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Out of curiosity I had started recording which cards were in which card pools, but I'd only looked at pools 1 to 3 prior to today, so I know only that Embargo wasn't in one of those.  For completeness I'd be interested to know which pool it was in.  Thanks.

I've now worked through pools 4 to 10 so that I won't have to ask the same question about any other Seaside card that gets deprecated in the next two days.

I tell a lie!  Rummaging around further on the Discord channel I found this comment from Ingix:

"We don't know what the problem is: Is the client not connecting, is the client connecting but nit getting any info, etc. The only person who can meaningfully create and manage the status page is also the only person who can find out and correct the problem, which happens usually much faster than a status page makes sense. I've contacted Stef to inform him of the problem, of course."

The good news is that the problem has also been reported on the Discord channel...

The bad news is that there's been no response there either.

Conversely I find that the boon often doesn't get displayed when my opponent plays the card (I can't remember its name) that gives a boon that all opponents can choose to take under certain circumstances.  I find myself having to view the kingdom to find out what the boon I am being offered does.  Sometimes, however, the boon does get displayed.  I've yet to spot any pattern to when it does or does not get shown.

Thanks.  I should probably have thought to look at the Tables option, but in the past I've only ever used it to look at a previous game.

In the past when a new set was released I'm fairly sure it was possible (at least sometimes) to specify that one wanted to play a bot game with extra cards from the set.  It's the method that I used to use to become familiar with the cards from new sets.  Unless I'm overlooking it, such an option doesn't seem to be available for Allies.  My suggestion is that it should be resurrected for future new sets (or made more obvious, i.e. as an option in 'Bot Game', if it does exist and I'm overlooking it).

0coin+8debt (City Quarter) is more than 0coin+0debt (e.g. Copper, Curse), but is indeterminate against all cards with a non-zero coin or potion cost with one exception: it's less than 8coin+8debt (Fortune).

Is level 10 too high to get other players?         

That might depend on your rating and hence the range of acceptable ratings for your opponent(s).  I've had no trouble with requiring level 10 when looking for an opponent with rating in the range 41-55, but maybe players with lower ratings are more reluctant to accept level 10 games.

I can assure you that if one is using an old PC and it crashes for some reason (thankfully something that has only ever happened to me a couple of times), it can already be a challenge to reboot, login, start the browser, and reconnect to the website in time.  Shortening the period significantly would make it impossible.

Does anyone else find the way multiple Royal Galleys are displayed at the start of the turn unhelpful?

What is currently displayed is a series of boxes labelled ROYAL GALLEY, each box having a tiny image of the card that the Royal Galley is going to play.  I've found it time consuming to pattern match that tiny image to the cards in the Kingdom (my memory is bad enough that I can rarely remember what actions I played with Royal Galley on my previous turn).  Fortunately Lord Rattington is very patient, but I fear that I shall be annoying other players when I graduate to using Allies in rated games.

It seems to me that the display is the wrong way round.  A series of boxes each labelled with the name of the card that is going to be played (which is what the player needs to know) together with a tiny image of the Royal Galley card (as an explanation of why the card is going to be played) would surely be more helpful.

I've not played a 3-player game since the new interface came in, but the descriptions I've read of how it works have caused me to disable the 3-player option when I'm searching for a match.

I should clarify that this happens on the web page that shows the result of the game, not on the web page on which the game is played.

The ornamental design at the far right of the screen covers much of the scroll bar for the chat.  I'd not noticed this before, but today I wanted to scroll back to see how many games I'd played.  My first impression was that there wasn't a scroll bar, but then I noticed bits of grey peeking out from behind the ornamental design.

Given how often this question and reply crops up, it might be a good idea for the Loading Game page to include the text "If this page hangs, open a private (Firefox) or incognito (Chrome) window, go to dominion.games, enter your Name and Password, but don't click 'Login'. Instead, click on 'Kick and Resign' (rightmost of 3 buttons below the login data area). Then you should be able to login normally (no need for private/incognito tab)."

After our first game my opponent made himself ready for a second.  I tried clicking on 'Ready' to do the same, but with no result.  My first reaction was to click again, but again no effect.  Then I tried refreshing the screen, but that threw me back to the Matching screen (having momentarily shown me the login screen), so we didn't get to play a second game.

Subsequently I played a couple of games against another opponent, this time successfully clicking on 'Ready' after the first game.  After the second game I was about to click on Ready when my opponent left the table.  I then noticed that even though my mouse was positioned over 'Ready', it was not indicating that the field was clickable.  Moving the cursor around somewhat revealed that only the upper and lower parts of the 'Ready' field were clickable.  From just above the text to about half way down from the text to the bottom of the field was not clickable.

I'm using Firefox 97.0 on Ubuntu.