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[Warfreak2]

This is the most unintuitive interface ever. I just played a Duchy/Duke game with Trader and Embargo, in which my opponent embargoed the Duchies and twice I bought Duchy, gaining a Curse, revealing Trader to gain Silver instead of Duchy. Obviously that is not what I wanted to do at all! When I'm being prompted to reveal Trader, it should tell me what card I would gain, so I'm not buying embargoed Silvers for $5. Ugh.

[florrat]

This was also unclear to me until recently but the card which you are currently gaining is the card which is highlighted on your discard pile. I asked it a few days ago here.

[Warfreak2]

Trader reacts before you gain the card, so it shouldn't be in your discard pile. I believe Goko does it wrong, actually giving you the card then putting it back when you reveal the Trader, but anyway I have never noticed anything highlighted on my discard pile.

Of course all of these problems can be answered by "well, here's the obscure, non-obvious and undocumented part of the interface which would have let you do what you want", but there are so many of them, and how am I expected to learn them except by making every error possible and then complaining about it? The interface is just very badly designed.

[SirPeebles]

It really bothers me that the card is physically moved to your discard pile before you have the option to reveal a Trader.

[eHalcyon]

Did it do it in the right order, at least? You wouldgain the Curse before you would gain the embargoed card.

[Davio]

I'm often fighting the UI, especially when playing on laptop with touchpad instead of a genuine mouse.
I gave an opponent a Curse with Swindler, accidentally double clicked and bought a Curse myself.
Unfortunately, it was not a genius move and I did not end up winning that game.

[Warfreak2]

Did it do it in the right order, at least? You wouldgain the Curse before you would gain the embargoed card.

Obviously I didn't do it in the right order, the first two times, or I would have had a Duchy instead of a Curse! I didn't even realise I had made the mistake until a few moves later I saw there were still 8 Duchies left... and later, I made the same mistake while buying an embargoed Estate.

[eHalcyon]

Did it do it in the right order, at least? You wouldgain the Curse before you would gain the embargoed card.

Obviously I didn't do it in the right order, the first two times, or I would have had a Duchy instead of a Curse! I didn't even realise I had made the mistake until a few moves later I saw there were still 8 Duchies left... and later, I made the same mistake while buying an embargoed Estate.

I meant, did Goko do it in the right order by the rules?  Just curious.  Even if they did, their UI should still prevent this sort of confusion so it's a failing on their part anyway.

[Warfreak2]

Oh! Yes, they do at least have it in the right order.

[Davio]

I hate how the "End Turn" button appears under the "End Actions" button. My jittery finger has more than once caused me to not buy anything.

[SirPeebles]

I was really frustrated by the End Turn button yesterday while playing with Alchemist and Herbalist.  I kept thinking, "no, I don't want to end my turn.  I just want to end the buy phase". It was confusing.