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Support / Re: Ranking isn't changing in ranked games
« Last post by shloutage on 12 September 2020, 03:36:48 AM »Ah, ok, thanks!
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Support / Re: Ranking isn't changing in ranked games
« Last post by Ingix on 11 September 2020, 08:52:36 PM »It's not just you, it affects everybody. I've notified Stef (the developer).
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Support / Ranking isn't changing in ranked games
« Last post by shloutage on 11 September 2020, 08:17:42 PM »Hi all,
First, amazing app & website for Dominion. Thank you to all developers.
My ranking hasn't been changing for the past 24 hours or so, even when I play ranked games (I only play ranked games). My username is yungpalowan. Can someone help me debug this? Thanks!
First, amazing app & website for Dominion. Thank you to all developers.
My ranking hasn't been changing for the past 24 hours or so, even when I play ranked games (I only play ranked games). My username is yungpalowan. Can someone help me debug this? Thanks!
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Support / Re: Please Delete My Account
« Last post by Ingix on 11 September 2020, 06:17:35 PM »Done for both accounts.
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Feature Requests / Re: Banned card list for bot games
« Last post by Ingix on 11 September 2020, 01:31:57 PM »I like the idea.
Adding some (maybe many) cards to the banned list vs. bots seems useful, as you note there are cards like Counterfeit or Torturer where the AI is off meaning lopsided games.
I would think everybody should be able to configure that themselves (I would for example not ban Bandit Fort but inlclude Defiled Shrine, which the bot never uses).
It's unfortunately not a cure against all the cases where the bot hangs, because some players use the "continue with bot" option when their opponent resigns.
I'd also think that the cases where a bot game hangs are really rare, if that game was started as such (not loaded or a continuation). As you note, you need some "gift cards" for that. So wouldn't want to ban for example Scepter from my bot games because it might also have Swindler or Masquerade and I get in the situation where I need to "gift" a Scepter to the bot.
OTOH, a hung game is hard to get out of for players (sometimes a resign works, sometimes it doesn't, IIRC). So maybe rarity isn't a counter argument. I need to think more about this.
But generally, such a bot-banned-list (in whatever implementation) sounds like a good idea!
Adding some (maybe many) cards to the banned list vs. bots seems useful, as you note there are cards like Counterfeit or Torturer where the AI is off meaning lopsided games.
I would think everybody should be able to configure that themselves (I would for example not ban Bandit Fort but inlclude Defiled Shrine, which the bot never uses).
It's unfortunately not a cure against all the cases where the bot hangs, because some players use the "continue with bot" option when their opponent resigns.
I'd also think that the cases where a bot game hangs are really rare, if that game was started as such (not loaded or a continuation). As you note, you need some "gift cards" for that. So wouldn't want to ban for example Scepter from my bot games because it might also have Swindler or Masquerade and I get in the situation where I need to "gift" a Scepter to the bot.
OTOH, a hung game is hard to get out of for players (sometimes a resign works, sometimes it doesn't, IIRC). So maybe rarity isn't a counter argument. I need to think more about this.
But generally, such a bot-banned-list (in whatever implementation) sounds like a good idea!
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Support / Re: Please Delete My Account
« Last post by LeChris on 11 September 2020, 05:08:49 AM »Hi,
Can you please delete my account? My login is LeChris. I d like playing account and forum account deleted please... Thanks
Can you please delete my account? My login is LeChris. I d like playing account and forum account deleted please... Thanks
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Feature Requests / Banned card list for bot games
« Last post by AdamH on 10 September 2020, 10:56:50 PM »After playing my tenth game in a row against a bot where I got a free win because of a certain card that causes it to play horribly, I had a revelation. Why isn't there a list of cards we can ban from games with bots?
First, this would provide an immediate solution that actually works for all of the cards that cause the game to hang whenever the bot tries to play them. I know it's probably in the bot's code to never buy these cards, and the hope is that this is enough that the bot never has to play that card and figure out how to make a decision that it's not coded to make, but as we can see there are cards like Swindler and Masquerade and whatever that get around this.
The severity of the bot hanging in this situation is HUGE -- it makes the software completely unusable in the worst possible way when it does happen, and I realize that some of these issues can be hard to track down and fix, so having a list of cards that will just never appear in the kingdom when a bot is in the game will solve this problem immediately so this kind of thing doesn't have to exist in your software where users can suffer from it. I guess this doesn't completely the case where "continue with bots" is used.
Second, it provides a more elegant solution to the fact that the presence of some cards in the kingdom means that the bot will fall flat on its face and it is absolutely no fun at all to play against the bot. Whenever I see one of these cards in the kingdom in a bot game I just resign and re-roll at this point. Sure, for some of them it would be easier to just change the code to "never buy Counterfeit ever" and it would be a huge improvement, but other cases are probably more difficult to code and just having them not appear at all fixes the problem for all of them. Here's a starter list of cards that I will see and just re-roll the kingdom when I see (with Lurker and Torturer sometimes I can get away with promising myself I won't buy the card but that's super lame):
Torturer
Counterfeit
Lurker
Bandit Fort
This list doesn't even have to be visible to the user, it can just happen behind the scenes, at least it shouldn't be configurable for the cards that have AI bugs. Maybe a little warning could pop up when you specify a kingdom with one of the bugged cards in it, warning the user or something? I don't really know or care about the details. I just know that banned cards lists are already implemented and this would almost certainly be very very easy to code and would greatly improve the user experience AND solve several huge huge huge problems with the AI that are causing the software to crash.
First, this would provide an immediate solution that actually works for all of the cards that cause the game to hang whenever the bot tries to play them. I know it's probably in the bot's code to never buy these cards, and the hope is that this is enough that the bot never has to play that card and figure out how to make a decision that it's not coded to make, but as we can see there are cards like Swindler and Masquerade and whatever that get around this.
The severity of the bot hanging in this situation is HUGE -- it makes the software completely unusable in the worst possible way when it does happen, and I realize that some of these issues can be hard to track down and fix, so having a list of cards that will just never appear in the kingdom when a bot is in the game will solve this problem immediately so this kind of thing doesn't have to exist in your software where users can suffer from it. I guess this doesn't completely the case where "continue with bots" is used.
Second, it provides a more elegant solution to the fact that the presence of some cards in the kingdom means that the bot will fall flat on its face and it is absolutely no fun at all to play against the bot. Whenever I see one of these cards in the kingdom in a bot game I just resign and re-roll at this point. Sure, for some of them it would be easier to just change the code to "never buy Counterfeit ever" and it would be a huge improvement, but other cases are probably more difficult to code and just having them not appear at all fixes the problem for all of them. Here's a starter list of cards that I will see and just re-roll the kingdom when I see (with Lurker and Torturer sometimes I can get away with promising myself I won't buy the card but that's super lame):
Torturer
Counterfeit
Lurker
Bandit Fort
This list doesn't even have to be visible to the user, it can just happen behind the scenes, at least it shouldn't be configurable for the cards that have AI bugs. Maybe a little warning could pop up when you specify a kingdom with one of the bugged cards in it, warning the user or something? I don't really know or care about the details. I just know that banned cards lists are already implemented and this would almost certainly be very very easy to code and would greatly improve the user experience AND solve several huge huge huge problems with the AI that are causing the software to crash.
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Interface Issues / Re: Pop up interference
« Last post by Ingix on 10 September 2020, 01:15:09 PM »I know this can happen but I don't know what causes it 
What you can try is to reload the browser windows (CTRL-R). That hopefully solves the problem without an undo.
What you can try is to reload the browser windows (CTRL-R). That hopefully solves the problem without an undo.
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Interface Issues / Pop up interference
« Last post by SaraCV on 10 September 2020, 09:32:35 AM »The following situation happened twice in my games tonight. A pop up window with a required selection was triggered (advisor and druid) then/while another object was viewed (right clicking on a kingdom card or being in kingdom view). In both cases, when returning to the pop up window, it was impossible to make a selection. The command bar said "choose x", and the pop up window was there showing the cards, but hovering over or clicking on the cards did not do anything. In both cases, we had to undo the action and reactivate the pop-up window in order to allow a selection.
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Support / Re: Please Delete My Account
« Last post by dramaticRoyalty on 10 September 2020, 08:07:50 AM »OH! That makes sense - totally a misunderstanding on my end. Thank you for your time!