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Title: Anyone played against First?
Post by: popsofctown on March 20, 2013, 09:50:56 pm
He's shooting up the leaderboard like a rocket.  I'm curious whether he is playing amongst his friends, or is conmingling with the existing playerbase.
Title: Re: Anyone played against First?
Post by: greatexpectations on March 20, 2013, 09:54:10 pm
i played him saturday once (and beat him, though that was entirely due to a horrid draw and auto-meld on his part) so he is playing with random people at least occasionally. he ended up ranked 17th on the dominion leaderboard so with some practice i can understand that quick rise.
Title: Re: Anyone played against First?
Post by: Kirian on March 20, 2013, 10:59:08 pm
First is a very good Dominion player who has also been around here quite a bit.  Not surprising if he's also doing well at Innovation.
Title: Re: Anyone played against First?
Post by: BitTorrent on March 21, 2013, 04:16:58 am
He's shooting up the leaderboard like a rocket.  I'm curious whether he is playing amongst his friends, or is conmingling with the existing playerbase.

Now he is really in first  8)

Never played with him though, just can't manage to play 35 games per day like him...
Hideyoshi said he has played against him and I think alvin did matched him too, though Hideo is good enough to beat him for that game.  :)

Soon enough I can put up that 'level 40 or bust' tag  :P :P :P

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update:

2-1 against him today, really like his style though, he is the type of player who don't bother about computing values (say not very concerned about score sums and minor mechanics, sometimes you missed 1 or 2 'best move' you can still overcome since your master plan is still on track) all the time, use dogma as utilities, stays in control and he knows how to create a way to win the game. To master all these are good enough among the level ~40s  ;)
Title: Re: Anyone played against First?
Post by: Hideyoshi on March 21, 2013, 04:31:20 am
I can just say, he is a good player ;)
Title: Re: Anyone played against First?
Post by: teasel on March 21, 2013, 08:13:21 am
played with him,can't remember how the game really wents
is there a way to check log of games you played without pushing the game log button at the end of a game?
Title: Re: Anyone played against First?
Post by: popsofctown on March 21, 2013, 09:03:24 am
Does he play echoes?
Title: Re: Anyone played against First?
Post by: ancientcampus on March 21, 2013, 02:34:27 pm
is there a way to check log of games you played without pushing the game log button at the end of a game?

In theory, yes - councilroom.com served that purpose for Dominion Isotropic, but (to my knowledge) no such system exists for Innovation Isotropic. So practically, no.
Title: Re: Anyone played against First?
Post by: rrenaud on March 21, 2013, 02:48:07 pm
Sounds like we need a CR for innovation ;P
Title: Re: Anyone played against First?
Post by: popsofctown on March 21, 2013, 02:52:41 pm
If only someone had the skillset necessary
Title: Re: Anyone played against First?
Post by: dondon151 on March 21, 2013, 03:48:16 pm
Sounds like we need a CR for innovation ;P

Is this an invitation to propose names?
Title: Re: Anyone played against First?
Post by: Awaclus on March 21, 2013, 04:02:52 pm
Sounds like we need a CR for innovation ;P

Is this an invitation to propose names?
The Internet! The Internet!
Title: Re: Anyone played against First?
Post by: rrenaud on March 21, 2013, 04:25:10 pm
Names for a CR for innovation are kind of hard, because most of the card names are insanely popular english words.
Title: Re: Anyone played against First?
Post by: popsofctown on March 21, 2013, 04:27:44 pm
Miniaturization.
Title: Re: Anyone played against First?
Post by: rrenaud on March 21, 2013, 04:38:38 pm
The domain is taken.  And I am not sure I can spell it ;(.
Title: Re: Anyone played against First?
Post by: teasel on March 21, 2013, 05:47:50 pm
Industrialization Monument?
Title: Re: Anyone played against First?
Post by: eHalcyon on March 21, 2013, 05:50:30 pm
figuresinthesand.com is free.
Title: Re: Anyone played against First?
Post by: first on March 21, 2013, 08:41:34 pm
I'm curious whether he is playing amongst his friends, or is conmingling with the existing playerbase.
My other account is 雪, but one day I couldn't find any opponent to play against, so I created this alternate account and ended up ranking higher.

really like his style though
Glad you like it :)

Does he play echoes?
Yes, and I love it.
Title: Re: Anyone played against First?
Post by: popsofctown on March 21, 2013, 08:56:13 pm
I can't tell if that's the same symbol as the player I played at echoes today..
Title: Re: Anyone played against First?
Post by: antony on March 21, 2013, 08:57:35 pm
Sounds like we need a CR for innovation ;P
I started working on a parser for Innovation games.  I actually emailed dougz some time ago to mention the fact that logs were not sufficient to get the complete game state (not including what's in the decks, of course) but didn't get a reply yet.
Title: Re: Anyone played against First?
Post by: AngelKurisu on March 25, 2013, 06:07:14 pm
How about SplayRight.com?
Title: Re: Anyone played against First?
Post by: rrenaud on March 25, 2013, 06:16:33 pm
How about SplayRight.com?

Did you hear that from theory?  It's actually what we sort of settled on about a month ago, in person.
Title: Re: Anyone played against First?
Post by: popsofctown on March 25, 2013, 06:17:53 pm
He probably just found your conversation with the power of Google.  Google knows everything.
Title: Re: Anyone played against First?
Post by: rrenaud on March 25, 2013, 06:20:35 pm
As far as I can tell, google didn't index it.  From my gmail logs..

3:55 PM
me: what should cr for innovation be called?
6 minutes
4:02 PM
Ben: Industrialization?
 me: the problem is that all common words are taken
me: so you need to basically concat words
       haha
       we were thinking splayright.com
Ben: WinBySelfService.com
Ben: PerfumeAndMath.com
 
Title: Re: Anyone played against First?
Post by: popsofctown on March 25, 2013, 06:27:44 pm
Theory's real name is Ben?
Title: Re: Anyone played against First?
Post by: Ozle on March 25, 2013, 06:30:57 pm
Theory's real name is Ben?

That must be rrenaulds real name. Theorys real name is Tarquin
Title: Re: Anyone played against First?
Post by: rrenaud on March 25, 2013, 06:32:00 pm
Heh, that's a gmail log referencing a conversation that happened in person with theory.  The gmail convo itself is not with theory.
Title: Re: Anyone played against First?
Post by: popsofctown on March 25, 2013, 06:33:45 pm
Good.  Theory does not seem like a Ben.
Title: Re: Anyone played against First?
Post by: eHalcyon on March 25, 2013, 06:46:52 pm
figuresinthesand.com is free.

Nobody likes this?  I thought it was clever.  You know, Figures.  Statistical figures. :P
Title: Re: Anyone played against First?
Post by: AngelKurisu on March 26, 2013, 10:14:08 am
How about SplayRight.com?

Did you hear that from theory?  It's actually what we sort of settled on about a month ago, in person.

Nope, great minds think alike I guess!

I was just pondering through all the different Innovation-related names we could use for a stats site, and no individual techs really jumped out (that weren't already registered). 
Title: Re: Anyone played against First?
Post by: kn1tt3r on March 26, 2013, 10:17:34 am
Good.  Theory does not seem like a Ben.

So what does he seem like? A Theodore?
Title: Re: Anyone played against First?
Post by: theory on April 09, 2013, 05:40:55 pm
Good.  Theory does not seem like a Ben.

So what does he seem like? A Theodore?

I'd like to know this too!
Title: Re: Anyone played against First?
Post by: popsofctown on April 09, 2013, 05:41:58 pm
Maybe a Richard.

Title: Re: Anyone played against First?
Post by: Tables on April 09, 2013, 06:21:07 pm
Pretty sure theory isn't that secretive about his name. Or at least I know *a* (first & surname) name that he uses online, although I guess it might be a psuedonym.
Title: Re: Anyone played against First?
Post by: popsofctown on April 09, 2013, 06:21:37 pm
He +1'ed my post, I must be close.