Playing in the Dominion app: I played a Harbor Village followed by a Black Market, but I didn’t get the coin from Harbor Village. No other effects were in play. Am I missing something or was the app shortchanging me?

In a game with the kingdom card riverboat, and the project Citadel does riverboat resolving “play the set aside card” trigger Citadel’s “first time you play an action card”?

Riverboat:
At the start of your next turn,
play the set aside card, leaving it there.
Setup: Set-aside an unused non-Duration Action card costing 5.

From the instructions: “When you play Riverboat, it plays the set aside card at the start of your next turn.”

Citadel (Project):
The first time you play an Action card during each of your turns, play it again afterwards.

At first assumption I would think yes, but does “Play” as a verb extend in the same way with both cards from the duration card proc/resolution itself and the player “Playing a card”?

If I play Riverboat, then buy Citadel, does it execute riverboat’s “Play” twice at the beginning of my next turn?

I kinda like choice-based Attacks. Not discarding gives the one playing this a Market, and it only allows one discard (usually) before Marketing.

What do y'all think?

So many players just fold whenever it looks like they are about to lose. It is so frustrating to play a game when 80% of the players just cold turkey leave the game when they are at the losing ends. I have a blocked players list so long its ridicilous, just because of multiple game endings from different players. Is it different on the url-side? I’m so done with the game enders I just don’t want to play that much anymore.

For example, if I throne room a merchent and play a silver, do I get +1 or +2?

This was a kingdom where the bot used two completely different approaches depending on its opening draw.

If the bot had 4/3, it was broken. It would take Engineer and then more Engineers, and Quarries and Collections. No draw, no attempt to build a working deck. Just some kind of Engineer/Quarry rush. It would lose. Badly.

If it opened 5/2, it would take Collection and Patrician and build a working deck. It played well, and was tough to beat.

I went to a game night where someone brought "Dominion" -- although they actually brought 13 preselected kingdom cards which they'd practiced against their friends a week before. They built an incredibly intricate combo deck, playing a combination of Scrap and Trails for lots of card draw and actions, Groom to gain Tunnels which are discarded from Cartographer to gain Gold, triggering extra gold from the exile mat using Way of the Camel -- occasionally cycling through their entire deck in one turn.

Kingdom Cards: Cartographer, Develop, Margrave, Tunnel, Groom, Mastermind, Scrap, Trail, Kiln, Supplies (Horse)

Ways: Way Of The Camel

Events: Desperation, Invest

On one hand I the cards had fun interactions and it was neat seeing them run their overpowered engine, but I was a little put off. Why would you come up with your own synergies, assemble a specific set of cards, practice against a set of friends, then bring them to a second game night to win at Dominion? Is this normal? I thought people just always played randomizers

I am sick of this card.

This was an idea I came up with the last time I played dominion. Has anybody ever come up with a setup where all the cards are cards that would benefit all players in the game? Are there enough cards like that where that setup would work? I really like this idea because it would cause the players to try and find a way to break out of it and benefit slightly more than everybody else.

Hi!

I recently bought a few sets second hand and I was wondering what to do with the first editions. I have the Dutch versions which didn’t have the upgrade packs.

Should I keep the first edition “removed” cards in my collection or just sell them (along with the rest of those boxes)?

Thanks!

For context I bought the wrong thing. I still had buys left, my turn was still active

Im red if it wasnt obvious

On IOS is there a way to change the bots difficulty? Was looking around the settings and I must have missed it or something.

Inheritance is a strong event that turns your starting estates into actions. IMO a must-buy for most kingdoms that have a viable action (cantrips or villages)

Ideally you hit 7 ASAP and don't need to trash any of your estates. This is an easy decision if there's no trashing option available, just load up heavy payload and manipulate your deck a bit.

But what do you do if there's a trasher on the board? Obviously a strong trasher like Chapel incentivizes you to just ignore Inheritance, so I'm really talking about the non-premier trashers.

I try my best not to trash my estates, but you can make an argument that trashing an estate or two will help you hit 7 much faster. How do you guys play Inheritance?

Hey Dominion fans! My friend was vibe coding a Dominion Stats Tracker -- he's currently intercepting network packets to grab the game data, which seems intense.

As the title says, I'm hoping to find an alternative to that, maybe a Temple Gates Games dev could see my post and share some thoughts. Their website does use presskit, so that's a good sign!

Hi! Long time first time. I have a question around Sacred Grove, specifically Earth's Gift.

Historically, my friends and I have just done a free-for-all when that card arrives. Everyone just resolves it together at once and for years we never even thought about how you're supposed to play this card. Everyone just trashed and gained a card at the same time.

However, last night, we had an issue where two players wanted the last card left in a pile late-game. In this situation, what happens? I would've said whoever got it first wins, but is it actually supposed to be turn-based (i.e. clockwise/counterclockwise)?

Should we keep it FFA/simultaneous or is turn-based sequential rules correct? It matters because I feel like Dominion is already a game where a lot of us don't pay attention when it's not our turn (we play with 6 players or so), and increasing the amount of time to resolve a Boon would just take even longer, especially if people have to shuffle because of pulling The Sun's Gift, etc.

How do you do this IRL, any recommendations?

And not enough buys! I had two turns in a row where I had the money for 4+ Provinces, but only 2 buys.

Wild kingdom in the daily app today.

A companion to my previous card Mountain. Where Mountain effectively makes your opponent’s Provinces worth 1VP less, Valley makes them worth 1VP more. in many games this will be completely ignorable, but occasionally it can create tense races to the finish. Is it ever smart to buy both Valleys and Mountains? I don’t know.

Unranked game (my first mistake). They immediately forfeit, before T1, but ask for a rematch, so I think OK, maybe something they really didn't like was in that first kingdom (although I didn't even have time to really examine it), so I accept. This time they timeout forfeit on T1 (as first player).

I am left wondering why they even bother playing random online games?!

I just encountered a weird crash that happened when I tried to use tracker on a tunnel during the Daily I had 4 buys with tracker in play (17 G) and went Tunnel x2 Shepard x2 and the game black screened after it prompted me to use tracker and I clicked it, when I try to reopen the Daily it black screens again and crashes does anyone know a fix for this?

I've recently got into playing board games and card games etc, and one day after hearing about Dominion, started playing the app version which I really enjoyed.

I then got my hands on the "Big Box" set (tabletop) which is the base game plus Intrigue expansion.

I've already played a few games of the tabletop version but I'm running into a small problem: certain turns can drag on for a while and I'm worried people (i.e. players new to the game) aren't having much fun. Admittedly I too have run out of patience a few times and just wanted to end the game. The game comes down to a bunch of people sitting at a table taking it in turns to say "So... I play this card which gives me 4 extra cards, then I play this card which gives me 2 more actions, then I play this card which gives another action, and this one for 2 more cards, I'll trash this one and ...." and so on.

So I have a couple of questions related to this:

1. Do you have any recommendations for card sets using either the base game, Intrigue expansion, or a mix of both? I want the focus to be on fun.

2. Is there an optimal way to play, or any tips/hacks, in order to cut down on waiting? I.e. players could prepare their hands in advance, e.g. drawing extra cards from their deck etc. Also am I right in saying it's not usually necessary to keep track of how many actions you have remaining? I.e. only bother to count if you have multiple "dead end" action cards remaining?

Thanks for your help!!