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@O: Puppies of large dogs are cute. I've not encountered puppies of yappy-type dogs enough times to form an opinion on them.
I'm fine with smart children, but there are a lot of obnoxious, loud, undisciplined children that I prefer to stay clear of me.
I think this is where I say: God Bless America.
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@ALL: Can we get more focused on gleaning actionable information? This is going to be incredibly unwieldy 6 weeks from now at the end of Day 3, when there could still be as many as 12 people in the game.
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@O: Puppies of large dogs are cute. I've not encountered puppies of yappy-type dogs enough times to form an opinion on them.
I'm fine with smart children, but there are a lot of obnoxious, loud, undisciplined children that I prefer to stay clear of me.
I think this is where I say: God Bless America.
You ask too many questions.
I changed my mind. We're not letting you in unless you read MI and MII, read all of my councilroom logs for games in which I purchase a Gardens, and watch twelve Zerg fast expand replays.If I've counted correctly, you've bought a Gardens in 133 games. 109 would have been my limit.
Then you can play.
All add-ons disabled, cache cleared, firefox uninstalled then reinstalled, still the same issue...Do you have the same issues if you try Chrome?
As far as Javascript goes, my Google-fu indicates that reinstalling the web browser is the only way to reinstall Javascript...
I'm going to try and older version of firefox and see if that helps. Any more suggestions?
Thanks for your help so far...
...Try to recognize the start and evaluate if you are behind or ahead, that should be able to tell you a bit of the outcome.This notion of evaluating whether I'm ahead or behind (and I don't necessarily mean score) is something that I think I'm getting better at - recognizing that I'm behind, at least from the standpoint of believing that my opponent has made better choices in the first 3 or 4 turns. My question is: what sorts of things should I be thinking about if I believe I'm behind (in those terms) early in a game?
Golds were in her hand. She draws 5 before you start your turn.PeterJohn - Grujah's post is spot on, but may not be clear due to its brevity, or perhaps if you are new to the game. What he is saying is that the 4 golds that your opponent gained to the top of her deck during her "turn" were drawn into her new hand (along with a fifth card of course) immediately after her cleanup phase, and therefore (just) before you started your turn. They were therefore not on the top of her deck when you played the Noble Brigand, and you got to see what the top two cards of her deck were at the time you played the NB.
.....and also bought a copy of Greys Sports Almanac from 2015 of some punk kid!
...Ooryl did get an unfortunate hand in turn 12, only being able to Apprentice away two Coppers. Meanwhile, I finally get my second Grand Market, trashing my Baron to do so (I could've trashed Contraband, however I still think the $3 that I get from it is far better than a Baron with only one Estate in the deck, despite the fact that I avoided playing Contraband here to prevent Oorly from blocking the Grand Market buy).
Turn 13, we each get a Grand Market, making his count 4 to my 3, but I think I'm still in good shape; my economy is much better than his at this point, and I have much more appealing targets for my Apprentices than he does (he has his Baron and his Grand Markets, which he won't be willing to trash so easily, and I have 4 Golds, a Contraband, and my Baron).
You know what's funny? I didn't even realize it was wrong when I wrote it. Dyslexics Untie!
I keep them in the original box + extra stuff in the Cornucopia box at home. http://jshgaming.com/IMAG0041.jpg I use jewelry bags from Wal-Mart to hold the cards; they are extremely cheap and fit perfectly. For travel, I found a metal case that currently holds all of them. http://jshgaming.com/IMAG0108.jpg Dark Ages is gonna be too much for it. If they were sleeved, I'm not sure what I'd do. Seems like too much hassle...JSH, I have questions:
Nice engine you guys have built there.+1 to you for +1-ing me for +1-ing you.That looks amazing...
Oh, and......+1 for the Lord of the Rings reference.Also, wondering if this Amazon page is legit: http://www.amazon.com/Rio-Grande-Games-Dominion-Cards/dp/B007MKLX84/ref=sr_1_2?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1337973643&sr=1-2Yeah, not paying $12 in shipping. I'll wait for it to show in in FLGS or regular Amazon.
Did not even notice that. Tricksy little hobbitses, they are.
+1 for you for +1-ing me! But seriously, I say we Scour whatever Shire "Funagain Games" came from for that ridiculous shipping.
Well,At the risk of sounding like the Grammar Nazi, the "About" section of his webpage is riddled with poor English and spelling errors. This may say nothing about his programming skills but it does suggest an inattention to detail, and/or a failure to involve others to mitigate his weaknesses. I have to chuckle at the irony when a designer's own web page is less than inspiring.
http://andrewprasetyojo.heroku.com/
You could open IW/Scheme, use IW to gain lots of maps and scheme to play the IW as much as possible. By not buying non cantrip cards, you'd keep your effective deck size small and quickly gain a large TM density mitigating the luck factor of the card. Then use your newly gained golds to grab those provinces, picking up silver with the IW once you're done with going for maps.
I COULD do that... but not doing that did get my 4 Provinces in 13 Turns. Do you think your IW/Scheme/TM plan could really do that well? I obviously got great shuffle luck, but let's say it had taken me 15 Turns to get those 4 Provinces. Worth it?
My first suggestion was just off the top of my head. I went and did a little solitaire and well, it's kinda hard to know how well it needs to work. I found that with the IW/Scheme opening, you often get $2 for an embargo. Which would obviously be played on the gold pile if the opponent is not going for maps thus denying them that card. So with these embargoes, a benchmark is kinda hard to set. So it really is hard to compare this to your strategy. Could you have gotten your provinces when you did if the gold pile was embargoed say around turn 7 or 8ish?
However, in the solitaire games, it did suffer from the luck of the draw. Sometimes I would have 4 maps in my deck after the second reshuffle, sometimes only 2. Sometimes they hit, sometimes they wouldn't. So this strategy is very subject to luck of the draw, but it also has some ability to hinder the opponents. It probably isn't the optimal strategy, but it has the potential to be great.
So to wrap up, here's a good ole chemistry analogy. Treasure map games are like Mössbauer spectroscopy. When they're good, they're really really good. However they are only really really good in certain games.
*For those interested, Mössbauer spectroscopy requires the source to emit gamma rays. It is therefore limited to certain isotopes of certain elements and thus can only be used in limited cases. But when it is used, the spectrum it provides has an extremely high sensitivity.
