed as Artificer).

Also, originally there was no Buy phase, and buying meant being able to play Treasures. This is why Black Market has a messed-up phrasing that assumes you can play Treasures.

Black Market confuses some people, though again part of that is just a bad phrasing. Also you need extra text to allow Treasures to be played. After Black Market I decided I would just do "discard a card" or "discard a Treasure" in place of "pay $1," depending on how generous I was feeling.

"Pay $ to draw" started out in Prosperity; the card as I had it seemed crazy and I didn't try to fix it up. Stables does it, in a version that only lets you pay once. Then in Adventures I tried "discard Silvers for +2 Cards per," which seemed promising for a bit, and then somehow convinced myself to go for playing treasures and spending $ again.

So, it was initially a thing, but for the most part I personally find "discard some cards/Treasures" to be simpler and close enough.

Paying $ has tracking issues, but often you can turn the spent $ sideways. And there's doing it in the Buy phase.
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #2583 on: January 08, 2016, 07:22:34 pm »
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Thanks for the reply Donald!  I don't know whether most game designers are as involved in the ongoing support forbtheir games as you are, but I kind of assume not, and the fact that you are is just fantastic.

I can see that on-play costs for actions is something you've certainly explored, and I agree that discarding cards is the most elegant form, but do you think there's scope for other forms of it?  An action that gains a curse wjen played?  Or requires you to take your -1 card or -1$ token?  Use of the negative $ production phenomenon currently only seen on Poor House?

Still asking for a friend.  My attitude towards custom Dominion sets is like my attitude towards peculiar homemade pornography.  Whatever you do in your own home is your own business, but don't go around posting it in the internet because people are only going to start looking at you funny and wondering what's wrong with you.
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #2584 on: January 08, 2016, 09:49:11 pm »
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I can see that on-play costs for actions is something you've certainly explored, and I agree that discarding cards is the most elegant form, but do you think there's scope for other forms of it?  An action that gains a curse wjen played?  Or requires you to take your -1 card or -1$ token?  Use of the negative $ production phenomenon currently only seen on Poor House?
Giving yourself a Curse, or a card with built-in -VP, are things everyone thinks of that I tried long ago, that had no fans when actually tried. Giving yourself the -1 Card or -$1 token is so doable that I did it, on Borrow and Ball. And Poor House is Poor House; in general you can probably get more than one card out of a concept like that, it's all down to how happy you are having cards that are similar.

Maybe your friend needs to get an account and hang out in the variants forum! I am not so much looking for questions along the lines of "how about this card idea?"
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #2585 on: January 08, 2016, 11:09:01 pm »
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what is your favorite album cover art and brand of chocolate? if you had to be eating the chocolate while admiring the cover art, would your answer change? which of your hands is your favorite?
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #2586 on: January 08, 2016, 11:22:30 pm »
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what is your favorite album cover art and brand of chocolate? if you had to be eating the chocolate while admiring the cover art, would your answer change? which of your hands is your favorite?
People, please, always check the thread to make sure your question hasn't been answered already.
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« Reply #2587 on: January 08, 2016, 11:34:57 pm »
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what is your favorite album cover art and brand of chocolate? if you had to be eating the chocolate while admiring the cover art, would your answer change? which of your hands is your favorite?
People, please, always check the thread to make sure your question hasn't been answered already.
you did not answer all five of those
i searched with the search bar several variants of 'cover art' and then after your response i looked through my tears at the extended results of the word album and NONE OF YOUR RESPONSES REGARD THE ART
and don't even get me started on the chocolate/hands
even though you made the game that i decided earlier today was my favorite one i am all but forced to call you a steamy thunderbutt

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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #2588 on: January 08, 2016, 11:54:23 pm »
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what is your favorite album cover art and brand of chocolate? if you had to be eating the chocolate while admiring the cover art, would your answer change? which of your hands is your favorite?
People, please, always check the thread to make sure your question hasn't been answered already.
you did not answer all five of those
i searched with the search bar several variants of 'cover art' and then after your response i looked through my tears at the extended results of the word album and NONE OF YOUR RESPONSES REGARD THE ART
and don't even get me started on the chocolate/hands
even though you made the game that i decided earlier today was my favorite one i am all but forced to call you a steamy thunderbutt

Well it's not my interview, but I feel like answering anyways.

Album Cover Art: Dark Side of the Moon
Brand of Chocolate: Hershey's
My answers to both would remain the same.
I am primarily right-handed, so that would be my answer as well.
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #2589 on: January 08, 2016, 11:54:44 pm »
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what is your favorite album cover art and brand of chocolate? if you had to be eating the chocolate while admiring the cover art, would your answer change? which of your hands is your favorite?
People, please, always check the thread to make sure your question hasn't been answered already.
you did not answer all five of those
i searched with the search bar several variants of 'cover art' and then after your response i looked through my tears at the extended results of the word album and NONE OF YOUR RESPONSES REGARD THE ART
and don't even get me started on the chocolate/hands
even though you made the game that i decided earlier today was my favorite one i am all but forced to call you a steamy thunderbutt

Maybe the posts are in the future, did you check there?

Here's the chocolate brand post you missed, that's right, there was one. It's in another thread but the search bar has no prejudices. http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=10698.msg358259#msg358259

And in case you're going to ask me what my superpower is: it's googling.
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #2590 on: January 09, 2016, 12:46:30 am »
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what is your favorite album cover art and brand of chocolate? if you had to be eating the chocolate while admiring the cover art, would your answer change? which of your hands is your favorite?
People, please, always check the thread to make sure your question hasn't been answered already.
you did not answer all five of those
i searched with the search bar several variants of 'cover art' and then after your response i looked through my tears at the extended results of the word album and NONE OF YOUR RESPONSES REGARD THE ART
and don't even get me started on the chocolate/hands
even though you made the game that i decided earlier today was my favorite one i am all but forced to call you a steamy thunderbutt

Maybe the posts are in the future, did you check there?

Here's the chocolate brand post you missed, that's right, there was one. It's in another thread but the search bar has no prejudices. http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=10698.msg358259#msg358259

And in case you're going to ask me what my superpower is: it's googling.

i haven't, but i will in a bit.

i bet your superpower isn't even googling, mr. arseboom, i bet it's art history
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #2591 on: January 09, 2016, 03:58:51 am »
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Maybe your friend needs to get an account and hang out in the variants forum! I am not so much looking for questions along the lines of "how about this card idea?"

Excellent advice!  Thank you, have a great day!
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #2592 on: January 09, 2016, 03:59:04 am »
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[quote author=Harley_Beckett link=topic=5799.msg558288#msg558288 date=1452298954
Maybe your friend needs to get an account and hang out in the variants forum! I am not so much looking for questions along the lines of "how about this card idea?"

Excellent advice!  Thank you, have a great day!
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #2593 on: January 14, 2016, 01:25:29 pm »
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Hi Donald!

One thing I haven't understand is why "Merchant Ship" has no +buy and "Wharf" has. Even with +buys "Wharf" would be still better card than "Merchant Ship", because + cards are better than money more often. That's why for example "Pathfinding" costs 8 and Training costs 6.

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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #2594 on: January 14, 2016, 03:46:11 pm »
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One thing I haven't understand is why "Merchant Ship" has no +buy and "Wharf" has. Even with +buys "Wharf" would be still better card than "Merchant Ship", because + cards are better than money more often. That's why for example "Pathfinding" costs 8 and Training costs 6.
Early on I did not understand things as well. Neither had +1 Buy, and we bought Merchant Ship more, so I gave Wharf +1 Buy.

Later on I understood things better. We tried Pathfinding at $7 and there it is at $8.
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #2595 on: January 16, 2016, 07:08:47 am »
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If you entered one of the big online Dominion tournaments (when such things exist) how well do you think you would place?
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« Reply #2596 on: January 16, 2016, 03:01:41 pm »
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If you entered one of the big online Dominion tournaments (when such things exist) how well do you think you would place?
It would depend on how much I'd been playing recently, and how new the cards were to everyone. Knowing the cards is a big advantage.

If I don't have that edge, man I don't know. It's no fun for me to guess high or low here and I don't have the data.
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #2597 on: January 16, 2016, 03:03:09 pm »
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I don't think this question has been asked since Adventures or Dark Ages has come out:
What, in your opinion, is the card that takes the highest skill to play?
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #2598 on: January 16, 2016, 03:45:15 pm »
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I don't think this question has been asked since Adventures or Dark Ages has come out:
What, in your opinion, is the card that takes the highest skill to play?
People were tossing around Procession as a guess in some thread, and that sounds reasonable. It's a tricky one.
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #2599 on: January 16, 2016, 05:02:01 pm »
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Has a reprint of Adventures been released yet? I'm still one of those guys who hates the flimsier cards.
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