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I don't know when this was last expanded, but there are so many expansions now, that cards and events constantly come up I would rather not play. But my lists are full, and I don't want to take anything off.

How about a second row in both categories? Let me ban and dislike 10 cards and 6 events.

I pay for a subscription, and this feels like something that we ought to have.

Another day, it's still broken. What's up. Time to cancel?

Logged in for the first in ages to say the same thing. I can't even play right now. I'm a paying subscriber, but I won't continue to pay if this continues. It's ridiculous.

I hover around 44-45. I think what Mike says is close. I can build engines, identify a strategy and gauge the worth of the events. My issues are advanced strategy and sticking to a plan, as well as reacting to better players and figuring out how to counter what they are doing. I'd also say I am weaker and identifying card synergies than better players.

I have my settings in the game set so that I play mostly better players than me, in the hopes of learning and improving.

Looking at scavenger (http://dominion.lauxnet.com/scavenger/) in the last 50 games, I have wins vs. like 7 50+ players, including a 55. But the issues I mention above make my play inconsistent. The players in their upper 50s seem to be very consistent players to me.

I've learned a lot from Adam Horton's streaming games. I'd recommend watching those.

For some reason on my laptop, the font is Times (I think, some serif font). Everywhere else it's the sans-serif font. I've tried turning off all extensions but that doesn't seem to help - even so both systems have the same setup. Both systems are mac, both using chrome. Anyone know what it might be?

I can play bots now.

With the release of a new set, I am considering a subscription. But I am little confused about it all.

It seems like you can already play with all the cards available by choosing "Wait for expansions." What are you getting with the subscription? Does this increase/decrease the amount of available players to play for me at all?

Any other benefit? There seems to be little to know info on what it actually is.

In regard to rating, is there a value to playing out the game vs. resigning? And does that scale depending on the rating of your opponent? Sometimes you know you are beat and you want to get to the next game, but I wonder if this affects your rating.

Generally people who want to rush through a game really don't understand well played games. This was something I had to learn myself. I've never had a well ranked player push me, it's always the lower ranked players.

Yeah, that was it. Thank you.

I'm hoping you folks can help me understand this turn. There were no villages on the board. This was the last turn before I lost. The player in question had a Champion on the board, so he got +1 action. But I cannot account for all the actions he played in this turn. It seemed at one point he played four cards in a row, and the action count didn't decrease. He plays 7 smithy's in this hand.

I not necessarily saying anything nefarious is going on, but it didn't make any sense to me at all. What am I missing?

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Cousins to the slow rollers. This guy has done it twice to me now. Disconnects right away, and I have to sit there. What is worse, the game does not give me the option to make him resign - I waited 10+ minutes. So *I* had to resign, and take the hit on my rating - and waste my time.

I know this is an issue Stef doesn't want to deal with, but something needs to be done. It's getting out of hand.

5:20 CST, not loading for me. It's been awhile now. It seems to find a match and then never load. I really hope that doesn't end up being a resign for me :(

I had NO idea there were leagues. Wow. I'll give that a try.

You can have a look in several Youtube videos with the experts playing...

Do you have some links, or some channels to point me to that I could watch? It's a really good way to learn.

On the other hand the 55+ players are about 250 persons – which shows a 2% portion of the whole player range on this platform...the remaining 90%...

I was thinking of this last night. I think it's pretty tough to say 90% -  98% of the player base are poor players. Yes the top 2-10% are the masters, sure. Especially with a game so complex.

Having said all of this, Dominion is a really fun game and I enjoy playing it. I'm really happy the online version made a comeback and is improving. Trying to learn to be better is quite challenging and mentally stimulating.