Topic: What's the worst Isotropic quirk in your opinion? (Read 52745 times)

theory · « **Reply #150 on:** April 26, 2012, 01:50:04 pm »

At last, WanderingWinder's secret is exposed!!

Davio · « **Reply #151 on:** April 26, 2012, 02:04:45 pm »

Gotta try this for the official app.

WanderingWinder · « **Reply #152 on:** April 26, 2012, 02:13:35 pm »

Quote from: theory on April 26, 2012, 01:50:04 pm

At last, WanderingWinder's secret is exposed!!

Shhhhh!!!! Don't let them onto that!

timchen · « **Reply #153 on:** April 26, 2012, 02:29:44 pm »

Curious, in this case isn't a wood cutter strictly better than a platinum, or for a board without +buy, you may as well open colony/colony?

BaruMonkey · « **Reply #154 on:** April 26, 2012, 02:40:49 pm »

Quote from: timchen on April 26, 2012, 02:29:44 pm

Curious, in this case isn't a wood cutter strictly better than a platinum, or for a board without +buy, you may as well open colony/colony?

But then the trolling might be slightly less hilarious

GendoIkari · « **Reply #155 on:** April 26, 2012, 02:42:53 pm »

Quote from: dougz on April 26, 2012, 12:25:27 pm

Quote from: Kirian on April 26, 2012, 10:33:36 am
How the hell did that even happen?

Yeah, so, um, embarrassing.

After theory posted that log, I was curious if there was a bug or exploit or something (it's a year old, but I didn't remember fixing anything along those lines), so I wrote to the player and asked him, and while I waited for him to reply I went reading through that section of the code.

Turns out that (until last night) the server didn't actually check to see if you had enough money to buy the card you asked to buy. Normally it's not a problem because the interface only makes cards clickable if you can afford them, but if you hack the javascript, or insert a proxy that modifies the request on the way to the server (as bdhcompany did) it would happily sell you any card in the supply whether you had the money for it or not. Whoops!

Anyway, bdhcompany was cool about it, that game was apparently a joke he was playing on his co-workers. And it's fixed now, so this shouldn't be possible any longer.

No, I'm not going to do anything about past games. If anyone was using it regularly, I guess we'll see a precipitous fall on the leaderboard soon...

Man, I'm really annoyed at myself now for having never tried to hack the Javascript!

jonts26 · « **Reply #156 on:** April 28, 2012, 12:33:36 am »

Did anyone else notice the "repeat last game" option added to isotropic next to the card constraints? Now that's a feature I can get behind.

WanderingWinder · « **Reply #157 on:** April 28, 2012, 08:19:58 am »

Quote from: jonts26 on April 28, 2012, 12:33:36 am

Did anyone else notice the "repeat last game" option added to isotropic next to the card constraints? Now that's a feature I can get behind.

That's been there for quite a while.

jonts26 · « **Reply #158 on:** April 28, 2012, 01:37:19 pm »

And no one bothered to tell me? I can't be expected to notice these things on my own.

jotheonah · « **Reply #159 on:** April 28, 2012, 02:42:21 pm »

Whoops wrong thread.

def · « **Reply #160 on:** April 28, 2012, 02:44:42 pm »

So the worst Isotropic quirk definitely is that there are improvements and we aren't told about them!

timchen · « **Reply #161 on:** April 28, 2012, 05:10:50 pm »

Dunno if mentioned in the thread, one thing that bothers me is that when auto-matching, it is quite likely that the system will pair you up with someone that repeatly rejects you.

Or when someone is afk, you have to wait until timeout, as otherwise you are quite likely to be paired up with the same guy again.

Schneau · « **Reply #162 on:** April 29, 2012, 11:56:14 am »

Something that has been bothering me recently is that the "info" and "+$n" buttons move around depending on whether it is your turn or not. Multiple times recently I have gone to click "info" during my opponent's turn, and had it turn into "+$n" just as I click it. It would be better if "info" never moved.

Speaking of moving things, it is a pain in the butt to have the constraint selection moving up and down when you're trying to use it. Why not put this above the players list so that it's much easier to use? I feel like I have to be speedy quick to ever get constraints set up.

SwitchedFromStarcraft · « **Reply #163 on:** April 29, 2012, 11:56:29 am »

Quote from: theory on April 25, 2012, 06:13:07 pm

dougz rises to the top of the leaderboard with his patented Platinum/Platinum opening.

(Link may actually have nothing to do with doug, but it is the most bizarre Isotropic log I've ever seen.)

With so many oddities in that log to choose from, I thought the most bizarre was that despite the "purchasing power", the game lasted 36 turns and ended on Provinces.

Edited: To add punctuation.

jonts26 · « **Reply #164 on:** May 03, 2012, 01:35:49 am »

Ok, so not really a big deal at all, but something that's always kind of bugged me.

The iso game logs, when listing the kingdom cards, have the last card listed after the word 'and'. I can't simply copy/paste that info into the card constraints. I have to take all sorts of time hitting backspace a few times.

blueblimp · « **Reply #165 on:** May 04, 2012, 06:11:03 pm »

Minor thing: in the Great Hall, there are almost always enough people on that the chat area is below the bottom of my screen.

Davio · « **Reply #166 on:** May 04, 2012, 07:03:31 pm »

Quote from: jonts26 on May 03, 2012, 01:35:49 am

Ok, so not really a big deal at all, but something that's always kind of bugged me.

The iso game logs, when listing the kingdom cards, have the last card listed after the word 'and'. I can't simply copy/paste that info into the card constraints. I have to take all sorts of time hitting backspace a few times.

Still, it's better than 10 comboboxes with 150 options each.

BaruMonkey · « **Reply #167 on:** May 10, 2012, 04:52:58 pm »

Worst isotropic quirk: Its vulnerability to local neighborhood utility work!

Galzria · « **Reply #168 on:** May 10, 2012, 04:56:37 pm »

Quote from: BaruMonkey on May 10, 2012, 04:52:58 pm

Worst isotropic quirk: Its vulnerability to local neighborhood utility work!

I live relatively nearby, but don't have any power outages (scheduled or not)... Maybe there is something to this theory about the official app... "Rabbit Holes!"

BaruMonkey · « **Reply #169 on:** May 10, 2012, 05:33:09 pm »

Quote from: Galzria on May 10, 2012, 04:56:37 pm

Quote from: BaruMonkey on May 10, 2012, 04:52:58 pm
Worst isotropic quirk: Its vulnerability to local neighborhood utility work!
I live relatively nearby, but don't have any power outages (scheduled or not)... Maybe there is something to this theory about the official app... "Rabbit Holes!"

http://youtu.be/a1Y73sPHKxw!

GendoIkari · « **Reply #170 on:** May 10, 2012, 05:52:44 pm »

Quote from: Galzria on May 10, 2012, 04:56:37 pm

Quote from: BaruMonkey on May 10, 2012, 04:52:58 pm
Worst isotropic quirk: Its vulnerability to local neighborhood utility work!

I live relatively nearby, but don't have any power outages (scheduled or not)... Maybe there is something to this theory about the official app... "Rabbit Holes!"

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