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Dominion General Discussion / Re: How often would you like to use Colonies?
« on: October 31, 2011, 11:20:26 pm »
I prefer to use the suggestion in the Prosperity rulebook and have a chance to use Platinum and Colonies with a frequency proportional to the number of Prosperity kingdom cards in the set. That suggestion is there for a reason.
For one thing, most of the Prosperity cards are more effective in a Colony game than in a normal Province game. By using a flat rate for Colony games and disassociating them from the Prosperity cards, you're making many of the Prosperity cards less useful a lot of the time.
More importantly, there are a lot of cards that perform particularly poorly in a Colony game. The cards that produce Silver are a good example. If you always (or usually) play with Colonies, that's a whole bunch of cards that you'll never have an occasion to use.
I use a randomizer that randomly picks two expansions and then selects 5 cards from each. That way I actually have a decent selection of Prosperity cards for my Colony/Platinum games.
For one thing, most of the Prosperity cards are more effective in a Colony game than in a normal Province game. By using a flat rate for Colony games and disassociating them from the Prosperity cards, you're making many of the Prosperity cards less useful a lot of the time.
More importantly, there are a lot of cards that perform particularly poorly in a Colony game. The cards that produce Silver are a good example. If you always (or usually) play with Colonies, that's a whole bunch of cards that you'll never have an occasion to use.
I use a randomizer that randomly picks two expansions and then selects 5 cards from each. That way I actually have a decent selection of Prosperity cards for my Colony/Platinum games.