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Dominion General Discussion / Re: My new Dominion YouTubing Series

« on: December 30, 2018, 11:32:16 pm »

I'd say there were 3 main areas you went wrong in that game:

1) You definitely underestimated Lookout. With that much junking coming in to your deck you definitely wanted more than one of them. Also with fortress on the board, using lookout more than usual is OK because if a fortress and some other engine pieces come up, you can freely trash the fortress and it goes into your hand, so the risk is lessened. Also also if you do get the Royal Blacksmith engine going, you can draw all of your cards and end with a load of coppers as the only cards in your deck, that your lookouts can then trash with no risk.
2) You got too distracted by Flag Bearer and Soothsayer. The extra card from the flag didn't matter because your deck was filled with junk so it made little difference. On this board you either wanted to go all in on Soothsayer or build the engine, and you sort of went half on both and as such had a deck that didn't really do anything. Note that in 4 player, one person can easily skip cursing and it's not so bad as in 2 player. In 2-player if one person skips junking they lose the curse split 10 - 0, but in 4 player, they tend to lose 7 - 7 - 7 - 10 or there abouts, which is nowhere nearly as bad.
3) You needed to focus more on Engineer to get the engine components you needed. You needed way more fortresses, patrons and lookouts in your deck so that the engine could be built in time, and the only realistic way of getting enough of these was with engineer. Lookout - Engineer would have been a good opener.

You are right. I shall reference you in the next analysis.
Episode 12 will be live shortly.

I had a long recording session I didn't expect, so I didn't have time to do an analysis or a funny edit. Sorry. That session was a particularly epic one, so absolutely worth a mediocre episode. Really, you guys are gonna love what I just recorded.
Feedback?

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: My new Dominion YouTubing Series

« on: December 29, 2018, 09:49:18 pm »

Episode 11 is live! We are back!

Does it look blurry to you guys?

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: My new Dominion YouTubing Series

« on: December 25, 2018, 10:38:19 pm »

You can't see the amount of cards left in the Victory piles. They're off the screen

Funny. I can see them. Could I have a screenshot?

Episode 10 is live!

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: My new Dominion YouTubing Series

« on: December 24, 2018, 08:05:42 pm »

At 17:58 you played WM and could have ordered Count on top, then play BC to draw it. Then play Count gain Copper, gain Duchy, buy Province.

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EDIT: Episode 9 is live!

Any comments?

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Variants and Fan Cards / Re: Really bad card ideas

« on: December 24, 2018, 05:06:35 pm »

House
Victory
Cost: $1
1/2 VP

When you use the card Expand to trash this, you must choose to gain an Estate.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: My new Dominion YouTubing Series

« on: December 24, 2018, 10:21:03 am »

Thanks for the videos!

I don't like the Wandering Minstrel opening, because it's not cycling to anything except the necropolis - thus it doesn't do much to help early economy. If you open double silver then you can still pick up the Minstrel turn 3 but you have a higher shot at getting the Count turn 4. I think missing that early $5 for Count was why you had trouble using it to trash - Count struggles once there are too many good cards in your deck.

Thanks for the tip! I hate buying silver on a 4 coin turn. It's a flaw of mine.

You could have won if you topdecked the Count to gain a Duchy and buy a Province.

I glanced through the video, and I can't seem to find a time where I could have used count to gain a duchy and could still have afforded a province. Could you give me a timestamp? Thanks for the criticism.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: My new Dominion YouTubing Series

« on: December 23, 2018, 10:05:48 pm »

At 11:12, you said get a Border Village with Embassy. Isn't it Embassy with Border Village? or did you just mean that you're getting them at the same time.

Yes, I meant I was getting them at the same time. While the Embassy was coming with the Border Village, I clicked Border Village first, so I said it first.

Sorry for being critical. I haven't played with Hinterlands yet so it confused me.

Please be as critical as you want. I want to become a better youtuber, and criticism is necessary to do that.
Episode 8 is live!

Criticism?

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: My new Dominion YouTubing Series

« on: December 23, 2018, 09:02:51 am »

At 11:12, you said get a Border Village with Embassy. Isn't it Embassy with Border Village? or did you just mean that you're getting them at the same time.

Yes, I meant I was getting them at the same time. While the Embassy was coming with the Border Village, I clicked Border Village first, so I said it first.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: My new Dominion YouTubing Series

« on: December 22, 2018, 11:01:03 pm »

Episode 7 is live!

Thoughts?

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Card and Token quality

« on: December 22, 2018, 10:48:08 pm »

I absolutely noticed the quality drop from prosperity tokens to empires tokens. I would literally pay money for more prosperity tokens in 2 VP token style, and for more of them in general. Prosperity's felt so good to hold, but the empires just felt cheap.

I guess I haven’t noticed a decrease in quality there. The design is different, but I don’t mind. And I LOVE that the Empires 1-VP and 5-VP tokens are different enough sizes to tell apart at a glance now. That wasn’t the case in Prosperity.

Wanna trade your prosperity for my empires tokens?

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Card and Token quality

« on: December 22, 2018, 08:20:06 pm »

I absolutely noticed the quality drop from prosperity tokens to empires tokens. I would literally pay money for more prosperity tokens in 2 VP token style, and for more of them in general. Prosperity's felt so good to hold, but the empires just felt cheap.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Patron and "reveal"

« on: December 21, 2018, 09:20:03 pm »

The difference between the top card of your deck always being revealed and "reveal" in the sense of something being explicitly written on a card is extremely counterintuitive.

You've lost me.

You might want to read the first post of this thread.
There is "reveal" as a keyword, what Patron's wording hints at.
There is other stuff revealed, like the top card of your discard pile.

Even though Patron clearly refers to the former you can nonetheless confuse it with the latter. If I ever play with the card I am 100% certain that even the hardcore gamers at the table will ask me what this supposed to mean, whether stuff in the discard pile or the trash is revealed and so on.

The average family gamer is in great shape with Patron. The Dominion nerds create questions that family gamers never think of. Family gamers are not checking the rulebook looking for ways to be confused.

A pretty weird accusation given that folks like me did not know what reveal means precisely, what is actually considered to be revealed, before Patron came along. So I re-read the rules not to become even more confused about something which I did not get but to realize that reveal is actually a keyword (that has been hitherto been mostly irrelevant). But I read over that part which Jeebus pointed out here and which reveals, pardon the pun, the difference between "reveal" and reveal.

I understand that you think that your baby is perfect but I think that something like this is a fairly natural and inevitable issue that arises when you do many expansions and use a keyword for a new card which has so far never been rigorously used (again, the difference between "reveal" and reveal).
Also, just because your playtesting group got the card immediately does not imply that other playing groups will do so as well. There is always groupthink and group bias and Jeebus pointed out that a playtester was actually wrong about Patron supposedly not requiring the using the word "reveal" phrase.

My 7 year old brother instantly understood patron. As did I, and every other dominion player I know. This baby is perfect!

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: My new Dominion YouTubing Series

« on: December 21, 2018, 08:36:37 pm »

Episode 6 is live!

Feedback?

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: My new Dominion YouTubing Series

« on: December 20, 2018, 08:35:27 pm »

Episode 5 just dropped!

Feedback? Do you guys think I dropped to much energy in speaking slower?

EDIT2. Deleted outdated question

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: My new Dominion YouTubing Series

« on: December 20, 2018, 12:35:07 pm »

I suscribed

Thanks!

EDIT: I recently received a message from "Jake". He says he is a fellow dominion tuber and would like to skype/play me for one of my videos. However, I got it as a do not reply email. How would I go about responding?

Yo, sup. That's me. Weird about the do-not-reply thing, I might have checked a box or something.

Great! So do we PM to arrange a game or something? I don't really know the etiquette regarding youtubers communications. I would absolutely love to play you in a game. Multiple, if it can be arranged.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: My new Dominion YouTubing Series

« on: December 19, 2018, 08:41:29 pm »

Episode 4 is live!

Feedback?

EDIT: I recently received a message from "Jake". He says he is a fellow dominion tuber and would like to skype/play me for one of my videos. However, I got it as a do not reply email. How would I go about responding?

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: My new Dominion YouTubing Series

« on: December 19, 2018, 06:11:30 am »

First match I watched, so my first feedback on your gameplay. I am not the best player either, but here are my 5cents.
Why are you gaining a million Gold when you are only buying 1 Province a turn? You said there is no way to increase your handsize, but there is Moat. I think the goal is to gain only as much Gold as you need and go through your whole deck each turn and then double/triple Provincing. This means, you only want 1 Tunnel and Courtier is totally pointless here. Here is an example where I go for triple Province for reference: #21448693 Depending on what your opponent does you could then also add a Potion and buy an additional Vineyard each turn.
And when you bought Worker's Village for $11 you totally didn't want a free Forum with it? You had no way to increase your handsize so 5 Golds is the max, so you had no way for a double Province, even though you were hoping for it. Also you definitely should have gotten the Duchy, with so much sifting and so many Golds, why do you think your deck would suffer from it?

I like your video though as a whole, keep em coming.

Yes, not my best work. I was rushed (because I only had 2 hours to get the video live), saw my foe buying up the tunnels and panicked. If you wanna see me better, see episode 2. I do lots of funny edits and actually thinking. Thanks for the advice regardless.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: My new Dominion YouTubing Series

« on: December 18, 2018, 09:56:56 pm »

Episode 3 is live!

I had so many problems trying to make this episode. I ran out of time and couldn't do any funny intros, analysis, or cuts. Sorry. Feel free to skip this one. Or just cut to the end for the funny realization.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: My new Dominion YouTubing Series

« on: December 18, 2018, 06:28:14 am »

Thanks for the feedback!
I completely agree that laughing at my foe is a risk. However, when I see overconfident YouTubers fail, I find it hilarious. Regardless, I will cut back on it. Speed is difficult to cut back on in such a fast paced game as Dominion, but i'll do my darndest to slow down. Any tips on how to get all my points across while staying within the time of the game? I also find kingdom analysis hard to do while still showing my foe that i'm not afk. If I sit there for 5 minutes at the start reasoning, my foe may resign or try to have me kicked. And many people don't have chat activated, so saying "i'm thinking" wouldn't even change anything. Thus, I do all my thinking on the fly. Any tips on ways to analyze the kingdom quickly? Thanks again for the feedback.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: My new Dominion YouTubing Series

« on: December 17, 2018, 10:21:23 pm »

Episode 2 is live! Here it is!

This one took alot out of me. Most of today, in fact. I hope you guys find the cuts funny.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: My new Dominion YouTubing Series

« on: December 17, 2018, 12:36:23 pm »

You guys are literally the best. I should be available tonight for a few recorded games. Unfortunately, I already used the only time my house is silent (when everybody is gone) today to record. Whatever evenings work for you guys work for me. I decided to do 2 games per episode: 1 base with a random person, and 1 expansion one. I'll stop doing the base and just do 2 games per episode after about 10 or so episodes. Best of both worlds! Experts can skip base, noobs can skip expansions! 1 episode per expansion is brilliant! I think I will do that starting with episode 3. In addition to the base game segment for noobs.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: My new Dominion YouTubing Series

« on: December 17, 2018, 11:08:05 am »

Thank you all so much for the advice! Would it be OK if I mentioned you guys in my next video, and amend my gold statement?
Imho, if noob dominion players see this channel for the first time, they might be bamboozled if episode 2 starts them off with night cards, potion cards, villa, black market, and coin tokens. I love the new expansions, I just want to have a solid "base" for newbies to watch. Thoughts?

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Dominion General Discussion / My new Dominion YouTubing Series

« on: December 17, 2018, 09:20:14 am »

Hello! I am attempting to start a Dominion YouTubing series, where I play dominion games and commentate on them. I am good at dominion in my opinion (I only lost because I hadn't played base in so long I forgot about gardens), and would absolutely love any tips or feedback I can get.



The next video will be up tonight. Thanks for the feedback, if you give any!

EDIT: This thread died, so I will have every episode conveniently located in this first post:

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Dominion: Renaissance Previews / Re: Renaissance Previews #1: Mountain Village, Priest, Seer, Scholar, Experiment

« on: September 28, 2018, 03:26:39 pm »

Like if the first thing you thought when you saw Scholar was "ITS PROFESSOR SYCAMORE!"

Nope, I thought, it was Professor Oak. But you are more precise, because Oak is a normal Trainer card (nowadays called ltem card) and thus non-terminal, where Sycamore and Juniper are Supporter cards, which are comparable to terminal actions in the Dominion world.

Finally, someone on the internet that actually recognized all the nuance and complexities of what I posted! And from another card game no less!

More importantly, would experiment plus a few lurkers make them basically labs? Seeing as lurker "gains" from the trash whenever you get one from the trash you get another from the supply, offsetting the card it took you to gain it again.

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Dominion: Renaissance Previews / Re: Renaissance Previews #1: Mountain Village, Priest, Seer, Scholar, Experiment

« on: September 27, 2018, 02:28:03 pm »

Like if the first thing you thought when you saw Scholar was "ITS PROFESSOR SYCAMORE!"