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You can buy actions out of the Black Market deck after getting hit by Deluded.

[New user experience:]

Hi Stef!

Shuffle IT username: Dan Brooks

New user experience:
1. An offline client, allowing you to play campaigns against bots
15. Tutorial on how to play Dominion
16. Tutorial on how to play dominion online.
8. More translations (to what language?)

It would be nice to have a process for introducing new users to the game.

For example, maybe a user gets a referral to the site, creates an account, and plays through a tutorial that explains the rules and how the site works.

Although I wouldn't use this personally, it would be nice for introducing friends to the site and growing the player base.


Mobile version:
11. Android app (or just improved compatibility?)
12. iPhone app (or just improved compatibility?)

The current site is 80% usable on mobile, I play/unrated games on my iphone. With a few tweaks to the layout, I think that the site could be fully useable on mobile. An app release is lower priority for me than some other features.


Moderation:
14. Improved moderation (dealing with chat abuse, slowplayers, ...)
This has gotten better for me in the past few months, although it would be really satisfying to have a "report player" button for when it does happen.


Tournament/Friend Features:
4. Options for timed games
5. Options for undo settings
6. Online mini-tournaments; the option to easily create one for you & your friends.
7. Option to invite specific players to your table

Standardized/automated tournament settings would be really cool. I would play in these for sure.


Game Log:
9. Better animations when cards are gained/bought/played/...
10. Better visualization of split piles, Archive/Crypt contents, Prince targets, ...
10. Option to hide the log
13. Downloadable game logs

The system as it's currently implemented works, and I don't see much need to change it. I definitely miss downloadable text game logs, and it would be nice to see those come back.


Bots:
2. A bot with a setting for different play styles
3. A strong bot.

Over half my games are against bots, and I think it would be interesting to have a strong one.

I'm working with a few other grad students to build a competitive dominion AI.

Our initial baseline is a base set big money bot that we built a few years ago that focuses on buying good cards (Witch, Gold, Militia, Laboratory, Market, Festival, Smithy, Silver) and Provinces.

Now, we are putting together a model for playing engines. To begin the description, the basic stats on cards, like +2 action, +2 cards or +2 coins, are labeled. The expected draw of a deck is computed, under the assumption that draw cards are evenly distributed through the deck. The expected payload (coins, buys, gains, attacks) is computed based on the number of cards drawn and the availability of actions.

In the mid-game, the model is looking to maximize payload per turn. Early game, trashing is valued at a rate of 3 coins/card. Late game, points become important, as well as checking for pileouts (based on expected payload).

There are two areas in which we are interested in using learning techniques. The first is making tricky play order/buying decisions, such as deciding what card to remodel. Making the decision a few different ways and playing out a bunch of games is probably the best way to figure out spots like this. The second is for optimizing overall bot parameters, such as greening time, for a particular board or a set of boards.

Anyhow, if you're interested in discussing more, let me know.

The 2017 Dominion Online Championships were quite an exciting tournament. With a turnout of 389 players, it was the biggest dominion tournament ever, as well as the debut of new tournament-friendly features on the new dominion client.

To make it far in a tournament, you have to play well. Some games are one from clever plays on both sides. But some games are also decided by P1 advantage and shuffle luck. You need a little luck at precisely the right time, and boy did that happen here.

In the semifinals, I was down 1-3 against jsh357, then won a couple of engine games to force a game 7. I thinned down with Donate, built up a Plaza/Witch engine, and won the Plaza split, partially at least, due to P1 advantage.

Then in the finals, I was down 1-3 against Mercury444F, then won a couple of engine games to force a game 7. I thinned down with Remake/Bonfire, built up a Plaza/Witch engine, and won the Plaza split, partially at least, due to P1 advantage.

Recording of my matches (including the finals) are up on youtube here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfrY5CAun1zLiG3FfOrgRxzNAirHJIPVH

A big thanks to Shuffle IT for hosting the tournament. Another big thanks goes out to the moderation team -  drsteelhammer, assemble_me, Deadlock39 and irrationalE.

And finally, a big thanks to the community for coming out and competing, spectating and discussing. It was great to see so many people excited about competitive dominion come together for this event.

See you next year!
-Dan Brooks

Dan Brooks 3.5 - 0.5 Gamesou

All games rated

My perspective here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pz6V8aiYpY
Twitch perspective here: https://go.twitch.tv/videos/187960506

Dan Brooks 4 - 2 RTT

Thanks for the match

Round of 64 match vs. Skumpy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRBVITqu8xE

Dan Brooks 4 - 2 Skumpy

All games rated and uploaded to youtube

Thanks for the games!

Round of 128 match between Dan Brooks and Harley_Beckett
https://www.youtube.com/embed/RO32WYA89P4

Dan Brooks (3.5) wins vs Harley_Beckett (1.5)

Games were rated and will be posted in the game reports thread

Thanks for the great match Harley!

Round of 256 vs ryanwnzl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz_nwzRIK0o

Encountered the same issue in a couple of games with Bryan today

We used undo to turn 0. Maybe that was involved?

Dan Brooks 4 - 0 Ryanwnzl (all rated)

Thanks for the games!

On Possession/Baths boards, each Possession turn Bath triggers for 2VP tokens which should be transferred to the player who played Possession according to recent rulings (below).
http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=16860.msg674518#msg674518
http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/index.php/Baths

Online it appears to be the opposite. I played a game where the player getting possessed took the Baths tokens.

On 8.4 - perhaps the games could be recorded and streamed later? This helps with scheduling and protects against sniping