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Dominion General Discussion / Re: The more I read the worse I get?
« on: January 04, 2018, 07:22:11 am »
Welcome!
Yes, I found the same in my early days with the game. By reading a lot and playing little I thought I'd got concepts like engine-building nailed, only for it all to unravel horribly in actual games.
There's an article on skill plateaus at http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=17655.0 which may be helpful. My advice would be to just aim at the next plateau, rather than the mountaintop. Even then you find that the path from one plateau to the next has some down-slopes in it; the first time you try to build an engine you will fail and lose to someone who stayed on the last plateau... but the tenth time you will succeed.
Good luck!
Yes, I found the same in my early days with the game. By reading a lot and playing little I thought I'd got concepts like engine-building nailed, only for it all to unravel horribly in actual games.
There's an article on skill plateaus at http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=17655.0 which may be helpful. My advice would be to just aim at the next plateau, rather than the mountaintop. Even then you find that the path from one plateau to the next has some down-slopes in it; the first time you try to build an engine you will fail and lose to someone who stayed on the last plateau... but the tenth time you will succeed.
Good luck!