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You are right, the Sauna/Silver interaction has caught me also a few times. But the problem is that at the moment which treasures are auto-played is a simple, fixed, list (AFAIK). Making it situation-dependend would probably involve a lot of changes.

The Sauna / Silver thing wouldn't actually require the autoplay list to vary dependent on situation. It just requires the treasures to be played in a particular order. Since I can't think of a situation where it's critical NOT to play Silvers before other basic treasures, it could simply play Silver first regardless of whether Sauna is out. Similarly Bank could always be played last, although I guess this could still cause problems where there are non-autoplay treasures in hand as well.

The Copper / Grand Market problem is harder, I agree.

I know, I know, I shouldn't use Autoplay Treasures when I need to play them in a particular order, and when there are kingdom treasures I usually remember, but somehow with Sauna because the treasures are just the basic ones I forget that I need to play the Silvers first and trash the Coppers. So please could the Autoplay Treasures button play the Silvers first when you have a Sauna in play?

Also, while I'm on the subject, please could the button not play Coppers when Grand Market is available? Again I know I should remember (and usually do), but it seems strange that it holds back treasures like Loan and Quarry that you'll be happy to play at least 99% of the time you have them but still plays Copper when Grand Market is out.

Thanks!

...and by the way (as if my previous post wasn't long and boring enough), I certainly don't think that paying a few bucks a month to play the game means I have a God-given right to be protected from people who might behave abusively. There's only so much the mods can do to stop banned users simply creating new accounts, and I'm grateful for their efforts, especially if they're unpaid volunteers. I'm just trying to make suggestions to make the system even better.

Jeebus,
I might cut the other guy some slack.

To be fair, I think that was kind of Jeebus's point. He doesn't think his opponent did anything objectively bad or that he should be banned, but he would prefer not to play against that opponent again. He can choose to blacklist the opponent, but is perhaps worried that this is tantamount to reporting him for abusive behaviour and asking that he be banned.

I often have the same dilemma. I personally like to think about my turns more than a lot of other people, and I have no problem with other people thinking as long as they like about theirs. If someone times out and I'm offered the chance to resign them, I always ask in the chat whether they're still there and give them another couple of minutes before I resign them even if their situation in the game is hopeless. I like to chat with my opponent about the game and learn something to help me play better even if I lose. But I get the fact that not everyone enjoys the same kind of game and that my slow play annoys some people to the extent that they would rather not play against me again. That doesn't mean I think they're bad people or deserve to be banned from playing, but naturally I would prefer to play against other people who enjoy the game the way I do. I feel that the best solution would be to be able to distinguish between saying "this is a perfectly decent human being but I don't want to be matched with them again" and saying "this person acted abusively and should be banned from the game".

Personally I don't think that the option to mute the chat achieves anything useful. In my experience the trolls usually wait until the end of the game and then just post a single abusive comment. I'm not going to mute chat in every game just on the off chance that my opponent might by the kind of person to post an abusive comment when they lose.

And finally I don't think looking for specific swear words serves any useful purpose at all. Perhaps there are people who would be terribly offended if their opponent typed "Bad luck! You had some really shitty draws that game" but wouldn't care if their opponent wrote "I hope you die, you stupid moron", but I'd venture that they're few and far between. And even they could be better dealt with by having the option to express a preference not to be matched with this person again without having to "blacklist" them.

Brilliant! Thanks so much.

I'm assuming the answer is no, but is there a way to retrieve a log of a game? I have the game ID from http://dominion.lauxnet.com/scavenger/ and would like to look back over it to see whether I could have done better.