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General Discussion / Re: Eevee, which of these people are you?
« on: November 24, 2013, 02:50:28 pm »
They don't all have things on their heads. I bet they're not even all Finnish either. I want my money back.
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Other Games / Re: Any Nomic players?
« on: November 21, 2013, 02:58:18 am »I guess mao depends a lot on whether you want to focus on trolling newbs, or getting to the point where everyone knows what they're doing. To me, the latter seems a lot more fun, yet every time I've played, the focus has been on the former.
To me, the game would be acceptable if the rules were:
"The game plays clockwise. On your turn you must play one card from your hand into the central stack. You must either follow suit or value, if you cannot you must draw a card. If you break a rule you must draw a card. The first person to void their hand is declared the "winner" of the round, and can make a new rule (in secret) for future rounds."*
But instead they are:
"Let's play. If you break a rule I will penalize you. I'm not telling you what any of the rules are."
And therefore the game is designed for trolling newbies.
*I have no idea if these are the rules or not since I've never played the game and never intend to.
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Other Games / Re: Through the Ages online
« on: November 12, 2013, 01:04:29 pm »This can easily be mistaken for a smile.So are you Paul?
Take a closer look.
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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff
« on: November 01, 2013, 03:51:37 am »I wish I could find a job where I get paid to manipulate Excel tables. I love playing around with Excel formulas and tweaking the data to do amazing things.
Someday, I'd like to dissect one of those Hero Lab Excel spreadsheets that are used to make D&D characters and just marvel at how intricate the spreadsheet is.
There are plenty of analyst jobs as you describe.. Almost any job with the job title that has the word "analyst" in it requires heavy excel usage..
This. My job title has "analyst" in it and I get to mess around with spreadsheets on a monthly basis... and a weekly basis... and also whenever I have spare time and think any particular set of data is worth messing around with. So like, all the time.
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Other Games / Re: Nations
« on: October 29, 2013, 08:38:27 am »
Just been told my Nations has survived the storm and has arrived in York! My girlfriend's working late for the next couple of nights so I'm going to solo it to death. 5 o'clock can't come soon enough.
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Other Games / Re: Nations
« on: October 29, 2013, 04:26:14 am »I've not seen anyone talking about it here yet but I've been getting pretty excited for it. I'm not at Essen but a friend is going and will be buying me a copy of the game.Hope your friend was quick; apparently the English versions were sold out very early.
This post worried me slightly as I'd not heard anything else about stock levels at Essen, but this report from the designer has rased my hopes. It did sell out quick but extra stock was brought in which lasted pretty much until the end of the con. Now I just need to hear from my friend... I have a feeling he got stuck on the continent yesterday with pretty much every transport connection to the south of Britain cancelled.
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Other Games / Re: Nations
« on: October 29, 2013, 03:38:21 am »
This is the first I've heard of the TTA app. Is it going to be available on Android devices?
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Other Games / Nations
« on: October 24, 2013, 03:01:53 am »
This is one for the TTA lot. Today, being the first day of Essen, sees the release of Nations. I've not seen anyone talking about it here yet but I've been getting pretty excited for it. I'm not at Essen but a friend is going and will be buying me a copy of the game. Has anyone else got this on their radar?
I thought the designer diaries posted on BGG were really interesting, a bit like the Dominion secret histories and pre-release previews all in one (well... 40). Definitely worth a read if you want to see what the game is about.
I thought the designer diaries posted on BGG were really interesting, a bit like the Dominion secret histories and pre-release previews all in one (well... 40). Definitely worth a read if you want to see what the game is about.
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Other Games / Re: Through the Ages online
« on: October 23, 2013, 03:24:04 am »
71 already exists but /in.
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General Discussion / Re: Essen spiel
« on: October 18, 2013, 12:58:36 pm »
Nope, but I've sent €50 with a friend for my copy of Nations.
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Forum Games / Re: More Board Games
« on: October 18, 2013, 02:54:09 am »I played Hanabi tonight. It's really fun. It might be too slow for a PBF, but it would definitely be really interesting to do.
Hanabi's fun until your group's conventions are established. Then it just becomes following a script.
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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff
« on: October 07, 2013, 02:25:53 pm »
Is pasta called noodles in America or am I being really dumb here? Lasagne is made with pasta, right? Like... it's named after the pasta it's made from?
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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff
« on: October 07, 2013, 12:57:39 pm »Did you make the pasta? I have always wanted to make my own pasta.
Alas, I did not. The pasta was store-bought. I had an uncomfortable moment where I set the pasta to boil and then realized that I forgot the marinara. So, the pasta just sat there after boiling. Fortunately, I did boil it with some oil in there, so the noodles did not stick together nearly as badly, but after sitting there for about an hour, it was definitely not ideal. I still made it work, and I had more pasta than I needed, so I was able to fill in any gaps when noodles got destroyed.
You put noodles in your lasagne?
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Other Games / Re: Through the Ages online
« on: October 04, 2013, 02:06:05 pm »OK I'll have to take a closer look at the Age 2 events to see how nasty they are. I mean the worst ones are a lot worse, I'm thinking of independence declaration and one that takes a yellow dot away from the weakest player and gives it to the strongest. In any case I think if Age 2 events are coming up and you don't have a plan for military strength yet then you have bigger problems, right?
So let's say you draw a bunch of events that don't care about military (or aren't a huge deal, like bad territories or something) and you can play them. Now you know that early military isn't very important, right? So would you say it's safer in situations like these to ignore Age 1 military? Maybe if I draw nothing but tactics and aggression cards in Age 1 I should look into building up? Would you say this is closer to "sound strategy"?
I think it's pretty irrelevant how many non-strength events you play. Your opponents are still going to be playing the strength events and the fact that you keep playing events means their events are just going to get drawn quicker.
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Printing Press. Terrible? Really? I'm of the opinion that there is no such thing as enough science and Printing Press is the only way you can get more than 4 Science per turn in Age 1 without upgrading to an Age 1 government (which I'm quite sure is pretty terrible). I'd probably still do Printing Press if it didn't give me the extra point per turn.
Printing Press isn't the worst Age 1 card, but I won't pick it up unless I've missed out on all the Alchemies. 4 Science is plenty each turn in Age 1, but 2 is nowhere near enough. Don't forget there are a number of leaders, wonders, actions and events which can provide Science too.
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Other Games / Re: Through the Ages online
« on: October 03, 2013, 04:33:30 pm »Some of the Age 2 events are pretty harsh on weaker players, I agree. Seeing Age 2 events come up in the current events is one of the catalysts for making me want to start building military.
This part particularly stood out to me, because I play completely the opposite. If I'm weakest and the next event is from age 1 (and I don't have good odds of knowing it's okay), there's no way I'm seeding an event for my political action. If it's an age 2 event I'll play mine anyway. There are just so many more "the weakest player gets hurt" events in age one than there are in age two, and if you do end up getting hit in age two, the likelyhood is that you'll have a stronger economy to build back up then anyway.
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Other Games / Re: UK 7 Wonders tournament
« on: September 30, 2013, 12:48:22 pm »I figured I'd see if any of you guys wanted to turn up and take the prize that would have been mine!
my eldest son played really well and ended up winning!
I guess I should have turned up then if first prize was mine
Congrats to your son. Glad you had a good time and sorry I couldn't make it. What I remember of the beer festival was good but my memory is a bit hazy towards the end! I remember eating three hog roasts and being really happy with myself about it. We also managed to drink a beer named (or whose brewery was named) beginning with each letter of the alphabet, lucklily we were only drinking thirds but it was still an effort to get through. Also, the balloon modelling man was awesome. I spent half of the festival with a huge penis on my head.
Anyhow, I hope to see you at BM some time. I'll be around this Saturday if you are.
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Other Games / Re: Through the Ages online
« on: September 29, 2013, 08:15:51 am »
Down for me too ATM. Last I saw only Tables had joined two games, so there should still be 5 spots up for grabs. Keep hammering F5.
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Other Games / Re: Through the Ages online
« on: September 29, 2013, 06:07:48 am »
New games for all!
69, 70, 71 are up. Password: Dominion for all games. All global. 2 3p's and a 4p.
69, 70, 71 are up. Password: Dominion for all games. All global. 2 3p's and a 4p.
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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff
« on: September 18, 2013, 09:51:49 am »Add Americanisations onto an autocorrect list: For the benefit of my other UK board users
You gained my full support here.
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(except Rabid, TINAS and Jack Rudd since they're probably getting banned by the above - sorry).
And lost it here.
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Other Games / Re: Through the Ages online
« on: September 07, 2013, 04:55:57 pm »When I created my account there I used Thisisnotasmile for my "Login", assuming that would also be my display name. I supplied my first and last name because they were mandatory fields, and I figured they'd be used on emails sent to me. I had no idea it was going to use my real name as my display name until it did it. I'm guessing other people thought the same.Alright. I just never know who the people I'm playing with actually areExcept Kirian
I know, right? All these crazy people using handles here, and their real name on TTA. We need like a translation table.
But yeah, a translation table would be cool. I could live without one though.
Unless it's changed, you can change the name that is displayed. Click on "Edit Profile" at the top.
You can, but I don't have a problem with my real name being displayed. It's just not what I expected when I signed up. It's handy when I'm playing IRL friends this way, though.
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Other Games / Re: Through the Ages online
« on: September 07, 2013, 03:00:55 am »When I created my account there I used Thisisnotasmile for my "Login", assuming that would also be my display name. I supplied my first and last name because they were mandatory fields, and I figured they'd be used on emails sent to me. I had no idea it was going to use my real name as my display name until it did it. I'm guessing other people thought the same.Alright. I just never know who the people I'm playing with actually are
I know, right? All these crazy people using handles here, and their real name on TTA. We need like a translation table.
But yeah, a translation table would be cool. I could live without one though.
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Other Games / Re: Through the Ages online
« on: September 06, 2013, 03:15:24 pm »
Paul Oakley. I'm only in f.DS 63 at the moment.