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Thanks for the update on the situation. If the unblocking works out, it would be nice to get a short description what you did, in case somebody else gets that problem as well. It's the first time I hear that this could be a problem.

First, thanks for your comments, WhyIsTheForumUnsecured.

1) The forum wasn't setup with https. Might be doable, not sure if the effect is worth it.

2) You need to be scrolled up, then the search function can be found at the top:


3) Yes, private tables are a widely requested feature. When you come from the perspective of "I only want to play with my friends", then private tables are the obvious choice, and making them open for others is a secondary concern. Here the way was the opposite: Tables are open by default and since you can kick unwanted players, the step to create private tables hasn't yet been done.

4) To me that's very similar to problem 3. A private table that you can later make public would be the solution for this.
4a) You are right, saving Kingdom card lists is again a feature that would make what you want to do easier.

5) It means the pool from which the cards are chosen is the combined set of cards "owned" by all players. That's the standard for every game.
For unrated games respecting Familiar Cards is a table option. Players can declare a set of cards as familiar (like if they own expansions X,Y and Z as physical cards and haven't seen other cards before). When the game respects familiar cards, it will make an exception to the rule above and restrict the pool from which cards are chosen to the cards that are familiar to all players. The first sentence you quoted is stressing that this will not happen in rated games (this is done so players can't "cook" a kingdom by declaring just the 10 cards they want to play with as familiar.)

From the link: "resigning is the same as losing".

Done!

Yes, it's a known bug, also happens with Scepter and sometimes with Graverobber.

The only thing that matters is 3), your opponent's ratings, and of course the result of the game.

You can find details here in the forum.

But from what you describe it seems you play mostly players that are lower rated than you, so the rating gain from a win is smaller than the rating loss from a loss against that same player.

You might want to take a look at your opponent's rating while you play (both ratings are at the top of the game log). After a game, you can use Dombot on the general Dominion discord (https://discord.gg/KDCWKeG) to check your latest rated games, their opponent's and their rating.

Formally, Edge is not supported, that's why it shows you the message.

Now I just got an update on my Windows 8.1 PC that installed it and it worked OK with the game. But I think there are different versions of Edge out there, some based on Chromium, basically the "engine" of Chrome. It looks like my version is based on Chromium, and your version is still the "original" one that Microsoft made completely themselves.

As a game, Dominion has different demands on text as a normal webpage. The normal webpage doesn't care if a given text is shown with 80 small characters per line and thus say 50 lines, or with 40 big characters per line and thus 100 lines. Since our text needs to fit on the cards, if it is made bigger by the browser to accomodate a larger font size you get the results you posted.

What you can do is to increase the magnification on the game page (CTRL-MouseWheelUp on Firefox/Chrome on Windows). That will not much affect the general game area, but if you right-click a card to see its detailös it will be bigger than normal.

Thanks for the report, kjrayle!

Can you explain what exactly happens? Does he not reach the game page, can he not log in, does he get the "spinning castle" after login (the castle picture of dominion, with the endlesslessly spinning "waiting" curser of Windows), etc?

Thanks for the report, Snapdragon.

Yes, Lord Rat has problems with a few cards, one of them being Wayfarer. The Lord can't decide if to gain a Silver or not.

If something like this happens again, where the bot takes suddenly more than a few seconds to make a decision, then reload the page (CTRL-R). One reason might be that the connection between you and the game is slow or broken, which means the reload takes a long time or hangs as well. Another is that the game is overcrouded and thus laggy, where the same will happen.

In this case, it might be worth to wait, because the problem is not the Lord Rat, but the response time from the game (in other words, the problem would be similar if your opponent was a human player).

But if the game reloads in a usual time interval and it still says "Waiting for Lord Rattington", then it is most likely a situation like here, where the bot AI is stuck. Then I'd personally do another round of CTRL-R and waiting for the reloads to be absolutely sure, then resign the game. The bot is actually stuck, not just taking a long time and you can't change that. So resign and play another game.

Dominion Online has a rating system that works similiarly to the ELO system unsed in chess. If win your rating increases, if you loose it decreases. If you win a against a better player you gain more than if you win against a player of same strength, a.s.o.

Your rating and that of your friends (the players in your friend list) you can see in the leaderboars tab. There is no explicite win/loss ratio or similar stat.

On the general Dominion discord at https://discord.gg/TQhTVB2 there is a helper program "dombot" that can give you more detailed data, like what your lastest rated games were, how they ended etc.

Hi GalaxyMagicDragon,

your card layout is seriously messed up. The Philosopher's stone has the type line with "Treasure" and the cost way too high, so it impacts the text. The other cards also show that the text seems to be too big for the space. It's definitely not supposed to look that way.

From your picture it looks like it's Chrome on Windows 10. I guess this is not an uncommon setup for players, but it's the first time I hear/see about this. Since when does this happen? Was there a recent Chrome update (it broke some things before). I know there was a recent Windows 10 update, but that hasn't been the source of problems before.

Can you check what happens when you use Firefox or Edge?

Hi yoodle,

no problem asking question about things that are unclear to you.

1) No there isn't. It's also not allowed to do in the physical game rules. IIRC, Donald X. (game designer) wanted to prevent people looking through their discard pile for long amounts of time to figure out what cards where still left in their deck (like for Wishing Well).

2) The game will do that automatically for you when you do not use the Kingdom Builder. So you make a table, wait for your friends to join and then start the game. You don't need to press the "Select Kingdom cards" button.

Feel free to ask for clarification or anything else that is unclear.

When you buy Toil, you are in your buy phase. You cannot generally play Action cards in your buy phase, you can only with Toil because it explicitely says so. So you getting more Actions in your buy phase via Bazaar doesn't help you. Your Action phase is over. If you have no more buys, the game will continue to the next player, as you witnessed.

If you could play Actions during your buy phase, Minion for example would be much stronger than it already is. You'd play all but one Minion for coins, then all your Treasures, then play your last Minions for "+1 Action, discard hand, +4 cards" and repeat. That's actually only possible with Capitalism, which makes Minion a Treasure and thus allows it to played during the Action phase.

Done!

There is work being done in that direction. But such a feature needs extended testing before it's put in the client. If you want to report an incident in the forum at the moment, just send me a personal message.