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About (2) - people wanting only specific sets are just gonna have to deal with waiting longer for their particular matching conditions to be met. Yes they want fewer expansions to learn, but as in (4), "more people want to play with all the cards they can get their hands on". If you make Rated respect Familiar cards, we might end up with a bunch of Gold subscription players in here complaining about how many games they're forced to play with Base + Intrigue and how they paid money to not have to do that.

Also, if people are playing *rated* games while they're still learning mechanics and having their first experiences with some cards, they're gonna have a bad time.


It seems more a "new/learning players" thing rather than a Familiar-cards-in-Rated thing.

A/ if campaigns were implemented, players would have a natural arc to the introduction to new cards

B/ if the AI was better then new players could crank out a ton of semi-enjoyable games, see & learn all their cards

Is this just "Familiar" cards? It sounds like what familiar cards are supposed to be there to do; decline familiarity with everything except the base set (or Base + Intrigue + Seaside).

http://forum.shuffleit.nl/index.php?topic=1100.0

What are Familiar Cards?
Familiar Cards are a new feature of this Dominion client that is still being worked on. For now, if you go to the Familiar Cards tab in the main menu, you can mark what cards you are familiar with. In certain games (Table games by default, Quick Matches, etc) you will not play with more than a few cards you have not marked as Familiar Cards. The intent here is so that players learning the game will not be overwhelmed with a kingdom full of cards they know nothing about.


Also: the campaigns were cool, especially when they threw in extras like "Free throne room at the beginning of each turn" or "your starting deck is 10 Feasts" (though Empires did throw in a whole lot more variation in VP).