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My username is Oyvind, and I think it was ØyvindSchiøtt at MF. I had to change it because of the Norwegian characters, so now I'm just Oyvind. I'm one of those who had everything that was available at the time on Making Fun. I have a gold subscription currently as well.

OK, here I go:

1. An offline client, allowing you to play campaigns against bots
Yes, please! I love campaign style games.

2. A bot with a setting for different play styles
Cool, but in no way necessary.

3. A strong bot
I really do hope for that!

4. Options for timed games
Nah, it wouldn't matter to me.

5. Options for undo settings
Yes, if you by that mean that you can auto-grant if someone hasn't gleaned new information and auto-deny if someone has.

6. Online mini-tournaments; the option to easily create one for you & your friends.
Sounds great!

7. Option to invite specific players to your table
Not for ranked play, but for friendlies, yes please.

8. More translations (to what language?)
Not necessary to me.

9. Better animations when cards are gained/bought/played/...
I don't know about better, but clearer would be swell!

10. Better visualization of split piles, Archive/Crypt contents, Prince targets, ...
Yes, please. I forget things like that all the time, and it's unfortunate having to go through the log to find info like that.

10. Option to hide the log
I'm perfectly fine with the log visible, but if you get to place more info on the screen, like additional cards that would be visible IRL, I'm all for it!

11. Android app (or just improved compatibility?)
No such device at the moment, so, no.

12. iPhone app (or just improved compatibility?)
An app would be amazing! I love the idea! And for iPad, even more!

13. Downloadable game logs
Yes, that would be very nice.

14. Improved moderation (dealing with chat abuse, slowplayers, ...)
I have no problem with that myself.

15. Tutorial on how to play Dominion
If 16 comes to fruition, I don't see a need for it.

16. Tutorial on how to play dominion online
I wouldn't need it myself, but if you want to grow the customer base, this is sorely needed! I'd say that any self-respecting game company should have a tutorial for all their games, physical or digital. A couple of my friends not familiar with Dominion already have tried it, and they just gave up...

That being said, I think you've done a fantastic job with this assignment. There's still a couple of things I'd love to see, though, and that is to be able to play with Possession again, if the opponents haven't banned it personally. I'd love to be able to play with Stash too, even if it isn't that good. And finally, and to me more importantly: Have options to search for 4p, 5p or 6p games! Without all the set-up time and quicker turns (compared to IRL playing), I see no reason why multiplayer games wouldn't work in a digital game. I prefer playing multiplayer games IRL, and that should be easier, not more difficult, to do digitally.

I want to report a player who was really impatient. We played 3p, and the third player in our game was probably a bit slower than me, and I was probably a bit slower than the impatient guy. I think his use of language would've been kind of OK, if anyone was using more than a minute or two per turn on average, but my guess is the most time anyone used on any of their turns was about 20-30 seconds. I hope it's possible to find how long each turn lasted, so that I can prove my point, but I can tell you that it wasn't any slower than a regular game. If not for his continuous 'shouting', I guess I wouldn't even start thinking about it as a slow game. #8112202 on frankfurt, it became #8112487 after he left. He even wrote his own countdown before he left...

I was in for a clinic:

mzdo 4, Oyvind 0
#7730544 mzdo
#7730882 mzdo
#7731342 mzdo
#7731846 mzdo

1) I just tried a game against a Bot with Butcher. I could indeed keep the earned coin tokens for several turns and then spend them.

2)I looked at your 9 games from the last 4 days (as defined by dominion.lauxnet.com) and none of them included a Butcher. Was it maybe an earlier game or a game under another user name?

I can't reproduce the bug and I need your help identifying the game where it happened.

Hi, thanks, and sorry for not coming back to you. I'm not that often on these Boards, so I actually didn't know you had replied. I've only got this one username both here and there. It's really difficult to remember how recently the game happened at the time I wrote this, but I'd imagine it shouldn't be much earlier. I think I posted it after reading about another bug with Butcher, so it could potentially be some days earlier, yes. Sorry, but I almost never write down the game IDs...

Losers' bracket 1st round result:

Oyvind 4
G.L. Morrison 2

#7423189 GLM
#7423662 GLM
#7424352 Oyvind
#7425027 Oyvind
#7425395 Oyvind
#7425909 Oyvind

I'm a loser :) Sign me up...

T.

What that guy said!

Thanks for giving us a second chance!

Hopefully I'll take advantage this time!  ;Dyvind

I'm in!

The 'known' bug for Butcher isn't the only one. Both an opponent and I bought and played Butcher in a game today, where the two coins were spent automatically every time we played it. This may explain the bug where you can't trash empty coppers/curses without gaining anything in return. Now it was just an overprized Remodel, and my early Quarries couldn't be converted to Militia, Talisman or Villa with coins left over. Annoying and clearly game-changing.

I've just won a game ...but had to resign, in order to get out of the game. The provinces were all gone and it dealt me my next hand and then said it was waiting for me ... i went out of the game and came back in ...but it was still there waiting for me.  Generally speaking, I think the end of game process needs looking at.
I have a screen snapshot

This has happened to me twice today. Won games by buying the last Province both times. I'm also playing on an iPad. Also, I cannot type any text. Well, after I post it, it disappears, so I can't ask the other players to resign. What an irritating bug...

If you play Pearl Diver with two cards left in your deck, you should be able to look at final after you draw the second-to-last. Why doesn't the game accomodate this? It's often an important thing to know.

Aha, thanks a lot!

What do I do if I want to start a 3-p with real players? I only get to play Lord Rattington and Revenge Witch...

Aha, thanks. Nice to know. I never have time to play unless I'm on a bus or a train, so I'm crossing my fingers for a quick resolution. 😀

I can't even begin to register a new account, as I don't get anything else than the castle screen, even when just entering dominion.games into the address field. It doesn't help clicking on the other link in the e-mail message either.

I have the exact same problem. Clicking "this link" in the Dominion Online - Welcome to 2017 message, I get to this castle screen without any progress. I tried both Safari, Opera and Firefox. No luck either way...