the other good news, which is not as good as good news that doesn't come with bad news, but not as bad as bad news that contains no other good news
I'd love to see someone do a compare-and-contrast of Jester with Rogue; they seem to have a lot in common in terms of what they actually do.
At ±3σ we can basically be sure that Tournament is better than scout, and not much else.The standard deviations listed here are the standard deviations of the votes given (at least, I assume so). The standard deviation of the mean of the votes is sqrt(n) times as small (where n is the number of votes), so on this list 11 times as small. This means that small differences are already quite significant on this list (which is not that strange with a sample size of >100).
For example, if we take "statistical significant" to mean ±3σ, then Tournament (#2) is statistical significantly rated higher by our community than Ironmonger (#5) (and also higher than all cards below Ironmonger1).
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This is because their difference in weighted average is
88.5 - 81.4 = 7.1
and the standard deviation of the difference (of the average) is2
σ = sqrt(14.9^2+18.9^2)/sqrt(121) = 2.2
So 0 is 3.2σ away from the mean, which means that Tournament is statistical significantly higher than Ironmonger.
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1 this does not follow automatically, since the standard deviations can be higher.
2 here I'm assuming that they are independent (or at least that their covariance is 0), which is not entirely correct, but close enough
Walled Village - Again I probably overrated it a few spots, but I still see all of the villages as enablers which are critical to making the engines work since a terminal draw without a village is an engine stopper.You probably aren't overrating it, I think the villages should be a lot closer to each other on this list.
I thought Catacombs and Journeyman were both considered very good terminal draw. Has estimation of them changed of late?
It would have a nice combo with Diadem too!
(Not Student loans)
Loan and Bag of Debt would not combo together I don't think...
Counting House is good at least sometimes. Harvest is just pretty much never worth getting, even though it's less bad in the situations where Counting House is bad.
Harvest as the only source of money with doubletac or scrying pool has to be more common than the times you'll need to have lots of copper...
That's backwards, though. Counting House itself can be the reason you flood your deck with Copper, because the amount of Coins it can produce is effectively unbounded. Harvest can only ever give you $4.
I feel like too often we judge cards based on how good they are in the deck we already want to build instead of how good they can be if we build a deck to accommodate them.
Counting House is good at least sometimes. Harvest is just pretty much never worth getting, even though it's less bad in the situations where Counting House is bad.
http://www.gokosalvager.com/static/logprettifier.html?/20140324/log.510d7890e4b0ac7a7a0be611.1395681145942.txt
I open Doctor/Silver with my 6/4 opening, gain 5 Provinces in 12 turns... and lose.
I've added a Salvager option to hide the launch screen ads. It'll be in the beta shortly (and in the main release after that).
Meh, on further consideration I don't actually want Salvager to do this. Feel free to retract your upvotes.
Many disagreements for this part :
- Tunnel is points, and again victory cards are ranked way too low. Tunnel is without a doubt a top 5 card.
- Storeroom is so underrated. It's a key piece for all those engines with little to heavy draw. I think in general cellar and secret chamber are underrated (though I agree SC one of the worst $2), SC can be sometimes a nice source of money (especially powerful when you can draw again what you discarded). Storeroom is just a better secret chamber, the +buy helps a lot and the cellar effect adds flexibility.
I would rank all those higher than Village, Urchin, Scheme and Market Square. Especially market square. Market square is just not that good.
About the first part, as always I think Fortune teller is underrated.
Shanty Town: It's worth mentioning that the Lab effect works a lot of the time in the early game, allowing you to get a village early without giving up much economy.
Isotropish parameters in title are problematic because of people without extension. Autokick for certain level is brutal when no-extension users don't know their level.The next release of Goko Salvager will probably entirely replace the Goko ratings with Isotropish ratings.Looking forward to this, does this mean that it also uses the Isotropish level for the title parameters/automatch?
Sorry for making unilateral announcements, yed. Now that the full-time WS connection is working, I was planning to implement the option to show and sort by Isotropish ratings instead of Goko's pro ratings. Also to replace their leaderboard display.
I'd personally value autokick by Isotropish level, but I share your concern as well.
They printed fixed versions and if you buy one now I expect that's what you'll get; I got correct English copies. The problems delayed the general release of the English version, except at a few cons and I think in Europe, where people got wrong ones.
I got the Ticket to Ride ap the other day. I found myself wishing online Dominion could be like that.
Wow. I'm completely flummoxed by this. I can imagine a classy restaurant having fries on their kids menu, but that sort of place either wouldn't allow kids (in America) or wouldn't have a separate kids menu (as I understand it, that's most of the rest of the world.) The very idea of paying $20+ for French fries is absolutely mind-boggling. $4 in the US maximum. Maybe $6 if you add cheese and chili--and I would imagine something similar in Canada for poutine.
You can bake French fries (chips), but what you end up with isn't so much a French fry as it is a sliced baked potato. To get that crisp outside your really need direct contact with something hot and above 200 °C... oil just happens to provide that on all sides at once. Baking just doesn't cut it for that...
