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iOS Online Boardgaming Megathread (Carcassonne, Everything Playdek, & Many More)
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ScrabbleDude
Member
Summoner Wars.
I've also got 3 games of Neuroshima Hex going, and at least one game of Nightfall.
CARCASSONNE UPDATE
Let's keep it going here, Carcers. Gamecocks has completed his domination of the winners bracket, so let's get the losers bracket caught up. Games we're waiting on currently:
Gatekeeper vs Octobot
eznark vs Of All Trades
InaudibleWhispa vs Smiley90
soldat7 vs Got the Shakes
wideawakewesley vs tm24
Let's keep it going here, Carcers. Gamecocks has completed his domination of the winners bracket, so let's get the losers bracket caught up. Games we're waiting on currently:
Gatekeeper vs Octobot
eznark vs Of All Trades
InaudibleWhispa vs Smiley90
soldat7 vs Got the Shakes
wideawakewesley vs tm24
superrobot
Member
Steel Ships FTW!
I literally have no idea what I am doing but when I did something a pop up showed up saying "in only two turns you can have a steel ship!" and I was like, fuck yes I want a steel ship!
Now I am bankrupt.
ScrabbleDude
Member
I have two, but the notifications suck so I always forget.
superrobot
Member
In another game I sold 4 meat and charcoal to the restaurant for 24 Francs.
I got over excited and bought a Wooden ship worth 2 Francs for 14 francs.
Now I am going to lose.
I guess rematch - the rules say enjoy your shared victory I think, but that doesn't work too well for bracket play.
Fight to the death, lads!Got the Shakes
Member
I've tried getting ahold of soldat7 a few times and I got no response. Also sent him a friend request a week or so back so I could start our Carc game, and I don't believe he accepted it.
Gatekeeper
Member
Reported about 9 days ago. Octobot won 101-76
Thank you sir, got it now.
If you don't hear from him by the time InaudibleWhispa and Smiley90 finish their game, we'll give him a forfeit.got the shakes said:
UpperCaseN
Member
me too on the random select. 1 time I found that double tapping on random, rather than random and hitting load, it actually randomized it properly. it must've been in my head tho because it's just the same either way now
So I monkeyed with it a bit today. 5 random tries. In every attempt the first army I got was tundra orcs and the second I got was the undead.
Random!
Got the Shakes
Member
I'll try and see if I can hunt him down again and let you know what happens.
InaudibleWhispa
Member
Inaudiblewhisper and me are in our game, can't do too manyturns a day though, but there's progress made
I left my iPad at my friends house over the weekend. Picking it up tomorrow, so I can't make progress until then I'm afraid.
I was positive I was going to lose until about 15 tiles left. Could have easily gone either way.
mediapulp_wes
Member
wideawakewesley vs tm24 is ongoing, we must both be at opposite sides of the planet because we've yet to be online at the same time, so it's almost one turn a day at the moment.
ScrabbleDude
Member
I was wondering why our game ended. Have fun!
Entirely my fault. I've fallen under multiple siren spells, mostly Skyrim.
RaySpencer
Member
I don't think that was true, haha. But have fun in your tourney!
Yeah I misplayed so much stuff that game. Just gonna stick to gobs I think sick of errors.
That and i played your champions against you hard
superrobot
Member
San Juan! August 2nd
more...http://www.boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/12071/ios-news-san-juan-cafe-international-rune-battle-k
Real-time online play only - boo!
[edit: though for a game that takes only 15 minutes face to face it might not have needed it]
more...http://www.boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/12071/ios-news-san-juan-cafe-international-rune-battle-k
Real-time online play only - boo!
[edit: though for a game that takes only 15 minutes face to face it might not have needed it]
RaySpencer
Member
Never played San Juan, its supposed to be good though, so I will pick this up!
Hopefully Puerto Rico goes on sale when it gets its update too, I need to grab that one.
superrobot
Member
San Juan is a good game in its own right but also is a handy primer for Race For The Galaxy, which Rio Grande are planning to release in early 2012.
Hmmm...
Well maybe after they've finished Dominion then.
I'm hoping San Juan is well put together. If so it'll be a nice complement to Ticket to Ride (1910 version) on the iPad: A quick game I can play against one other player in ~20 minutes.
RaySpencer
Member
Well I enjoyed Race for the Galaxy, so the best get on that shit soon, already bought!
Slacker, your turn in Caylus!
I wonder why RFTG takes so long, there's already a standalone PC version, porting that can't be too hard... Can it?
Rio Grande hasn't shown much dedication to action with iOS so far. Dominion was supposed to come out in January/Februrary of this year I think, and we still don't even have screenshots. There must be some behind-the-scenes machinations slowing the process down.
Don't mention iOS Dominion, all the delays, announcements and then silence over missed deadlines hurts too much.
ScrabbleDude
Member
Originally both Dominion and RftG were announced as 2011 releases.
superrobot
Member
Probably better there isn't a Dominion app as I overdosed on the isotropic site (which is excellent).
My brain would be buzzing for hours if I played 5 or 6 straight games before bedtime.
Yep isotropic can really burn you out on Dominion quickly. Thankfully an async app would play a lot slower, so you wouldn't generally have the "problem" of being able to spam 20 games in an hour.
Didn't even know they had RFTG planned -- wow. One of my favorite games of all time. Bummed that Rio Grande seems to be dragging their feet on all their games though.
ScrabbleDude
Member
I want most of these. All of them except Olympos actually.
Rivals for Catan is coming too, but isn't listed there. That's another good one.
Damn, I wish most of those were coming out really soon but they all seem trapped in some degree of development hell. Also I get excited but not super excited for anything from Codito or Big Daddy's because of their persistent notification issues (I think Big Daddy's does a better job in terms of gloss though). Too bad the Carc guys don't seem to be working anything. Considering how Carc still has a better async implementation than anyone else by a mile, and looking at some of the dev houses actually getting work, it's pretty shocking unless they've turned offers down.
fwiw, the official 7 Wonders companion app is quite awesome if you play the game regularly. It has a new board (you use the iPad), makes scoring easier (especially for science), and has persistent stat-tracking. A few kinks, but really an awesome job that accomplishes the absolute ideal for any companion-type app: makes us want to play the game more.
fwiw, the official 7 Wonders companion app is quite awesome if you play the game regularly. It has a new board (you use the iPad), makes scoring easier (especially for science), and has persistent stat-tracking. A few kinks, but really an awesome job that accomplishes the absolute ideal for any companion-type app: makes us want to play the game more.
If Playdek make all of Agricola, Dominant Species and RFTG, I will be the happiest man alive.
They're working on Traders & Builders now. I assume the Carcassonne team is a small one with a fairly deliberate development methodology. Look how long the River and I&C took. I don't mind the wait because they always deliver such high quality, but it would be nice if such a great developer had a few more of the top teir games to work with.
Gamecocks625
Member
Please excuse my severe lack of board game knowledge, but is Traders & Builders a Carc expansion or an entirely different game?
It's an expansion that adds a couple cool new elements to the game. One is a builder piece that can be placed on a city or road that already contains one of your followers when you add another tile to it. Once you do that, the next time you add another tile to that same feature, you get to draw another tile and go again. Only one extra tile per turn.
The other addition is icons on some tiles representing three different resources that players collect while playing the game. You get a resource token (example: wheat) if you complete a city that has that token displayed on one of the tiles. Whoever has the most of each resource at the end of the game gets 10 bonus points (30 points total up for grabs). You get the resource tiles even if completing the city scores points for another player, so it adds an interesting decision making situation to the game (is it worth helping my opponent to get the resource).
It's my IRL group's favorite and most-played expansion by far, and will no doubt be expertly implemented on the iOS stuff. Can't wait.
Edit: Oh yeah, forgot pigs. Makes cities worth 4 points instead of 3 in farm scoring.
Gamecocks625
Member
It's an expansion that adds a couple cool new elements to the game. One is a builder piece that can be placed on a city or road that already contains one of your followers when you add another tile to it. Once you do that, the next time you add another tile to that same feature, you get to draw another tile and go again. Only one extra tile per turn.
The other addition is icons on some tiles representing three different resources that players collect while playing the game. You get a resource token (example: wheat) if you complete a city that has that token displayed on one of the tiles. Whoever has the most of each resource at the end of the game gets 10 bonus points (30 points total up for grabs). You get the resource tiles even if completing the city scores points for another player, so it adds an interesting decision making situation to the game (is it worth helping my opponent to get the resource).
It's my IRL group's favorite and most-played expansion by far, and will no doubt be expertly implemented on the iOS stuff. Can't wait.
Edit: Oh yeah, forgot pigs. Makes cities worth 4 points instead of 3 in farm scoring.
Oh sweet. Sounds great