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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Sporcle Quizzes: Name the Kingdom Cards and Events
« on: July 20, 2022, 04:57:24 pm »
Whoops, forgot to do Day 3 of Hinterlands previews. The quiz is now updated with all of Hinterlands 2E.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: An Opinion on the 3 New Revisions (Seaside, Prosperity, Hinterlands)
« on: July 17, 2022, 12:09:32 am »And yes, at the table even our group of 4 experienced players miss things. We're shuffling our deck and getting a new hand or looking at our hand trying to figure out how we want to play it or even miss leaving duration cards out when we clean up because there are lots of cards out there, had to figure out how much $ you had and what to buy, and when you clean up, you rake the cards in forgetting about duration cards or a supplies until the next turn when you wonder if you had duration cards you forgot to leave out. It happens.
I recommend playing your Duration cards sideways, then turning them upright when they've fully resolved. That way it's very easy to remember to just clean up the cards that aren't sideways.
I've even started playing my Treasuries, Schemes, and Travellers sideways so that I remember they still have something left to do.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Interview with Donald X.
« on: July 01, 2022, 03:22:12 pm »
Personally I enjoy being able to buy Ghost Town/Den of Sin/Night Watchman and then use Exorcist on it immediately. And playing these cards doesn't seem simpler or more complex than gaining them to hand.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: 2022 Additional Errata
« on: June 28, 2022, 07:52:51 pm »*idly wonders what the other mysterious problem was*
I also don’t remember. I’m just taking his word for it.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: 2022 Additional Errata
« on: June 28, 2022, 02:36:55 pm »It has always sounded like you do in fact object to me fixing the problem of Bonfire trashing arbitrary cards from play. It seems to me that you think of the Duration thing as a problem, but that's it; so, why not just non-Duration? But there was another problem and I fixed that one too.I continue to be happy to have fixed this broken card, despite your objections.
Well that's unfair and misleading. I never objected to it being fixed. Just to it being restricted to Coppers.
Well I guess I forgot there was another problem, and that's on me. Sorry about that.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: 2022 Additional Errata
« on: June 28, 2022, 01:11:14 pm »I continue to be happy to have fixed this broken card, despite your objections.
Well that's unfair and misleading. I never objected to it being fixed. Just to it being restricted to Coppers.
Changing Bonfire to non-Duration is a clear fix. What else needs to be done to avoid potentially problematic rules interactions? A per turn limit to avoid loops?
It’s my understanding that “non-Duration” would have been a sufficient fix.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: 2022 Additional Errata
« on: June 28, 2022, 12:26:31 pm »I continue to be happy to have fixed this broken card, despite your objections.
Well that's unfair and misleading. I never objected to it being fixed. Just to it being restricted to Coppers.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: 2022 Additional Errata
« on: June 27, 2022, 03:01:36 pm »It always was weird that Storyteller gave 1 coin that would nearly always be spent by it on drawing; people remarked on this when it was first released.
Yeah, although this new version has its own awkwardness.
Bonfire feels misnamed now that it only burns...Coppers? More of a "Smelt" event or something, sad to lose the flexibility.
I strongly agree on both counts. The flavor is pretty bad now and it's sad to lose the interactions.
Exploration was a weak project that you could sometimes do interesting non-buy gains with, but no longer. Even more ignorable now generally.
Exploration is often worth buying and just getting the bonus once at that time, for what that's worth.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: 2022 Additional Errata
« on: June 27, 2022, 02:10:36 pm »It seems very weird that Highway isn't on the list. Weird enough to make me think that it's about to be cut.
No Hinterlands errata is on this list. It's going to be on the last day of Hinterlands previews.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: 2022 Additional Errata
« on: June 27, 2022, 01:16:59 pm »No longer will I be able to ask people the question "In what scenario can one spend the +$1 from Storyteller?" Admittedly not the greatest loss in the world.
Every time? If nothing else, you spent it automatically to draw a card.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Hinterlands Second Edition "leaked"
« on: June 21, 2022, 01:45:49 am »I feel like then it would just be better than Duchy too often though. In a relateively normal game you expect to have 4 Provinces by the end of the game. If you also keep your Estates, it only takes 2 Silk Roads for them to be worth as much as Duchies.Silk Road always seemed weak to me. Would it be too good if it were 1 for every 3 instead of 1 for every 4?
I'm guessing that would be fine.
That’s a big if.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Hinterlands Second Edition "leaked"
« on: June 20, 2022, 10:07:17 pm »Silk Road always seemed weak to me. Would it be too good if it were 1 for every 3 instead of 1 for every 4?
I'm guessing that would be fine.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Mobile app?
« on: June 17, 2022, 06:16:34 pm »I enjoy the Android app and the bot is actually interesting to play against. It's a battery hog though.
Yeah, I've actually started playing more against real people just because it's easier on my phone. The AI eats up the battery and heats up the phone like nothing else.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Mobile app?
« on: June 17, 2022, 03:37:59 pm »
It's technically also on iOS, but the beta slots were filled long ago, so you can't use it until it finally releases.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Prosperity 2E Preview 3
« on: June 11, 2022, 04:09:23 pm »
Collection actually did make only $1 for a while, I believe. It got bumped up to $2.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Prosperity 2E Preview 3
« on: June 11, 2022, 03:35:47 pm »Is that an invitation to post fan variants here? That's what it sounds like.
I think there's a big difference between "I wish this card worked this way instead" and "Hey Donald X., check out these fan cards I made!" I mean maybe there's not a specific line between the two, but I'm not worried at all about what's being discussed here.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Prosperity 2E Preview 3
« on: June 11, 2022, 03:33:30 pm »Guys, just let the game have wild combos.
There are plenty of cards in the game that warp it so much your usual strategies go out the window. Both players have equal access to the Collections and the Horses. If both show up at the same time, guess what? You get to contest a pile of good cards, just like every other game of Dominion.
If you’re playing for fun, there are exactly 0 people forcing you to use this combo. Replace Collections or replace the Horse gainer. If you’re playing ranked, the whole point of that game mode is to test your skills against other players in a variety of circumstances and see who is better able to adapt to unusual strategies.
No more errata. No more replacements or rules changes. Let the game be. If there’s a combo you don’t like, don’t put it on the board.
I would say there's a difference between wild combos and game-breaking combos. What I mean by that is, Collection-Stampede lets all players get into a stalemate by racking up VP forever. That's not just a wild combo.
But in general I prefer some craziness to awful clauses like "$3 or more", which seemed fine at the time but in retrospect is awful especially on Band of Nomads.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Prosperity 2E Preview 3
« on: June 10, 2022, 08:34:43 pm »I haven't seen mentions of Collection + Populate. I suppose because Populate is just so expensive compared to something like Stampede. But still, seems a bit nuts.
Well Populate moves the game toward a conclusion. Collection/Stampede is a golden deck.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Question for Donald X. or anyone else in the know
« on: June 10, 2022, 04:16:30 pm »if this is true absent some warning about the impending release/price reduction on the current stockpile of notably inferior cards (as per Donald X basically) this is kinda shady IMO.
I mean they are essentially printing $ with the new releases as many hard core dominionites will buy the 2nd edition too. You might as well fire-sale the old versions not dupe people into buying up the old inferior and soon to be outdated inventory.
Well I think the alternative is to not do second editions. Or I guess to wait until a set sells out, then start developing the second edition for it, test it, lay it out, print it, and ship it. And during that 6-12 month gap, lots of people complain that the expansion isn't available. Somehow I'm guessing the publisher isn't rushing to do that.
And as others have said, the first editions aren't awful. It's not like people are being tricked into buying something bad. There are plenty of rave reviews for the old expansions that remain perfectly valid. And some may even prefer the first editions.
As for a fire sale, who's eating that cost?
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Prosperity 2E Preview 3
« on: June 10, 2022, 11:30:45 am »It was a known issue, but what’s your suggested solution? Would it be better for Collection to have a confusing, hard-to-remember wording? It would be be great if the combo never came up in random sets online.
A possible solution could be to change the wording for Collection to "..., when you gain an Action card from the Supply, ...".
That was considered, I believe. Is that worth losing all the other non-Supply combos with Collection though? And will casual players remember that clause when it comes up so seldom?
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Prosperity 2E Preview 3
« on: June 10, 2022, 09:41:43 am »Even more nuts than Collection + Stampede: Collection + Cavalry + Academy + Way of the Butterfly.
Yes, this actually happened.
I just got into a game that was completely broken because of Collection + Stampede. It would be an endless game if the other player wouldn't resign. I think that's broken game design.
It was a known issue, but what’s your suggested solution? Would it be better for Collection to have a confusing, hard-to-remember wording? It would be be great if the combo never came up in random sets online.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Hinterlands Second Edition "leaked"
« on: June 08, 2022, 11:21:02 pm »I also do not expect the next expansion to be released this year so as to keep the expansions spaced out.
It's public knowledge at this point that there is a whole new expansion planned for this year. There may be delays of course, but so far everything seems to be moving along swiftly. I'm normally pessimistic about releases and even I think it has a pretty decent shot at coming out this year.
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Weekly Design Contest / Re: Weekly Design Contest #154: And another thing...
« on: June 07, 2022, 02:45:03 pm »
I will say from playtesting experience that the Telescope effect is super nuts. I'm guessing it's too strong for an Artifact like this. Luckily it's very easy to tone down by tweaking the number of cards, if you should decide to do so.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Supplies is so much better than silver that it's almost criminal
« on: June 04, 2022, 11:11:27 am »
The start of your turn is basically the best time to draw cards, so it’s quite possible Supplies is better than Peddler. It just depends on how much the first play hurts you.
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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Interview with Donald X.
« on: June 03, 2022, 09:36:28 pm »
I’m guessing 450 cards plus metal tokens and mats is a no-go.