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Show posts MenuQuote from: Ingix on 12 March 2022, 09:28:43 PM
What is a "known dummy"?
Quote from: Ingix on 27 February 2022, 02:59:55 PM
The Allies expansions includes a new landscape card type Ally (23 different single cards). It also contains Favor counters (with a Favors mat) and a card type Liaison that 9 kingdom cards have. How are they all connected?
Favors are a counters that players can get. In that way they're similar to the Villagers and Coffers you may already know from the Guilds and the Renaissance expansions. You can get as many of them as you can during a game. The Favor mat is presented similar to Coffers and Villagers with an image and a number on it. The empty Favor mat online looks like this:
A card that will give you Favors has the type Liaison. That way, you can easily check when looking at your cards or randomizers if you'll need the Favor counters and the mat. The main difference to Villagers and Coffers is that what Favors are good for is different each game, and that is decided by the Ally!
There can be as many Liaisons in the game as you want. However, there is always only at most 1 Ally in a game. If you have no Liaisons, use no Ally in the game. If you have 1 or more Liaisons, put exactly 1 Ally out.
Finally, if there is an Ally in the game, all players start the game with 1 Favor. If getting more Favors is worth it, is for you to decide!
2 Liaisons:
Underling will give you one Favor each time you play it, and otherwise not get in your way. Broker, however, can make you a serious amount of Favors (or other things that are "nice to have") at once, if you are willing to trash something with high coin cost.
2 Allies:
Peaceful Cult is like most Allies, giving you a way to spend some of your accumulated Favors for a beneficial effect. Here it's getting rid of cards you no longer want. The League of Bankers is an example of a smaller group of Allies that will give you, at some time, a bonus for having Favors. So get enough Favors, and the Bankers will pay you interest.
Quote from: Stef on 04 March 2022, 04:01:16 PMQuote from: artsfols on 03 March 2022, 07:12:13 PMQuote from: kieranmillar on 02 March 2022, 11:35:49 PM
In case you missed it, this week the upcoming expansion Allies is being previewed. You can find the previews explaining the cards here:
http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?board=1.0
You will have an option for automatch called Previews. This lets you play with the previewed cards, but games with previews are forced to be unrated. Turn off the previews option if you want things to go back to normal.
Ah, so I just turn off "previews". Thanks so much. I have just upgraded from silver to gold, so that's 7 or 8 expansions to get under my belt. I have seen notices of a new expansion, but just ignore them as at this point it's of no interest to me. I have an abundance of new cards to learn already.
I'm not sure though why this new preview was not properly integrated into the "Levels" feature? If I play at level 4 and previews is set on, should I not see only cards in the new expansion that are level 4 or lower? I realize this is a question for the developer and not for you particularly. Thanks again for the info.
It will be integrated once the Allies expansion is actually released (which will be next Wednesday).
Previews have rules of their own.
Quote from: kieranmillar on 02 March 2022, 11:35:49 PM
In case you missed it, this week the upcoming expansion Allies is being previewed. You can find the previews explaining the cards here:
http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?board=1.0
You will have an option for automatch called Previews. This lets you play with the previewed cards, but games with previews are forced to be unrated. Turn off the previews option if you want things to go back to normal.
Quote from: AdamH on 26 February 2022, 03:56:43 AMQuote from: artsfols on 25 February 2022, 11:35:04 PM
But if it works well for us, then that means the problems are machine, not design dependent. And that means it just requires fixin' and everyone should be back to normal - i.e no UI or game logic changes required.
This is simply not true.
but even if it was, there needs to be a list of supported devices and the software needs to be tested on all of those devices before it's released. People have paid money for something that works for them and when that is taken away, there is a problem.
Quote from: alibby1152 on 24 February 2022, 05:01:28 AMQuote
Why don't you revert the software to a working version
Were the 10 or so rated games I played today just a figment of my imagination? Worked just fine for me, and outside of the outage last night, I've been playing a working version of Dominion since release
Quote from: leafyscreen on 24 December 2021, 03:22:59 PM
My guess would that you played the game similar to the bots (buy few action cards and a lot of money and start buying victory cards early - a legitimate strategy) and that upset their ability to get their engine going. So they accused you of playing like a bot.