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Post by Doug » Thu Apr 28, 2022 4:49 pm

I thought a "harridan" was a lady warrior or lady pirate, but apparently it has an "old lady" connotation as part of the meaning

This is too bad because I had thought that "Harridans of the Caribbean" would be a fun name for a game lol. But not if if implies old worn-out ladies
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Post by rianalnn » Thu Apr 28, 2022 11:00 pm

Niche market, perhaps!

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Post by Blissful » Sun May 01, 2022 4:30 pm

Doug wrote: Mon Jan 10, 2022 12:33 am If I get Tabletop Simulator, can I put the assets of a game I invented into it, and then play that game online, or does such a thing involve writing computer scripts and so on
did you invent a game? thats cool
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Blissful wrote: Sun May 01, 2022 4:30 pm
Doug wrote: Mon Jan 10, 2022 12:33 am If I get Tabletop Simulator, can I put the assets of a game I invented into it, and then play that game online, or does such a thing involve writing computer scripts and so on
did you invent a game? thats cool
We are playtesting a game about pirates

I first invented this game 10 years ago, but that was a less well-formed version
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The Eastern Empires Color Pie (lol)

Blue is the color of Arts. It prevents damage from many calamities, although every color does this at least a little, but it can also make it harder or even impossible for other players to attack you. Its advances include Diplomacy, Music, Rhetoric, and Politics.
Green is the color of Science. It enables certain special capabilities. Its advances include Astronavigation, Coinage, Medicine, and Library.
Yellow is the color of Religion. This is the religion of enlightenment but also of conquest, and can help you to take over other players' territories. Its advances include Theology, Monotheism, and Universal Doctrine, but also more peaceful related advances such as Mysticism.
Red is the color of Civics. It directly creates the military state. Its advances include Military and Provincial Empire, but also Public Works and Democracy.
Orange is the color of Crafts. It can ramp up your civilization. Its advances include Mining, Pottery, Roadbuilding, and Trade Routes.

Since each time you buy advances in Eastern Empires, the discounts you will get in buying more advances of the same colors increases, players are incentivized to specialize in a few colors. The Magic analogy is so obvious that you can easily imagine that Arts + Civics = Boros, or Science + Religion + Civics = Grixis when you're playing. It's basically true
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Post by Doug » Thu Jun 02, 2022 6:46 pm

The Nemesis Lockdown board game should be on Steam soon if not already
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Post by Crunchums » Sat Jul 02, 2022 2:20 am

i've been playing Spirit Island (the digital edition)
it's a coop game but you can play it solo and just QB everyone
so far i have played a few 1-player games and one 2-player games
if i were to play with other people because i would have to choose between not trying / pissing everyone off by tanking too hard, but instead i can just enjoy QBing it all on my own and not annoy anyone
it's so complicated : S
once i got the hang of it i've been winning extremely comfortably, but it still takes me a long time to figure out what i am supposed to do, and also you can amp up the difficulty independent of the complexity
if you like complicated "what is the right play" puzzles then i recommend it
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Post by Yoss » Fri Jul 08, 2022 7:17 pm

Khaos wrote: Tue Nov 23, 2021 9:02 pm if only there were one game we've all played for years and years and years
Mafia >:3

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Yoss wrote: Fri Jul 08, 2022 7:17 pmMafia >:3
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Post by Doug » Sat Jul 09, 2022 4:46 pm

A few of you played like 8 games of Cthulhu Wars, I think
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Post by Doug » Wed Aug 03, 2022 5:22 pm

I don't suppose any of you have ever played Paths of Glory or For the People, have you? These are GMT games about WWI and the Civil War respectively, based on the Twilight Struggle system
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Post by pterrus » Thu Aug 25, 2022 8:35 pm

My copy of Antematter arrived. Did anyone else get in on that? This is the Dr. Magic Cards game. It's a space cargo game with a round of Texas Hold Em after every turn cycle. Will be tricky to get to the table but I will certainly try.

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Post by Doug » Thu Aug 25, 2022 8:48 pm

I was wondering about that, let us know how it is!
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Post by Crunchums » Thu Aug 25, 2022 9:24 pm

pterrus wrote:Will be tricky to get to the table but I will certainly try.
do you mean like physically or like in terms of finding people to play it with?
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Post by pterrus » Thu Aug 25, 2022 11:42 pm

Crunchums wrote: Thu Aug 25, 2022 9:24 pm
pterrus wrote:Will be tricky to get to the table but I will certainly try.
do you mean like physically or like in terms of finding people to play it with?
I need to find a bunch of nerds who like board games and also know how to play hold em. Playing this with people brand new to hold em does not sound fun. And you'd have to do two rules explanations.

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Post by Skeletor » Fri Aug 26, 2022 2:14 am

i know a great way to teach people hold'em
wow, [you]. that all sounds terrible. i hope it gets better for you

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Post by Rylinks » Fri Aug 26, 2022 2:30 am

pterrus wrote: Thu Aug 25, 2022 11:42 pm
Crunchums wrote: Thu Aug 25, 2022 9:24 pm
pterrus wrote:Will be tricky to get to the table but I will certainly try.
do you mean like physically or like in terms of finding people to play it with?
I need to find a bunch of nerds who like board games and also know how to play hold em. Playing this with people brand new to hold em does not sound fun. And you'd have to do two rules explanations.
my impression was that playing this is actually very different from normal hold-em because the ICM is completely different

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Post by Doug » Fri Aug 26, 2022 2:30 am

The main thing about hold 'em is knowing when to
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Post by Skeletor » Fri Aug 26, 2022 3:12 am

Rylinks wrote: Fri Aug 26, 2022 2:30 am
pterrus wrote: Thu Aug 25, 2022 11:42 pm
Crunchums wrote: Thu Aug 25, 2022 9:24 pm
pterrus wrote:Will be tricky to get to the table but I will certainly try.
do you mean like physically or like in terms of finding people to play it with?
I need to find a bunch of nerds who like board games and also know how to play hold em. Playing this with people brand new to hold em does not sound fun. And you'd have to do two rules explanations.
my impression was that playing this is actually very different from normal hold-em because the ICM is completely different
independent chip model?
wow, [you]. that all sounds terrible. i hope it gets better for you

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Post by Skeletor » Fri Aug 26, 2022 3:17 am

i feel like that can't be what you're talking about and also don't have any clue what other acronym that could be

(the icm in tournament poker is a model for calculating the EV for a given # of chips in a poker tournament given the prize structure and the stack sizes of the players remaining. in cash games a dollar is worth a dollar, but in tournament poker just having a dollar left means you can get a higher prize if someone else goes out before you. and then on the other side of that, say 10 people buy in with 10k dollars and they get 10k in chips, the winner ends up with 100k chips but probably only 50k dollars, so these make correct play pretty different in tournaments vs cash at times. but this doesn't really seem related to the comment)
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Post by Rylinks » Fri Aug 26, 2022 3:35 am

Skeletor wrote: Fri Aug 26, 2022 3:17 am i feel like that can't be what you're talking about and also don't have any clue what other acronym that could be

(the icm in tournament poker is a model for calculating the EV for a given # of chips in a poker tournament given the prize structure and the stack sizes of the players remaining. in cash games a dollar is worth a dollar, but in tournament poker just having a dollar left means you can get a higher prize if someone else goes out before you. and then on the other side of that, say 10 people buy in with 10k dollars and they get 10k in chips, the winner ends up with 100k chips but probably only 50k dollars, so these make correct play pretty different in tournaments vs cash at times. but this doesn't really seem related to the comment)
that is what i mean, and im using it as a general shorthand for how the value of chips changes because of the game

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Post by Rylinks » Fri Aug 26, 2022 3:36 am

specifically in a game with one winner it's the opposite of a tournament: if you have a small number of chips you want to gamble, and if you have many chips you want to play conservatively to take first

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Post by Skeletor » Fri Aug 26, 2022 6:26 am

i guess that just doesn't seem like it makes it any different than holdem. you can learn cash games and go play tournaments or vice versa and ok, you'll be playing some things pretty wrong, but it pales in comparison to like, playing shit hands preflop
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Post by Skeletor » Fri Aug 26, 2022 6:30 am

like i don't think pterrus was looking for people who know how to play holdem to that level. just who know how to play ok
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Post by Skeletor » Fri Aug 26, 2022 6:32 am

Rylinks wrote: Fri Aug 26, 2022 3:36 am specifically in a game with one winner it's the opposite of a tournament: if you have a small number of chips you want to gamble, and if you have many chips you want to play conservatively to take first
isn't it basically the same as a cash game in terms of the icm. each chip is worth a fixed amount of 1st place equity
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Post by Rylinks » Fri Aug 26, 2022 12:24 pm

Skeletor wrote: Fri Aug 26, 2022 6:32 am
Rylinks wrote: Fri Aug 26, 2022 3:36 am specifically in a game with one winner it's the opposite of a tournament: if you have a small number of chips you want to gamble, and if you have many chips you want to play conservatively to take first
isn't it basically the same as a cash game in terms of the icm. each chip is worth a fixed amount of 1st place equity
no because you need to get to a certain number of chips to win. If someone is at 3700, the rest of the field is at 1000, and you win at 4000, the other players should probably all-in preflop blind every hand, because even being an 80-20 dog is better than doing nothing

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Post by Rylinks » Fri Aug 26, 2022 12:29 pm

and playing like a maniac is even more incentivized because

1) there's a 7-2 game that happens ten times as often (1.2% of 72 vs 13% chance of having a grifter in your hand)
2) if you lose all your chips you get 300 chips for free

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Post by Rylinks » Fri Aug 26, 2022 12:59 pm

Rylinks wrote: Fri Aug 26, 2022 12:24 pm
Skeletor wrote: Fri Aug 26, 2022 6:32 am
Rylinks wrote: Fri Aug 26, 2022 3:36 am specifically in a game with one winner it's the opposite of a tournament: if you have a small number of chips you want to gamble, and if you have many chips you want to play conservatively to take first
isn't it basically the same as a cash game in terms of the icm. each chip is worth a fixed amount of 1st place equity
no because you need to get to a certain number of chips to win. If someone is at 3700, the rest of the field is at 1000, and you win at 4000, the other players should probably all-in preflop blind every hand, because even being an 80-20 dog is better than doing nothing
and this extends to more than just this extreme case: if there are four players and everyone is at 2000, then each has a 25% chance to win. If two of these players fold, and the other two get into a coinflip situation, then the remaining players each have a 50% chance to win the game. Even if the all-in were 70-30, the player that's behind would have improved their winning chances from 25% to 30%

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Post by Doug » Fri Aug 26, 2022 1:01 pm

Wait so if I have 250 chips, I lose them on purpose so that I go to 300?
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