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I'm pretty sure I had a few months left on my subscription, but poof, it disappeared today. can you help me investigate?

This is a variant on the crown/villager issue, but if you have only crowns in your starting hand, you can't play them as actions (it skips right to the buy phase). This is normally fine, but if you have the +card token on crown, it is sad times, because crown crown crown is happiness personified. See game #26237820, turn 16 I think.

At the end of #19733166, I donated, trashing 5 hunting grounds, and gaining all the estates and a few dutchies.

That left 3 empty piles. But the game didn't end.

Is this a bug, or does the game not end if you end piles between turns?

I like the Scavenger at http://dominion.lauxnet.com/scavenger/.

It seems to have been down for a few days (at least). Is it gone?

I don't know if this is a bug or not, or maybe just a quirk.
When you play black market, you can play your treasures. If you play a crown as one of the treasures, you can use it as a throne room to play another action in the middle of the black market action, even if you have no actions remaining. That doesn't seem right, since you were playing the crown as a treasure.
See turn 18 of #14360895 to see my doing that against Lord Rattington.

Is this the intention of the Donald ? The wording of the card would suggest it's permitted, but it seems that the intention was that the top parts is "when played as an action" and the bottom is "When played as a treasure."

Don't know what happened here, but the game was good times until all the sudden the interface went crazy. Game #7608202. My opponent asked for a reasonable undo, which I allowed, and after that all cards were reading double. At one point, there were negative 4 silk roads in the supply! See photo.

Anyway, I asked for an undo because I couldn't see an inheritanced pawn in my hand while playing a shantytown. My opponent allowed is (I think), and it reverted 5 or 6 turns. Eventually, we just stopped playing. I resigned, and he might have, too, for all I know.

It had BM and Inheritance, which seems to be a recipe for excitement.

I had $5 and a watchtower in hand, and bought a cache. I don't have a game number, but it's probably not critical here because it's an interface confusion, not a bug. It wasn't completely obvious which card I was gaining when I had to decide whether to trash. I wound up trashing cache/copper and keeping a copper (instead of trashing copper/copper). I suspect that if I had read closely, I could have done it right, but it wasn't obvious, and i did it wrong.

This problem was compounded by my opponent refusing to allow an undo (which appalled me), but I thought I'd report that it's not entirely clear what's happening. I think showing a picture of the card to be gained would be better,
so you don't need the log to see what's happening, and so that all players would know what's being trashed and what's not.

Sorry I don't have a game log here, but in a recent game I Developed a 5-cost card in a game with no 6-cost cards besides gold, and it immediately topdecked a gold (without giving me an option), putting it second from the top. The other card I gained (which was, I believe, a fortress) was topdecked afterwards. It appeared that, since there was only one 6 coin card, I didn't get to choose the order of topdecking.

If this is a bug, it would presumably occur in any scenario with only one X-cost card.

A note for Stef and the other developers:

As you're working on campaigns and bots, it occurs to me that building campaigns may help you build better bots. For example, you may have a campaign board with NV/bridge, and you may have the bot try Big money (so that the player can win with NV/bridge). But you might also have the bot do NV/bridge so that it's harder for the player. Once you've done that, it seems trivial to add to the bot a line of code that looks for NV/bridge in a kingdom, and pursues that strategy if it's there. When you have another board with worker's village/goons/WT, you might have the bot use that approach. You can then add the bot code to look for that combo. Depending on which combo is stronger, you can prioritize one or the other.

This thinking may not be limited to combos. When you build a board with torturer and trading post, you might teach the bot to gain the trading post and take curses willy-nilly. Then you might decide that the bot should *not* discard in games in which it's easy to trash, unless discarding helps his hand (draw to X, etc.). You can then selectively employ this intelligent thinking to make better and worse bots.

You might also be able to ask the community to build some campaign kingdoms for you. That would save you some effort, once you have the structure and UI set up.

Just a thought from a squire.

In game 3154258, I bought a Mint with potion in hand (I think). It trashed my potion. My intention was not to play the potion so that it wouldn't be trashed. I didn't notice it until my potion didn't show up for a few turns.

In any case, if it happened how I think it did, it's a bug with mint. Also possible that I clicked autoplay, but I suspect maybe I didn't, so I report it.

Rules question and a bug.

Rules question: If I get possessed and my possessor plays outpost, who gets the outpost turn?

Bug: I got double possessed (or worse), and my possessor outposted during my turn (it was an ugly game for me), and the game asked me whether to outpost or possess again first, but there was no place to click which to choose. We had to resign the game, which, frankly, was a blessing. Either it's a card bug or an interface issue (i.e., I couldn't find the place to click "continue".

Thanks.

Squirezucco

I played a game with Golem & Royal Carriage the other day, and it was well nigh impossible to determine whether I was Royal Carriaging my Golem or the second action called my by Royal Carriage. A better interface would indicate which action I were positioned to Royal Carriage (or passing on Royal Carriaging).

I suspect there are other actions for which this would be confusing with RC (Throne Room & KC come to mind).

Is Goko Salvager dead? If so, is there an equivalent way now to look at the log from a ShuffleIt game? I'd like to review some interesting games (both games I've played and other league games), but I don't know if that can be done anymore. It seems like I can only look at games through the end of MF.

Thanks.

Squirezucco

When I play a bot, and the bot ends the game, I don't get to see the turn. I have to read the log to figure out what happened. I think I read that this is due to the bot, by default, playing instantaneously, rather than stepping through its turn. I think it would be preferable to show the turn at some reasonable speed so that the player knows what's happening, and then having the table visible for a few seconds before going to the end of game screen.

It can be especially confusing if the bot ends the game unexpectedly... (as in, it swindles a province into a province, and then forfeits because it is mathematically impossible for it to come back, or if you don't notice that it can three-pile end, and all of a sudden the game is over).

Hi. I'm trying to log in (it's remarkable how many people logged in within minutes of midnight). When I put in my username (squirezucco), it tells me "wrong username or password" even if I click "Forgot my password." If I go to the new account screen and put in all my info, it tells me "this username is reserved." Is the name already in the database? If so, can I have my password reset? I don't want to lose the one set I purchased (Intrigue).

Please help. I've had to go several minutes without online Dominion, and I'm not sure if I can make it for a whole day. :o

Squirezucco