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What happened was that in addition to Skirmisher you had also played Footpad during that turn, so your opponent was already at 3 cards in hand at the point you bought the Attack (another Skirmisher).

Having now successfully looked at the log, I see that I failed to notice the drawing of two cards because of Hirelings, i.e. by the time I looked at my opponent's position he was already back up to five cards.

To load a game, you press the "Load old Game button" in the lower left of the Kingdom Options panel. Then you enter the game id and in 99.9% of cases you either keep the 0 in the decision box (you start the game at the beginning, say you want to replay it with the same starting hands as the previous game to check out another strategy), or you press the "Load from End" button, (which sets the decision to the last decision before the game ended).

The latter is what I did.  It was the next step that defeated me.  Having now experimented again, I see that adding a bot and clicking on Ready is what's required, but when I tried that previously I got a message to the effect that the game had already started, presumably because of something I had previously done wrong.  In fact further experimentation has revealed what I did wrong.  If one clicks on Ready before adding a bot, then when one does so again after adding a bot, one gets the message 'Already started'.

Game #179747495.

I can't remember whether Skirmisher was in the original Kingdom or in the replacement one.

On about turn 20 or 21 I played a Skirmisher and then bought an Attack (I can't remember which one).  As far as I could see at the time, my opponent was not forced to discard down to three cards and did not have any reaction cards.

Sorry that the report is a bit vague.  I'd hoped to check the game log to fill in the details and to confirm that what I thought happened really did happen, but it's been such a long time since I last loaded an old game that I seem to have forgotten the correct technique for doing so.  In this sort of situation it would be really useful to be able to load an old game to step through it rather than loading an old game to play from a decision point.

Thanks for the speedy implementation!

Now that the leaderboard shows the top 50 players, it's always necessary to scroll down to see one's position.  This could be avoided by including the position in the information, e.g. one's mu, etc., shown at the top.

But we are aware that the timer needs finetuning with undos, but we are not sure yet what the best way is (running your clock slower, stopping it completely, giving you time back or something else completely).

Perhaps running both timers?

I might be able to shed some light on one way that people might be able to get into two games...

Having played three games today, I had a look at the leaderboard.  When I returned to Automatch, I saw the message 'Internal error'.  Nonetheless I clicked on 'Start search'.  Nothing seemed to happen.  On the assumption that that was a consequence of the internal error, I logged out and back in.  Aware that some people had been mysteriously getting into two games, I decided to take at Tables, where I found that I was the host of a running game!  I joined the table as a spectator, where I discovered that there now was no host, just an opponent, who almost immediately left the table, though I've no idea whether that was voluntarily or not.  I also have no idea whether that 'game' was scored or not.  Maybe I'll use dombot to find out, though I hate Discord so I'm disinclined to do so.  I then went back to Automatch, successfully found an opponent, and played just one more game.

I suspect that a wise precaution might be to log out if one gets the 'Internal error' message.

It's incorrect to say that Coin of the Realm is never discarded from play.  Are you sure that your Coin of the Realm wasn't returned to its pile when it was discarded from play after you had called it from the Tavern mat?

I didn't get the coffers when I shuffled patrons back into deck when gaining Inn. Inn is in the list of reveals: https://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Reveal

Patron now only triggers if it is revealed in the Action phase ('When something causes you to reveal this in an Action phase (using the word "reveal"), +1 Coffers.'), an errata that was introduced when the Pursue Event came along.

It can be done (manually) by the developer, there is no way this can be between the account holders themselves. I contacted jpsMN via private message to tell them what is needed.

I tried to contact jpsMN but got no response. Too bad this is not easier, as I also have a friend I would like to gift a subscription to.

jpsMN is the person who was wanting to give a subscription, not the developer, so that would explain why you didn't get a response.  My guess is that Ingix will contact you now that he knows that you also want to give a subscription.

I'm fairly sure I've played in games where cards I've discarded for Shepherd have caused a reshuffle.  I'm also fairly certain that I've never been shown my discard pile on such occasions, so I suspect it's going to turn out to be an error in the game log.

My opponent plays a Shepherd, discards some victory cards. There's a line in the game log that says they're looking at all of the cards in their discard pile. There's no reason for this, right? Maybe it's just a game log issue but it seems like there's no reason for Shepherd to be causing a look into the discard pile, right?

Is it perhaps the case that the Shepherd draw is causing a shuffle of the discard pile and your opponent has either bought the Star Chart Project or has favours available to spend on Order of Masons or Order of Astrologers?

No.  The Potion card costs 4, so you can gain a card costing up to 6.

If you were to Displace a Vineyard, which does indeed cost a Potion, you would be able to gain a card costing up to 2+Potion.

I'm already setting 6 as a minimum level, and the games are in fact, nominally, at levels 6+. Where's the "wait for expansions" options? I can't see it anywhere.

Maybe "wait for expansions" isn't shown if one has a core subscription.  I'm fairly sure it exists if one has no subscription, but I'll have to wait for my subscription to expire in four days to confirm that.

I'll revise my prior guess to being that you're being drawn against other players that have specified 6 as the minimum level but do not have a full subscription.  In that scenario the specified levels of the two players would match and it would only be after the pairing had taken place that the system would discover that no cards from level 6 upwards were eligible to be selected.

If the above guess is correct, then players with a core subscription need to be offered a "wait for full subscription" option when setting up their automatch.

My guess is that you are being matched against players that either have no subscription or nothing more than the core subscription.  Perhaps selecting the 'wait for expansions' option and setting 6 as the minimum acceptable level would get round this.  I'm sure Ingix will provide the correct answer.

According to my records Pirate Ship was indeed in level 6.