Feature Requests

[mrfiat]

Thanks for all the hard work guys!

Dominion Feature List
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* Player ratings.  (should have a way to see this when looking at a table, when a player is joining a game, and during a game)  Should show their record, quit rate, and rating.
* Way to sort the Tables List by age of game, # of players, and rating of player.
* A way to exclude bots from games.
* Person that lost in last game goes first.  Otherwise random.
* Ability to blacklist players.
* Public room with all players in it.  Ability to chat with anyone.
* Ability to exclude certain cards.
* Equal starting hands option.  (4/3 or 5/2)
* A text version similar to Isotropic would be a great option. (This was promised by Stef, ETA?)
* Equal # of turns option.  (i.e. phantom provinces)
* Ability to reconnect. (not sure if you have this yet?)
* Private rooms.
* Ability to veto random sets before the game starts.
* Each player should do at least one move before they can timeout and it is counted as a loss. (do you have this?)
* A way to mute someone in chat.  (Can it do this?)
* Game does not start until both players confirm.  (It does not do this if you click on "Good Match")

Also your website is very hard to find.  playdominion.com should have a link to your website.  Isotropic should
link to you as well.  When I type "Play Dominion" into Google, you should be the first hit.  Right now you don't even show up.

[katie_mi]

I agree with all your points,

[limetime]

Ability to reconnect is allready a feature.

[mrfiat]

So if I reboot my computer in the middle of a game it will resume when I go back into Dominion?  (I guess I can try it)

[yed]

So if I reboot my computer in the middle of a game it will resume when I go back into Dominion?  (I guess I can try it)

Yes, it works. Sometimes it says "Already logged in.", so you need to kick your session first. How to kick: http://forum.shuffleit.nl/index.php?topic=849.0

[DistantLands]

Thanks for all the hard work guys!

Dominion Feature List
---------------------
* Player ratings.  (should have a way to see this when looking at a table, when a player is joining a game, and during a game)  Should show their record, quit rate, and rating.
* Way to sort the Tables List by age of game, # of players, and rating of player.
* A way to exclude bots from games.
* Person that lost in last game goes first.  Otherwise random.
* Ability to blacklist players.
* Public room with all players in it.  Ability to chat with anyone.
* Ability to exclude certain cards.
* Equal starting hands option.  (4/3 or 5/2)
* A text version similar to Isotropic would be a great option. (This was promised by Stef, ETA?)
* Equal # of turns option.  (i.e. phantom provinces)
* Ability to reconnect. (not sure if you have this yet?)
* Private rooms.
* Ability to veto random sets before the game starts.
* Each player should do at least one move before they can timeout and it is counted as a loss. (do you have this?)
* A way to mute someone in chat.  (Can it do this?)
* Game does not start until both players confirm.  (It does not do this if you click on "Good Match")

Also your website is very hard to find.  playdominion.com should have a link to your website.  Isotropic should
link to you as well.  When I type "Play Dominion" into Google, you should be the first hit.  Right now you don't even show up.

I'd also like the ability to create random supplies/game by checking/unchecking various expansions. The physical and old digital Dominion both have this feature. Seems like it could be a matter of "shuffling"

[gkrieg]

Thanks for all the hard work guys!

Dominion Feature List
---------------------
* Player ratings.  (should have a way to see this when looking at a table, when a player is joining a game, and during a game)  Should show their record, quit rate, and rating.

They are working on this.  They have frozen the past rankings for a couple of weeks so everyone can learn how to play on the new client and they can get a leaderboard and stuff setup.  This stuff is planned.

* A way to exclude bots from games.

This is already implemented.  Just do good match or quick match, or wait until a table has the minimum number of players at it before you click ready.

* Person that lost in last game goes first.  Otherwise random.

I'm pretty sure they are already looking into this.  It may even be implemented already.  I know you can choose who goes first in the game settings.

* Public room with all players in it.  Ability to chat with anyone.

I guess I am of the opposite mind.  Why do you want this?

* Ability to exclude certain cards.

Just mark those cards as unfamiliar and set max unfamiliar cards to 0 in your settings

* Equal starting hands option.  (4/3 or 5/2)

This isn't in the rules of dominion, although I think it would be a good feature.

* A text version similar to Isotropic would be a great option. (This was promised by Stef, ETA?)

I know this is on their radar.

* Equal # of turns option.  (i.e. phantom provinces)
* Private rooms.
* Ability to veto random sets before the game starts.
* Each player should do at least one move before they can timeout and it is counted as a loss. (do you have this?)
* A way to mute someone in chat.  (Can it do this?)
* Game does not start until both players confirm.  (It does not do this if you click on "Good Match")

Also your website is very hard to find.  playdominion.com should have a link to your website.  Isotropic should
link to you as well.  When I type "Play Dominion" into Google, you should be the first hit.  Right now you don't even show up.

These last ones are all interesting.  I have never played with phantom provinces, or being able to veto stuff.  The timeout thing sounds like a good idea.

I think the URL not showing up is just because the site is brand new.  playdominion.com won't link here because they are the old company that lost the license, so I doubt they will want to do anything to help this implementation...  I know the owner of isotropic has been emailed though.  It was also in the email they sent out to all of the existing MF users.

[mrfiat]

>>    * Ability to exclude certain cards.

> Just mark those cards as unfamiliar and set max unfamiliar cards to 0 in your settings

Doesn't work.  I have Possession marked unfamiliar and max unfamiliar cards set to zero.  I still am
getting the Possession in my kingdoms using "Good Match"

> Public room with all players in it.  Ability to chat with anyone.

Why wouldn't you want this?  We had this on Isotropic and on Making Fun.  People used it all the time.  To talk about problems with the server, to discuss the cards, etc...

[twasa]

* Way to sort the Tables List by age of game, # of players, and rating of player.

I think a filter would do better. I would never join a table that allows for up to 6 players.

* Public room with all players in it.  Ability to chat with anyone.

Sounds a bit like MF's global chat. Seeing "poop" repeatedly being posted and getting a ding! to draw attention to it, was quite annoying. Maybe a personal chat request with a compulsory topic and the option to decline could work for me.

* Ability to exclude certain cards.

This is planned with personal lists of cards that are liked or disliked.

* Equal # of turns option.  (i.e. phantom provinces)

Surely not, that's not Dominion. :-)

[mrfiat]

>>    * Equal # of turns option.  (i.e. phantom provinces)

> Surely not, that's not Dominion. :-)

Have you tried it?  Notice I said "option", you wouldn't have to use it...  I think it makes the game better.
It is still the same game.  Varying who goes first by who lost the last game is also not "Dominion", but it also makes the game better.  It worked great on Isotropic. 

The great thing about games is that you don't have to follow the original rules exactly, you can add options that actually improve the game making it more fair if you choose to. 

When I play Dominion with my friends and family we do equal starting hands, phantom provinces (i.e. equal # of turns), and the person that lost last goes first the next time.  If I can do it at home, why can't I have the option to do it online?

[Rabid]

Varying who goes first by who lost the last game is also not "Dominion", but it also makes the game better.

This is in the RL rules:

STARTING PLAYER
Randomly determine the starting player. When playing multiple
games, the starting player is the player to the left of the winner of
the last game. If there was a tie in the previous game, randomly
choose the starting player from the players that didn't win. Players
take turns in clockwise order.

[dscarpac]

Exactly how many phantom Provinces do you put in the pile?

[allanfieldhouse]

Exactly how many phantom Provinces do you put in the pile?

Yeah, that seems like a huge issue. If there's only one province left, but each player could afford 3 per turn, the first player could never buy it because then the second player could easily win with 3 provinces. Or you could set the number of provinces to...dang, where's that Dominion Variants subforum when you need it.

Seriously though, that's a huge rule change that isn't real Dominion. You can play however you want IRL, but the official online version of Dominion should use the official rules for the most part.

[LibraryAdventurer]

Seriously though, that's a huge rule change that isn't real Dominion. You can play however you want IRL, but the official online version of Dominion should use the official rules for the most part.

It that case, there shouldn't be VP counters. (They should at least be off by default.)

(I could also comment on how Black Market is handled but that change has been officially approved by Donald.)

[yed]

Seriously though, that's a huge rule change that isn't real Dominion. You can play however you want IRL, but the official online version of Dominion should use the official rules for the most part.

It that case, there shouldn't be VP counters. (They should at least be off by default.)

(I could also comment on how Black Market is handled but that change has been officially approved by Donald.)

I think point counter was also approved by Donald. But maybe I remember it wrong.