From time to time, I play with friends while I'm at work. There's been more than one occasion where I tab back to take a 'trivial' turn, like buy a province with an all-money hand, quickly before tabbing out again in order to keep them from having to wait. I used to be able to go back a couple turns, but now I can't. It's enough of an edge case that it's not really a problem for me, but it is the main reason I miss about the old way (or more specifically, wish there was a toggle).I agree, but for different reasons than Personman. I play while doing other things - like folding laundry, or emptying the dishwasher, etc... so it's very nice to be able to play without having to pay attention to everything my opponent does. If it was important, I can quickly ctrl-F and go find it.Your opponent's most recent turn is still visible.
Whenever you come out the better after an intense competition for Actions, you should look to see if you can end it on piles rather than VPs (especially if you are first player). Sometimes you can’t, because of a lack of +Buy, but more often than not there’s a way to safely end the game on piles rather than going for a more risky VP exhaustion. You want to look for non-terminals that essentially guarantee your deck can’t stall out while ending the game.http://dominionstrategy.com/2011/05/30/annotated-game-8/
People tend to overestimate their opponents' good luck and their own bad luck, and underestimate their opponents' bad luck and their own good luck.Just yesterday, I had the following happen in a Colony game with KC and Mountebank.
It's very obvious when you draw two clashing terminals, but it's not as obvious when it happens to your opponent, since you only see him play one of them.
Clearly Isotropic should just automatically prompt you once you are sufficiently far behind.This made me spit out my water.
"You look like you're really crapping the bed in this game. You should probably just resign."
Golem + Tactician + any card drawer = ULTIMATE AWESOMEHere's a game where I managed to force a draw just before getting smashed by my opponent's double-tactician 15-card hand, courtesy of golem-tactician-minion.
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Well, sometimes the game will last longer, even if I could end it earlier. Just because I am trying to get this game safely won and not getting wrecked by extreme lucky draws from my opponents.I'm curious exactly what you mean here. Are you just referring to buying duchies until your opponent doesn't answer (and breaks the PPR)? I think this is one the weakest aspects of my game; closing in a 'safely' in mirrors. Especially when my deck is something that's not resistant to bloat (duchies).
Another fun University game. My opponent made the perfect pile-emptying move...Universities w/ Vineyards is a lot of fun. One of the rare board elements that will make me consider going multiple potions.
...or so he thought.
Generally if I'm going to quit because I'm getting my ass handed to me so much its not worth it, I'll say something along the lines of "You've got this one, mind if I resign?" That seems like the polite thing to do to me.Has anyone asked you to stay? Sometimes I'd like to see where my deck goes (but I'd never ask someone to stay in a game where they're obviously not having fun). For that reason, I tend to stay and play out games even when it's clear I'm going to lose.
