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Yes, from the Official FAQ (can see it here http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Prince)

"If you don't discard the Action then you stop playing it with Prince; Prince at that point is just set aside doing nothing for the rest of the game. That won't normally happen but will happen for example if the Action is a Feast or Mining Village and you trashed it, or if it's a Duration card and so it stayed in play, or if it's a Madman and was returned to its pile, or if it's an Island and was set aside, or if it's a card you put back on your deck with Scheme."

If you're making your own table to play the games, you don't really want to use Familiar Cards to do this (play Base only). If you use "Advanced Options" --> "Select Kingdom Cards" you can control which expansions are used.

Against the bots, you can use the "Familiar Cards" option to further restrict the card pool. Just choose which cards you're willing to play with in the "Familiar Cards" tab, then create a table and click "Advanced Settings" and enable "Respect Familiar cards".

I believe "Unrated" matchmaking also respects familiar cards.

While the exact feature isn't implemented, it's still relatively easy to do in practice.

If you add a bot to your table at the beginning, you will not be disturbed by anybody who isn't looking for you. Once all players are there as spectators, the bot can be kicked and specactors can join as players.

You should be able to prevent non-friends from joining as spectators. That feature isn't available at all.

And even better would be the ability to have a table password or the like (invites) to restrict the joining further.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUrJF3jfHxk&t=6s

is a youtube video of the Final.

I still have Questions about the Rules. Is the Championship played with Colonies and Platinum ?          If I lose my first six games, I'm out then?

The default for kingdoms is random selection from all expansions, which includes the normal random selection for Shelters and Colony/Platinum. The players in a match can deviate from this if they both agree. For more detail see section 7 of the rules (http://forum.shuffleit.nl/index.php?topic=3509.0).

Yes, it's a single elimination bracket so if you lose your first match then you are out.

That kingdom features the card Shepherd, which comes with a copy of the Heirloom Pasture in your starting deck. The Pasture is worth a VP per Estate in your deck, so buying an Estate increases your score by 2.

http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Shepherd
http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Pasture

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Did my dreams finally come true with this expansion?  I was playing against 2 bots in a Renaissance only game, and at game end the 2 bots had significantly different decks!

This was certainly just differences in shuffles leading to different decks, there's still only 1 bot.

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Try opening dominion.games in another browser or incognito mode. Put in your login credentials, but don't click login, instead click "Kick & Resign" below the login buttons.

Without a game number there's not much more to be done to investigate, other than check the interaction in another game, which I did and it is working correctly. Game #15207305 - the Walled Village stays out with Prince until the end of turn 10 when I choose to topdeck it and afterwards the Prince effect stops.

Note that when you are offered the chance to use the Walled Village ability the interface is two buttons "Topdeck" and "Discard", if you want to keep Princing the Walled Village you need to choose "Discard". If you pick "Topdeck" then the ride is over, that's my best guess as to what happened in your game (without knowing anything else).

This is likely a gotcha due to Walled Village autoplay (you can check under 'Options' -> 'Autoplay Options' and see if Walled Village is set to "Always Topdeck"). If you Prince a Walled Village, make sure to turn off the Walled Village automatic topdecking by right clicking on it.

If you turn off the autoplay and never choose to use the Walled Village ability, it will keep working with the Prince.

This should be resolved now.

Not sure if this is the place to put this but we were going to rematch if agsuch resigned and I'm having tons of trouble ending games. 

So "agsuch - sorry!! I was trying to get back!"

Just wanted to let them know I didn't do it on purpose.  I think I'm going to have to reboot and root around in here because it's happening with every game in the last hour or two.  I've tried the kick and kick/resign combo as well.

There was a problem with connecting to the metaserver which caused some login issues and prevented joining the post game lobby sometimes, but it should be resolved now.