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Many times I play interesting kingdoms and want to play them again later. I guess this is probably a slightly different feature, but a "save to my kingdoms" button at the end of the game would be nice.

@allanfieldhouse I definitely agree it should probably be auto-off for the reason you mentioned (and a few crazy ones like you don't want to be forced to cycle from an opposing minion, you want to handicap a possession hand, or you're playing around triggering a weird shuffle).

The real reason I want is for pace of play -- it really slows down turns when I have to wait for opponents to respond to prompts every 5-10 seconds.

I'm ryan.echternacht on MF and the new client.

1. An offline client, allowing you to play campaigns against bots

I'd prioritize this lowly.

2. A bot with a setting for different play styles

I'm, personally, more interested in an open bot SDK that would allow me to try to build my own. I'd be happy to collaborate on this. (I'm a dev, and know Icehawk78, the King's Courtier dev, irl).

3. A strong bot.

I'd only experience this if I played campaigns.

4. Options for timed games

Hmmm. I understand the pain when the 15 min game you expected take 30-40 minutes. That said, I don't know how to implement this fairly. If this is turn based, I think everyone deserves a long turn or two across a game. If this is game-based -- every board is different, so I don't see how you do this fairly.

I imagine people ask about this for 2 reasons, and it'd probably be worthwhile to figure out which one is more important (and which one, if either, you'd like to address) -- am I upset because I wanted a 15min game and it's 35min instead, or am I upset because I think my opponent is playing slowly (especially if s/he is getting attack prompts which keep interrupting my turn).

5. Options for undo settings

I'm a chronic undoer, so I'd never restrict these options. That said, there are probably 3 undos --
1) I committed a whole action and changed my mind. If people want to block this, I think we have to accept it.
2) I'm halfway through an action and changed my mind (especially when it involves choosing things). I would like to preserve my ability to undo these
3) I messed something up technically. These are the most frustrating, and I think you're already trying to fix these. Not sure how to handle these.

If possible, it'd be interesting to implement an "auto allow undos without new information", but I imagine that would have a ton of corner cases.

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

This could be cool. I would probably use this.

7. Option to invite specific players to your table

This would be nice. In general, I think the friends list has a lot of improvements (smarter offline recognition, easier to start games, chat).

8. More translations (to what language?)

English is my first language.

9. Better animations when cards are gained/bought/played/...

This has gotten better. I liked seeing cards show up when cards like hunting party are played. Also, the log is a bit weak on these.

10. Better visualization of split piles, Archive/Crypt contents, Prince targets, ...

King's Courtier helps out here, but I think this is important. The enchantress improvement was great, but we definitely need more. Additionally, I still forget to call teacher a bunch at the start of my turn.

10. Option to hide the log

Nope, I would not use this ever.

11. Android app (or just improved compatibility?)

I'm iOS

12. iPhone app (or just improved compatibility?)

I didn't even know this was released. I already play too much, so hopefully you don't release this :)

13. Downloadable game logs

Could be cool, and it might enable some interesting 3rd party applications. I'm doubtful I'd use it on its own.

14. Improved moderation (dealing with chat abuse, slowplayers, ...)

I've never had an issue, so not sure how good this is (or how much it's needed).

15. Tutorial on how to play Dominion

I would imagine that most people play in person before moving online. I definitely don't need it.

16. Tutorial on how to play dominion online.

If you know how to play dominion, I think you learn this in 1-2 bot games. I definitely don't need it.

There should be an autoplay option for not discarding once the curses run out. Currently, you have to keep clicking "Don't Discard", which is almost always the choice you want (and hence why autoplay would be nice).

When you play an Overlord as a Treasury, it correctly prompts you to put it back on top of your deck at end of turn.

However, it doesn't distinguish between actual Treasuries and Overlord as treasuries. I assume it orders them in the same order you played them, but that's an assumption.

In most circumstances, you would probably always choose to topdeck them, and the order isn't relevant, but there are definitely conditions where this is not the case.

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To fix this, I'd recommend using the Overlord art instead of the Treasury art in the end of turn ordering menu.

Same issue with Hireling and Enchantress. So the issue is clearly with the log (not the specific cards).

n draws a card (Hireling).
n draws 2 cards (Enchantress).

The log text for putting gear'd cards back into your hand, doesn't allow you to right-click on "Gear" and see a card preview. The log text is below. I'm assuming it's because the parentheses around it are being joined into the name, and thus it doesn't know to look.

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D puts 6 cards in hand (Gear).

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The game crashed when I won a game using Possession -- i.e. I ended the game while possessing my opponent.

My guess is that it tried to transition back to my view of the game, but since it had moved into the end-game state, it just sorta hung. All I saw was a black screen. My opponent said s/he didn't have an issue.

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