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[Jakelin]

Ever since the servers were down the other day, the game is not playing right for me.  When playing solo versus the computer, as soon as the Province (6 point) pile is empty the game ends.  This is regardless of the fact that no other piles are empty.  It totally ruins the game.  Has anyone else noticed this?

[rrenaud]

Those are the rules of the game.  An empty province pile ends the game.

[Ozle]

How did it do it before?!

Unless he means it ends immediately instead of the end of the turn, in which case I don't understand why the reference to no other piles

[Insomniac]

Trololololol.

Thats what I expect anyways as its a first post, I could be wrong.

[pinkymadigan]

Ever since the servers were down the other day, the game is not playing right for me.  When playing solo versus the computer, as soon as the Province (6 point) pile is empty the game ends.  This is regardless of the fact that no other piles are empty.  It totally ruins the game.  Has anyone else noticed this?

I've had this bug report in since day 1 man...

[jonts26]

Possibly related but, but I just played a game and it ended after only the Colony pile was depleted. No other piles were gone. Goko really needs to get on these bugs.

[werothegreat]

I thought this was referring to Alchemy not working.  Oh well.

[Kuildeous]

I was playing a nice game during a severe thunderstorm, and the screen just went black! What the hell, Goko?

Only one pile was empty.




Tongue, of course, in cheek, and I hope not to make light of a gripe made seriously. It does look a bit like you're having us on.

[michaeljb]

I was playing Workshop/Gardens against a bot, I got all of the Workshops, Gardens, and when I gained the last Estate the game was just over. The bot only had 4 of the Provinces! These bugs are unacceptable.

[Watno]

I had more than half of the available points, which according to WW is the 4th end condition. But the game didn't end. Seems they can't get anything right.

[Jakelin]

I apologize if I have this rule wrong.  I come from playing the physical card game Dominion although I have only played it a handful of times.  That is what led me to find the online version.  My understanding was that they game ends when any three card piles are depleted.  I thought this covered the victory cards as well as the action cards.  So you guys are saying if any ONE pile of victory cards is depleted the game ends?  If this is the case we have been playing the card game wrong. 

[pinkymadigan]

I apologize if I have this rule wrong.  I come from playing the physical card game Dominion although I have only played it a handful of times.  That is what led me to find the online version.  My understanding was that they game ends when any three card piles are depleted.  I thought this covered the victory cards as well as the action cards.  So you guys are saying if any ONE pile of victory cards is depleted the game ends?  If this is the case we have been playing the card game wrong.

Not quite right. If Provinces (specifically) or any three piles are empty, the game ends at the end of the turn.

[Jakelin]

Thanks pinkymadigan!  I just ran to google to double check after my last post.  It appears my friends and I missed that rule when we played.  Well it certainly makes things different that way!  Sorry for the error.  No troll here, apparently just someone who can't read!

[theory]

Don't worry, lots of people do make this mistake   You are not the first!

I apologize if I have this rule wrong.  I come from playing the physical card game Dominion although I have only played it a handful of times.  That is what led me to find the online version.  My understanding was that they game ends when any three card piles are depleted.  I thought this covered the victory cards as well as the action cards.  So you guys are saying if any ONE pile of victory cards is depleted the game ends?  If this is the case we have been playing the card game wrong.

Not quite right. If Provinces (specifically) or any three piles are empty, the game ends at the end of the turn.

And if you're playing with Colonies, if that empties, the game ends at the end of the turn.

More generally, game end happens when any of the following happens:

* Out of Colonies OR
* Out of Provinces OR
* Out of any 3 piles (including Curse, Action, Victory, Treasure piles)

[jonts26]

* Out of any 3 piles (including Curse, Action, Victory, Treasure piles)

And just to be extra sure, it has to be three supply piles. There are a handful of non-supply piles that won't end the game.

Prizes (from cornucopia)
Black Market deck (from the promo card Black Market, not the black market itself, but the deck it creates.)
Madman, Spoils, Mercenary (from Dark Ages)

But every other pile does count.

[werothegreat]

And the game certainly keeps going if the Shelters pile empties.

[ftl]

There is no shelter pile.

[werothegreat]

[Kuildeous]

More generally, game end happens when any of the following happens:

* Out of Colonies OR
* Out of Provinces OR
* Out of any 3 piles (including Curse, Action, Victory, Treasure piles)

And to add more fuel, the game ends on three piles in games with four or fewer players. If you play with five or six players, then the game ends after four piles (though the number of Provinces increases to offset the extra players; not sure about Colony though).

I offer my apology for assuming you were playing a joke on us. It's not like I can throw stones when it comes to misreading rules. I played Settlers of Catan for a while where I didn't realize that settlements had to be at least 2 spaces away from another settlement. That realization changed the game for us.

[michaeljb]

The Colony pile does not increase beyond four players:

Use 8 Colonies for a 2-player game, or 12 Colonies for a game with 3 or more players.

Presumably that was easier than including 3 more Colonies and referencing the Intrigue rulebook.

And even though I'm unlikely to use this IRL, it's nice that Ruins from Dark Ages do scale up to 6 players.