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Dominion League / Re: Season 18 - Results
« on: November 15, 2016, 06:50:45 am »
Division D3 - Gloures def. Cascadestyelr 4-2

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Dominion and Intrigue second editions
« on: October 11, 2016, 09:02:59 am »
People seem down on Mill.

I don't get it. Surely it's the ultimate Alt-VP rush card. Gardens or Silk Road rushes are the ultimate time where "discard 2 cards for +2 coin" is a huge benefit, and Mill is a cantrip victory point, which is exactly what you want to be rushing in those sort of situations. I see Mill as maybe the elite Alt-VP rush card. Combining it with Silk Road in a rush would just be immense.

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Dominion League / Re: Season 18 - Signups
« on: October 11, 2016, 06:37:22 am »
Hi

I would like to join the league for the first time.

Goko username: cascadestyler
Timezone: Greenwich Mean Time, Bitchazzzz
Isotropish rating: Level 20
Isotropish ranking: 1312

Thoughts on my Isotropish position: Seems fair. I'm okay. I'm somewhat sad that my Isotropish ranking is so far below my Goko leaderboard ranking, which is generally around 700-900, but I get that they're calculated on different systems and that just happens. I lost in a decider against the Isotropish rank 146 player in the WC, so maybe I'm not all too bad :)

Throw me in wherever and I'll be happy to get some games played :)

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: RIP Adventurer
« on: October 10, 2016, 08:48:05 am »
Ta - I see how that's easier and exactly the same apart from with Stash. I wonder what you're supposed to do with Stash now.

Wait - there are new shuffle rules?? What?!?!

Yes and no. There are new rules on how to shuffle, but they're functionally identical to the old rules, just a little easier to apply in practice. Barring one or two minor edge cases at least (Stash, but that's getting a rewording/errata for 1st edition IIRC)

In short: Instead of shuffling when you have no cards in deck and need to interact with the top of your deck, you now shuffle when something tells you to go further into your deck than you can, by shuffling your discard pile and placing it under your deck. So e.g. if you play Smithy with 2 cards in deck, instead of drawing 2, shuffling, forgetting how many you drew, then drawing one more, you shuffle your discard pile, put it under the 2 cards in your deck, then draw 3 cards. Same end result but easier to track.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Dominion and Intrigue second editions
« on: October 10, 2016, 08:36:52 am »
As the 2nd editions get out and about, it's going to be harder and harder to get copies of the 12 removed cards. I know what I'd be like if I'd just found dominion right now, I'd start with the new editions, but, over time, I'd want to play with those 12 cards. Maybe they aren't that good, but I'd feel I'd want to decide that for myself.

So, I was wondering if there are any plans afoot to put out a "The lost cards" pack - just a little sort-of-expansion that gives you the 12 removed cards, for the people (like me) who like to have everything. It would be the crappiest dominion expansion ever, but hell I know I'd happily fork out a tenner for it if I had the 2nd editions. Variety is the spice of life, and some of those removed cards (woodcutter and chancellor) have featured importantly in some very fun games I've played. I know that the reason they're gone is sound - they aren't interesting very often, generally they're pretty much pointless on the board they're on - but in certain cases they can still be fun and important, so I'd want them involved in my randomisation so they could pop up every now and then.

I have very fond memories of winning a game with a treasureless engine of Library/Festival/Chancellor - I wouldn't want that oppurtunity denied to anyone :p
There are no such plans, and I hope there never are.

Here's how things look from my perspective: there are also no plans to publish all of the outtakes that weren't good enough. An endless parade of unpublished cards. I have plenty of fond memories there too.

I suppose that's fair. Why publish those 12 and not the ones that got mentioned in that ludicrously long Prosperity Secret History, or any of the millions of cards in that Outtakes thread. You have to at some point draw a line and say "this is Dominion" and "this isn't Dominion". People can add in whatever cards they like to their own games - you aren't stopping anyone from using Woodcutter anymore than you're stopping someone using a City that starts at L3 and costs 2. It's just not "Dominion".

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: RIP Adventurer
« on: October 05, 2016, 08:05:44 am »
Wait - there are new shuffle rules?? What?!?!

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Dominion and Intrigue second editions
« on: October 05, 2016, 06:53:36 am »
As the 2nd editions get out and about, it's going to be harder and harder to get copies of the 12 removed cards. I know what I'd be like if I'd just found dominion right now, I'd start with the new editions, but, over time, I'd want to play with those 12 cards. Maybe they aren't that good, but I'd feel I'd want to decide that for myself.

So, I was wondering if there are any plans afoot to put out a "The lost cards" pack - just a little sort-of-expansion that gives you the 12 removed cards, for the people (like me) who like to have everything. It would be the crappiest dominion expansion ever, but hell I know I'd happily fork out a tenner for it if I had the 2nd editions. Variety is the spice of life, and some of those removed cards (woodcutter and chancellor) have featured importantly in some very fun games I've played. I know that the reason they're gone is sound - they aren't interesting very often, generally they're pretty much pointless on the board they're on - but in certain cases they can still be fun and important, so I'd want them involved in my randomisation so they could pop up every now and then.

I have very fond memories of winning a game with a treasureless engine of Library/Festival/Chancellor - I wouldn't want that oppurtunity denied to anyone :p

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Dominion and Intrigue second editions
« on: September 27, 2016, 05:48:47 pm »
My concern is with all the pre-made sets of 10 from later boxes that include Dominion/Intrigue. Will new copies of later boxes (and, if so, from what date) have pre-sets that work with the 2nd editions of the first two boxes? Will they include both? As someone who is gradually working through all the boxes (I currently have Dominion, Intrigue, Seaside, Prosperity, Cornucopia, and Guilds), I'm worried half my boxes will have suggested sets that work with the 1st editions of Dominion/Intrigue and half with the 2nd editions. That would frustrate me greatly.
I do not have any dates. New rulebooks will include recommended sets with the new editions and not with the old editions.

If you want the recommended sets with old cards I imagine the wiki will continue to have them. If you're worried about it you could go to the RGG site now and save the rulebook .pdfs for all the expansions.

Thanks :) The wiki has already switched to new sets of ten (though I'm not sure where they got their information from as to what they are) for all the boxes, though I suppose dominiondeck.com will keep the old ones as well. I hit upon the idea of saving the pdf rule books earlier today so will have copies in case I do get a box that then refers to cards I don't yet have. I noticed Empires reccomemded sets don't use any of the now removed cards, which I guess was deliberate.

I think I'm going to stick with my plan of getting Hinterlands next, then update to 2nd editions, then crack open guilds (I have it as I got it in a set with Cornucopia but am keeping it on lockdown) and get Dark Ages and Alchemy.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Dominion and Intrigue second editions
« on: September 27, 2016, 11:16:53 am »
My concern is with all the pre-made sets of 10 from later boxes that include Dominion/Intrigue. Will new copies of later boxes (and, if so, from what date) have pre-sets that work with the 2nd editions of the first two boxes? Will they include both? As someone who is gradually working through all the boxes (I currently have Dominion, Intrigue, Seaside, Prosperity, Cornucopia, and Guilds), I'm worried half my boxes will have suggested sets that work with the 1st editions of Dominion/Intrigue and half with the 2nd editions. That would frustrate me greatly.

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2016 DominionStrategy Championships / Re: Signups 2016 f.ds Championship
« on: September 13, 2016, 05:54:43 pm »
I'm in

Cascadestyler on goko and on here. Bit miffed when checking my isotropish ranking that I'm 1661 on there but well inside the top 1000 on goko's ranking :(

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2016 DominionStrategy Championships / Re: Rules
« on: September 13, 2016, 05:53:02 pm »
Rule 2.51 specifies that if game 7 is a tie then player 2 wins - does this imply that this rule is *not* used to resolve ties in earlier games? Because it is by default on goko and is part of the rule book.  In normal games 1-6, will equal scores but player 1 ending the game (so having taken more turns) be a tie or a win for p2?\

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