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I've managed to forget my username as well.

What's the best method for recovering?

remembering it was PatePate

1.2.6 introduced 3P automatching. However I didn't really have an idea what to do with the default rating requirements. My guess is the 3P ratings haven't really settled, because there weren't that many 3P games getting played, mostly because there wasn't any 3P matching before today.

So for now I just copied the restrictions from 2P (which means searching from -10 to +10), but quite possibly that makes it too hard to find a match and I need to double that range next week.

[Version 1.2.6]

Version 1.2.6
Improved automatcher:

• Allows for 3 player matching.
• Advanced/basic options.
• More feedback while searching.

(see this post)


Version 1.2.6.1

• visual fixes for friendlist.
• Russian labels corrected.

Yes one of the gameservers restarted (which shouldn't happen) then registered itself with the metaserver with a negative port number. This obviously isn't the root cause (still need to figure out why that gameserver restarted in the first place) but it resulted in everyone being redirected to a negative number and failing.

there was no need to post info about specific crashes here... it was a server problem :(

should be fixed now.

Sorry people... this happened while I was asleep. So far I've been reasonably happy with the uptime but clearly something went wrong here. It's been mostly unplayable for the last ~12 hours.

Should be all good now; please let me know if you still experience any problems.

I had the misfortune of playing a Tournament game today and I noticed that the prize/Duchy gain for Tournament is not mandatory. if I reveal a Province I should be required to gain something.

Actually you're only required to gain something if there is >0 duchy and >0 prize left.
If either one is sold out, you can choose the 'failing option'.

Thanks for the advice. Maybe there should be a strategy section here. I hate having to register for so many forums.

I certainly sympathize with that. I saw your post soon after you made it, and had seen someone once make a similar post and basically get the reply "we don't do that here" so I thought I'd save you the wait. Also, f.ds (how forum.dominionstrategy.com gets abbreviated) existed long before shuffleit and has spanned several online implementations and has years worth of knowledge. Still, your point about fewer forums being better is well taken.

I don't feel like controlling this. If there is a desire to speak about strategy on this forum, go ahead. As long as it doesn't interfere with the main function of the forum I don't think it will hurt anyone.

I don't think there is a very meaningful answer to this question... it depends so much on your perspective.

For what it's worth, I think there is a huge difference between level 20 and level 40. Not from the perspective of a level 60 player, who will lose to neither one of them and possibly shake his head when observing the play. But nonetheless a big difference in understanding the game, which will show when they play against each other.

hi,

i hope you can help me too..

i havent played for a long time and now i want to start again.. i am pretty sure my nick was kickcandy, but it dont works.. i also tried every other nick i have used in my online "career" - with no success!
please help me and sorry for my bad english..

best regards

dan

I found your account in the MF export, but it hasn't been transferred to our site... my guess is you never knew you could do that. Anyway, I'll send you the transfer URL by personal message.

Edit by Stef: I removed the rest of this thread. It resulted in public name & shame, which is against the policy as pointed out by Adam.

I am sorry to those who experience bad behaviour, but name & shame is not an response I believe in.
In my personal experience the bad behaviour is rare but maybe I got lucky. It also seems to be happening more among lower ratings.

Please try to minimize the impact. When at all possible, try to let it go. Put them on your blacklist. We are already monitoring who is on how many blacklists, so if they're real jerks we'll be on to them soon.

If it goes beyond that, send a PM to one of the moderators (LaLight, drsteelhammer, Watno) or one of the admins (Philip, Stef)

Hello Stef, can I do this after I lost? I would be absolutely fine with that. I will try that out.

Only if you accept you lost before it actually happens. Once the game is finished, you'll have to take LaLights route.

You can also type /undo and then click on the first dot in the log. It's not the same as one button but should get you what you want.

Edit: posts like these that mention names really should be removed from these forums. There needs to be a way to easily report these people and it needs to be private.

Yes I agree, I redacted the post. I'll also ask the other mods to remove or redact posts that explicitly mention people.
You can report people privately by sending a PM to one of the moderators or administrators on this forum.

I hate people misbehaving, but I don't believe in public name & shame at all.

Thanks for putting more thought into this. Your posts contain some suggestions that certainly make sense.

The lower initial phi of 1 instead of 2 seems good. It now seems to needlessly penalize new players. But can you back it up with some argument/example? Suppose a new account does pretty well on its first day, an 8-2 record against various random opponents, what would the resulting rating be for these two options?

I'm uncertain about using (mu - phi) over (mu - 2 * phi). While there is no need for quick degeneration of levels, I do actually believe you get worse at Dominion if you don't play for a while, and I don't want people that haven't played for half a year to still be near their old rating/rank.

I am tempted to change the system to immediate updates over daily updates. Not that I really prefer that myself, but people seem to like it and it prevents some questions about the current leaderboard.

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Most of all I don't want to introduce new rules/parameters too often. Ideally you or someone could compose an actual short list of proposed changes and when there are no valid counterarguments we just do that. That would require filling in some more details.