Better interface on isotropic.Must ... not ... abuse ... banning privileges!
I really liked one on german page, it made games somewhat faster and more enjoyable.
Nice. Love the idea of a reaction card that trashes the attack. It should probably self trash or give the opponent some type of bonus as well - otherwise, it's hard to imagine attacks being viable at all if it is on the board.Donald X. has repeatedly stated that he will never create a Reaction like this, and I think he's right in feeling this way.
I think it splits the players into two groups, "players who have just lost a game" and "other players", and whenever a member of one group plays a member of the other, the player who just lost a game goes first.Yeah. More generally, when the game starts, everyone who has just lost a game goes before everyone who has not. This means that if you just won, you can't log out and log back in to try to go first.
Right and sometimes it shows peddlers, sometimes its provinces, sometimes its grandmarkets.. it seems random. I wanted to know if there was anywhere you could view the different cards you have bought all of.Imagine you just have a pile of PileDriver badges. Every so often, you add your most recent badge to the top. You can only look at the top one, but it's not a random badge, it's your most recent one.
The first player loses a half point for having more turns than player two.
edit: i meant the piledriver badge and how it randomly shows a card you bought all of. but whatever its really not a big dealPile-driver is an achievement you get for buying all copies of any card in a game. Under your "badge", you'll see how many times you earned it (i.e., how many games you played where you bought every copy of a card). Clicking it takes you to your most recent game in which you did that.
This is one of those things that depends on how your deck is constructed. If you anticipate trashing heavily and having lots of Labs, then you'll be drawing your whole deck every turn and so you can't afford to have more than one terminal. If it's going to be a long, drawn-out game, without much trashing, where you can't draw through your deck effectively, then you can load up on terminals because your deck is going to be so fat it's incredibly unlikely you'll draw them together.Particularly surprising for me were: 1) only needing 1 of a non-terminal card except in rare circumstances, 2) trashing is a lot more important than I thought, 3) thinking in terms of average treasure value.
In many cases you can get more than 1 non-terminal actions. When the game progresses you can get a second, third etc. action, because you have more other cards in your deck which wont collide with your action cards.
I want to know what theory's would be if he wasn't Admin.Administrator is actually a card from the next expansion:
[Masquerade] absolutely deserved Steward's spot on the Best $3 Cards list.I do want to update all the card rankings, partially because Cornucopia has necessitated an update to many of them, and partially because I have gotten better and realized that certain cards are a lot better than I thought (ahem, Masquerade!), or vice versa.
How did you order them ? I'm pretty sure Pawn is generally better than Herbalist and Pearl Diver...A highly scientific study of how cool the names sound.
Tied costs = the same situation you had before.I came across an interesting alternative rule designed to help balance the first player advantage. I haven't tried it myself, but I've always been intrigued:
Instead of actually playing the first two hands, allow every player the opportunity to choose the two cards (or one card) they would like to buy. Neither card may cost more than $5, and both cards combined cannot cost more than $7. Shuffle them into your deck. Then, the player who spent the least gets to go first.
I see a lot of benefits to this: a) It speeds up the opening round by skipping the initial shuffle of the deck, b) Removes the luck factor that benefits anyone with a 5/2 split with the right tableau, and c) Gives the first turn advantage to the player whose deck should be mildly weaker than everyone else's.
And what if the costs are the same? Also, in which order are the cards taken? I'd happily sit there and wait for all of my opponents to take 2 cards so I know what strategy they are playing before making a decision about how to play my game. Maybe I'd even open militia/nothing on some boards simply to play first with a militia in my deck. Doesn't really fix the first player advantage, does it?
