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It's working again!

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No, that's actually correct. Once you are done with Diplomat the first time, you are down to 5 cards in hand (from your original 6), so still meet the conditions for Diplomat's Reaction to use it a second time.

The reason why you can use the same Diplomat a second time is that nobody except you can know if it is the same Diplomat!

For ease of use, the game has you reveal and then use Reactions one at a time, then allow you to use more Reactions if you have them. In this play model, no other player can generally know if you had 2 Diplomats originally, or you drew another one from the first Diplomat Reaction use or you only ever had one Diplomat at all.

And in order to not have Dominion turn into a detective game where a player tries to reconstruct the previous turns to "prove" that the other player could not have had 2 Diplomats, the rule is that for Reactions from hand there is just no limit to how often one can be used. Other triggered effects from publicly visible sources can only be used once, because it's clear for every player how many of it there are.

The "newer" style of Rections that play themselves as part of the Reaction process limit themselves because they move out of the hand. The "older" style that just reveal themselves sometimes limit themselves (the condition on Diplomat is at some time no longer going to be satisfied), while others can in theory uselessly be revealed again and again (Moating an attack 100 times is not any different from doing it once).

I'm sorry to hear that, but unfortunately it's hard to find the reason for such spurious and narrow problems.  :(

Again, thanks for trying things out. This is something I've seen a few times, that problems go away for totally unclear reasons. I think one server was restarted yesterday, but AFAIK nothing more series happened here.

Thanks for the reports on what you tried. It seems that for whatever reasons the connection is slowed done, but likely not on either end but in between.

Can you try the following command in a command window (assuming Windows, it should be the same on a Mac, AFAIK)

ping dominion.games

That establishes a simple connection to the site and measures the time until the server anserers. I get times around 100ms, which isn't great for action games but not a problem for Dominion.

Edge is just another browser using the same core as Chrome, so the differences are likely small. The Chrome problem you mentioned seems to have sorted itself out, I got a few "It works now" posts, and no new reports.

Generally lag is a server side problem, then it hits everybody; or connection related, where for whatever reasons the packets are reaching the server and/or your device with a delay. I'm not sure what it is in this case. Are you playing vs. a bot or other human players?

Done (both)!

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Most common problems for something like this:

1) Your subscription ran out! You can check in the "Account" tab, any expansion in color you have access to, anything in greyscalce you don't have. Ending dates in YYYY-MM-DD format are below the expansions for more detail.

2) Check that you are including rated games in your automatch settings. Unrated games are less popular in automatch.

3) Check that you have "Extra Menagerie" not checked. Those again are again less popular.

4) Did you significantly change the time you play? North America has AFAIK the biggest user base, so when players from there sleep or are at work/school, attendence will drop.


If 2) or 3) are violated, they are likely missclicks you did, as that didn't change recently. If none of that is true, I recommend posting a screenshot of your matchings tab here in a followup post, so I can look what else may be off.

You are not the first to fall for that, including myself. Since nothing in the game can take away your buys (well, except Mission for card buys), this is an unexpected behaviour for most players.

From a glance through your game log, what happenened several times is that you bought Villa, which then moved to your hand. You played the Villa then using Way of the Horse. This leaves you at 0 buys!

You used your "given" buy on the Villa, but since you didn't play it for its own effect, you don't have any buys now. Since you didn't use any other means of getting +buy on those turns (Hamlet, Pawn, Charm), once all your Treasures are in play, there is nothing else you can do (not even buy a Copper), so the game is automatically continued, which means the turn ends (unless there are Night cards or some Clean-up effects need to be handled).

This is IMO the reason Villa (and Cavalry) gives +Buy in the first place: Your second buy phase is pretty useless without any buys, which you just experienced!

Done!

Thanks for the replies!

As far as I'm aware nothing was done on the servers, except fixing the "rating not updating on the in-game leaderboard", and it seems unlikely this had something to do with it.

Thanks for the report, EntropySpark!

That behaviour is intendend. If responding to an undo request was counting towards the responder's time, it would allow a malicious player to repeat such a request again and again and indefinitely stall a game, each time resetting their own time limit. A paused timer is not really much better, as it would force the responder to click again and again on "Deny" in such a case, until the 4 min are over.

From your description it looks like your opponent knew that and actively exploited you not knowing this, which is obviously unsporting conduct. If you remember the game number and/or the opponent's name, I suggest you make a report here:

https://tinyurl.com/dominion-abuse


Then we can see if a player does that repeately and take actions.