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Game Log Issues / Re: Settlers

« on: 19 October 2018, 10:08:30 AM »

Right. Technically it should log that it *reveled* a Copper/Settlers and make sure it is understood that *that* card got put into hand.

I also agree on the problem of giving the number of cards looked at.

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General Discussion / Re: Communication about these updates

« on: 19 October 2018, 12:37:29 AM »

I, and I assume many others, find that they get lots of advertisment emails from institutions that they had to give their email adress for some reason or another.

That's why it is generally a good idea *not* to bombard players with emails 'just because you can'.

I think somewhere the idea was discussed that players can opt in to a newsletter, which would send emails if something relevant was announced.

Lack of emails is how many people missed out on the survey and free six months of subscription late last year/ early this year (whenever it was).

Mostly they missed out on that because they did not play anymore and thus did not get the ingame notification. Which is of course a kind of circular problem, if they stopped playing because their subscription ran out.

But this is a general problem in this day and age: How to propagate information without bombarding players with information that they don't want.

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Card Bugs / Re: Overpay doctor has an off-by-one error

« on: 17 October 2018, 09:22:15 AM »

Thanks for the report, vinay!

It looks like the number is off by one the whole time, but it's most obvious when it's the last card.

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Dominion Online Championship 2018 / Round 5 pairings

« on: 14 October 2018, 11:05:33 PM »

General advice:

Please remember that you should contact your moderator when you have not heard from your opponent on Wednesday 12 UTC! That gives us time to do things, instead of getting to know of this fact on Sunday evening when the round should be almost over.

Results of this round can be found here.

Burning Skull - Mercury444F   (Mod: drsteelhammer)
derg17 - Sicomatic   (Mod: Gazbag)
DG - Mic Qsenoch   (Mod: Ingix)
elementmario222 - vsiewnar   (Mod: Ingix)
jan - JoMa   (Mod: volfied)
jfrisch - singletee   (Mod: drsteelhammer)
JoMa - jan   (Mod: volfied)
jonts - markus   (Mod: volfied)
limetime - rsilverstein12   (Mod: Gazbag)
markus - jonts   (Mod: volfied)
Mercury444F - Burning Skull   (Mod: drsteelhammer)
Mic Qsenoch - DG   (Mod: Ingix)
rsilverstein12 - limetime   (Mod: Gazbag)
Sicomatic - derg17   (Mod: Gazbag)
singletee - jfrisch   (Mod: drsteelhammer)
vsiewnar - elementmario222   (Mod: Ingix)

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Dominion Online Championship 2018 / Round 5 results

« on: 14 October 2018, 11:01:50 PM »

The preferred method for reporting match results is to use the following google form.

If there are problems with the form (like you mistyped the result, etc.) post your Round 5 results here.

Matchups and reported results will be visible here.

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Card Bugs / Re: Mountain Pass

« on: 14 October 2018, 09:35:34 AM »

Thanks for the problem report, afatcat!
Do you have the game number of that game or do you know if it was a rated game?

I just tested the situation and couldn't reproduce it. What's even more strange is that the game shouldn't allow the second person to even bid less (or an equal amount). Normally, when the first player bids say 6 debt, the other is given the option to bid 7 debt or more, see the screenshot from my test game.

Was anything else 'unusual' going on, maybe an extra turn or something like that?

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Card Bugs / Re: Known Card Bugs

« on: 13 October 2018, 02:51:47 PM »

Modifications in October:

• 18-10-13:
  • Added Herbalist + other Cleanup effects bug of the bot becomming stuck when they played Herblist and another effect that modifies Cleanup (Travellers, Walled Garden, Alchemist,...).

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Interface Issues / Re: Known interface problems

« on: 12 October 2018, 11:36:06 AM »

Modifications in Oktober 2018:
Renaissance preview brought some improvements, but also a new bug:

• 18-10-12:
  
  • Removed States/information unavailable bug that is now fixed (you can see any player's states at all times in their info box).
  • Reduced the affected cards of the set aside cards/information unavailable bug, because many of the previously mentioned cards now show what they set aside.
  • Removed Druid Boons moving bug where an opponent's activity could move the Druid Boons you were looking at around the screen.
  • Added Action selection for Inn gain may be limited bug where you can sometimes only select one copy of any Action card to be shuffled into your deck.
• 18-10-12:
  
  • Added Doctor remaining cards to inspect bug where it says there are X more cards to inspect when in reality there are only X-1.

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Interface Issues / Re: Gaining Inn from the Trash

« on: 12 October 2018, 10:17:26 AM »

Thanks for the extremely detailed problem description. It's been known that sometimes there are problems, but since it was caused by a feature introduced for Mountain Village from Renaissance, I tried to keep it out of the known bugs until Renaissance relesaes. But in the end that is a foolish idea: Maybe it will be fixed before, maybe not, but it affects players *now*, so should be in the known bugs list. Will add it promplty.

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Other Bugs / Re: Game end screen of wrong game

« on: 10 October 2018, 09:51:46 AM »

Thanks for the info, Adam.

Another player reported problems yesterday that could ultimately be traced down to connection problems to the different game related servers. Your problem sounds similar. The screen you see after the game ends is coming from a different server than used to play the game. If there is a connection problem, you might get to see 'stale' data from a previous game, like the one you spectated.

It's not clear why the connection problems were there, they assume a browser update. Or maybe the connection was really problematic. But what you saw (and I experienced also rarely) may be ultimately caused by the server not knowing that you played another game after spectating.

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Dominion Online Championship 2018 / Round 4 pairings

« on: 08 October 2018, 06:30:45 PM »

General advice from experiences from the first round:

Please remember that you should contact your moderator when you have not heard from your opponent on Wednesday 12 UTC! That gives us time to do things, instead of getting to know of this fact on Sunday evening when the round should be almost over.

Also, try to log into your forum account at least once a day so you can actually see if you are contacted. Better yet, change your settings such that you get your personal messages sent to your email address.

Two matches from round 3 are still ongoing. If a winner is determined, the respective opponent will be informed.

Results of this round can be found here.

13csande - elementmario222   (Mod: Ingix)
bobbydj18 - derg17   (Mod: Gazbag)
Burning Skull - Rabid   (Mod: drsteelhammer)
COYS - TBD   (Mod: drsteelhammer)
derg17 - bobbydj18   (Mod: Gazbag)
DG - Seprix   (Mod: Ingix)
E.Honda - Mercury444F   (Mod: drsteelhammer)
elementmario222 - 13csande   (Mod: Ingix)
Emeric - jonts   (Mod: volfied)
jan - kaminarizumu [kaminarizumu714]   (Mod: volfied)
Jimmmy - limetime   (Mod: Gazbag)
JoMa - MVP   (Mod: volfied)
jonts - Emeric   (Mod: volfied)
kaminarizumu [kaminarizumu714] - jan   (Mod: volfied)
limetime - Jimmmy   (Mod: Gazbag)
markus - TBD   (Mod: volfied)
Mercury444F - E.Honda   (Mod: drsteelhammer)
Mic Qsenoch - Mike Thicke   (Mod: Ingix)
Mike Thicke - Mic Qsenoch   (Mod: Ingix)
mikechike - Sicomatic   (Mod: Gazbag)
MVP - JoMa   (Mod: volfied)
Rabid - Burning Skull   (Mod: drsteelhammer)
rsilverstein12 - swordfishtrombone   (Mod: Gazbag)
RTT - vsiewnar   (Mod: Ingix)
Seprix - DG   (Mod: Ingix)
Sicomatic - mikechike   (Mod: Gazbag)
singletee - wharf_rat   (Mod: drsteelhammer)
swordfishtrombone - rsilverstein12   (Mod: Gazbag)
TBD - markus   (Mod: volfied)
TBD - COYS   (Mod: drsteelhammer)
vsiewnar - RTT   (Mod: Ingix)
wharf_rat - singletee   (Mod: drsteelhammer)

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Dominion Online Championship 2018 / Round 4 results

« on: 08 October 2018, 06:26:09 PM »

The preferred method for reporting match results is to use the following google form.

If there are problems with the form (like you mistyped the result, etc.) post your Round 4 results here.

Matchups and reported results will be visible here.

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Interface Issues / Re: card on top of discard

« on: 08 October 2018, 09:43:21 AM »

To summarize: If you had cards in play when the Cleanup happens that end up discarded, you want the game put one of them on top of the discard. If not, and you have cards in hand that will be discarded, let the game choose you which one to put on top.

I have to confess that I'm still not totally sure on what exactly should happen.

While you can discard your hand completely and 'mask' all but the top card, I don't think you can combine this with discarding your in-play cards in such a way as to mask all of your discarded cards from hand. Because we know that in theory the discard of in-play cards happens one at a time, with various things possibly triggering from them (Hermit, Travellers,...).

So I *think* that you cannot hide at least one card discarded from your hand from your opponent. In this case, showing one of those cards on top of opponent's discard pile woule be correct.

Of course, the argument that the discarding player has no control over what that card is is still valid.

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Game Log Issues / Re: Butcher / Start of phase effects

« on: 06 October 2018, 08:11:30 AM »

Thanks for the report, crlundy!

The end-of-phase/beginning of phase thing is sure getting more important, as more and more cards use it. I had a similiar few minutes of confusion when I played Pirate Ship, attacked and actually got some Gold in addition to the pirate counter. In the log it totally looked like it was part of the Pirate Ship effect.

In reality, it was Gold from the Treasure Chest. It just made perfect narrative sense that a Pirate Ship would bring you Gold, so I had to look at the text again to make sure I didn't misremember.

About the Coffers use before the gain: This is probably confusing, I'll see if something can be done about it.

Again, thanks for reportin the problems!

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Card Bugs / Re: Trashing an estate with a bishop only gives 1 VP

« on: 04 October 2018, 09:57:33 AM »

Thnaks for reporting the problem, RemcoU!

That the initial, fixed +1 VP from Bishop is not logged at the moment is known and being worked on. But in all those cases that I witnessed (and just checked again), the actual VP gain as shown in your info bar is +2 VP (for an Estate).

I looked at your rated games from the last day, one of them had a Bishop in it (and a Chariot Race). I went through the game log and marked down all the VP tokens you and your opponent *should* get from Bishop and Chariot Race. I got the final VP token count (as shown in the info box) correct for both of you on the first try. If the logging  error was indeed a VP counting error, my count should have gotten at least 3 or 4 VP tokens more for both of you (because you both played a Bishop several times).

So I guess that in this case you erred when thinking that the shown VP count was incorrect. This may have been caused by the fact that the VP counter increases by 1 the moment you play Bishop, then it waits for you to trash a card, and after you do this, increases the VP counter for the appropriate amount a second time. It's easy to forget that the VP counter at the time you consider what to trash is already increased from the pre-Bishop state.

But again, thanks for reporting the problem, the log definitely misses the initial +1VP!