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iOS Online Boardgaming Megathread (Carcassonne, Everything Playdek, & Many More)

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Smiley90

Stop shitting on my team. Start shitting on my finger.
eznark said:
But it's going to be a FTP pay to win CCG, right? I mean, I like the people involved but I don't really support the business model that this sort of thing pretty much has to be built on and they really didn't dissuade me of that perception.
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They said you'll get enough... "coins" (whatever their ingame currency is) to be able to buy badges simply by playing, so theoretically it should be alright. Question is, how many packs will you be able to buy...

But they're really more aiming for a TCG model I think? And TCG's are traditionally heavy on "buy cards, then build decks, then buy more cards, then expand deck", as opposed to CCG's which are more "buy deck, play forever"
 
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eznark

Banned
Smiley90 said:
They said you'll get enough... "coins" (whatever their ingame currency is) to be able to buy badges simply by playing, so theoretically it should be alright. Question is, how many packs will you be able to buy...

But they're really more aiming for a TCG model I think? And TCG's are traditionally heavy on "buy cards, then build decks, then buy more cards, then expand deck", as opposed to CCG's which are more "buy deck, play forever"
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Yeah, that's pretty much why I am disinterested.
 
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Smiley90

Stop shitting on my team. Start shitting on my finger.
eznark said:
Yeah, that's pretty much why I am disinterested.
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TCG's aren't inherently bad money-wise (unless you want to play tournaments and shit), especially if they give you free packs (I'm looking at you, MTGO). Plus, seeing the first videos and their designs, it looks REALLY nice, with the level-up mechanic that's fairly new (at least for TCG's afaik), and a layout that's kinda like Kard Kombat, but just a much much better game. I'm definitely willing to spend 25 bucks on that, knowing how much I've enjoyed playing MTGO and that it's some of the MtG people and Ascension people working on it.
 
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CzarTim

Member
Lost Cities Tourney - Single game rounds, double elimination. Seed by skill (go to New Game, then look at the % listed above "Versus Online Opponent".)

Sign up:

GAF Name | GC Name | LC Online Skill %
CzarTim | CzarTim | 49.1%
superrobot | Diesel Pioneer | 43.8%
Mercviper | Mercviper | ??.?%
bigwinnerx | bigwinnerx | 30.7%
Smiley90 | smiley1790 | 15.5%
AstroLad | AstroLad | 44%
Kosh | Kosh One | ???%
gatekeeper |Z3R0_5UM |16.1%
AirBrian | AirBrian | 39.4%


For new page.
 
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Smiley90

Stop shitting on my team. Start shitting on my finger.
Kosh said:
lol

It is a little confusing. I used Os for wins and went by rows. If someone else did it by columns that could make it really confusing.
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Yeah I did it wrong at first too, but then noticed Hereafter had all O's in the row and not the column, and I figured she didn't lose most her games... :p So I changed mine to rows too.
 
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Hereafter

Member
Smiley90 said:
Yeah I did it wrong at first too, but then noticed Hereafter had all O's in the row and not the column, and I figured she didn't lose most her games... :p So I changed mine to rows too.
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Any chance you can huh? :)

I'm in on Lost Cities too.

Gc is Thenafter. 33.2%
 
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AstroLad

Hail to the KING baby
CzarTim said:
The amount of bull shit in this SW game with Astro. Holy shit.
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Wha happen? Just bad draws & rolls and stuff?

I kinda hate being GD btw. Feel like they are pretty boring strategically. Just kind of picked them for that match because I'm semi-competent with them and fairly consistent, whereas I'm real streaky with Gobs and JE (though I have a better record with those I either dominate or get destroyed quick). Would be nice if winner could switch after the first match -- forgot about that -- but rules is rules!
 
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CzarTim

Member
AstroLad said:
Wha happen? Just bad draws & rolls and stuff?

I kinda hate being GD btw. Feel like they are pretty boring strategically. Just kind of picked them for that match because I'm semi-competent with them and fairly consistent, whereas I'm real streaky with Gobs and JE (though I have a better record with those I either dominate or get destroyed quick). Would be nice if winner could switch after the first match -- forgot about that -- but rules is rules!
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Yup, had awful rolls/draw. Good game, though!
 
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Mike Works

Member
Well, I crumpled and bought Lost Cities (I play almost all board games on my iPad). Enjoying the pace so far, two quick questions:

1. Is there only one "deck" of cards for each color... ie, is there only one green 10 and blue 8, or are there two of each?

2. Do the smiley faces in the A.I. game chart mean anything at all?

Feel free to send an invite (same as carc: mikeworks) if you want to play a game, though I'm still learning. Are the percentages the same as EOL?
 
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superrobot

Member
Mike Works said:
Well, I crumpled and bought Lost Cities (I play almost all board games on my iPad). Enjoying the pace so far, two quick questions:

1. Is there only one "deck" of cards for each color... ie, is there only one green 10 and blue 8, or are there two of each?

2. Do the smiley faces in the A.I. game chart mean anything at all?

Feel free to send an invite (same as carc: mikeworks) if you want to play a game, though I'm still learning. Are the percentages the same as EOL?
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1. Yes. Just one of each.
2. I think Dr Jonze fancies me. (they smile when they think they are winning.)
 
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bonesquad

Member
I hope I wasn't holding up our pool in SW too much, but I was able to take my turns now.


CzarTim said:
Lost Cities Tourney - Single game rounds, double elimination. Seed by skill (go to New Game, then look at the % listed above "Versus Online Opponent".)

Sign up:

GAF Name | GC Name | LC Online Skill %
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bonesquad | justjeff | 19.9%
 
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Gaspode_T

Member
Lost Cities - I have yet to finish a game but it is already kind of blowing my mind how deceptively simple it is.

Having some fun Carc games out of the blue, for a while there I had 0 games which was the first time since I started playing it...
 
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bonesquad

Member
Dice in SW in always feast or famine for me. Across three games just now I manged to roll 1 hit in 14 dice rolls. Then I'm sure next turn I'd roll 13 of 14. Why can't it average out within each game? :)

If I keep losing like this in Lost Cities I'll need to update my % here. That swings wilder than my SW rolls.



Edit: It seems there is a winner in the race to own all the games listed on that GAF spreadsheet. When I get a GAF GC friend request I check to see maybe what they want to play. In Kosh's case: all of them!
 
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AstroLad

Hail to the KING baby
Oh hot damn, Le Havre looks awesome with the retina update. Like, it legitimately looks fantastic.

Someone send out some invites. :D
 
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superrobot

Member
5DdZb.jpg

That's it for me. Good luck.
 
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AstroLad

Hail to the KING baby
Stone Age coming to iOS from a new developer. Could be cool. It's certainly a solid game with nice art that's excellent for async.

All comes down to the implementation as always.

I sent some Le Havre invites. It's funny how superficial I am -- now that it's retina I totally want to play more.
 
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RaySpencer

Member
I still havent really played much Le Havre, im going to have to play some more now that its retina, I feel the same way you do Astro, haha. I just want to take full advantage of this expensive ass iPad!
 
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AstroLad

Hail to the KING baby
Only warning about Le Havre: Sometimes notifications disappear, so if you have games going check in at least once a day if you can!
 
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Kosh

Member
AstroLad said:
1. Enter your info in Heel's Google Doc spreadsheet. This spreadsheet will list your GC name and all the games you want to play, and allow you and others to create games across the iOS board-gaming universe. Only check games that you are up for getting invites to. And remember for all of these you don't need to know the game or be an expert at all, just up for playing. Check it regularly as new games will be added all the time and as expansions come out you can indicate you own them by writing O instead of X.
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Question about the spreadsheet. O means you own it. X means you don't own it? Underline means you really want to play it. Why do some have Xs underlined?
 
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AstroLad

Hail to the KING baby
Sorry, O is supposed to be you own the expansions. Which I guess is confusing. :p I could swear this was described on the sheet at one point but will add it back.
 
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Heel

Member
Well, Thunderstone added GameCenter login support. Not sure if it ties in with creating a multiplayer game though. I created a game for 'friends only', anyone wanna see if they can find it?

Not that this saves the game from running like molasses...yikes.
 
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CzarTim

Member
Lost Cities Tourney - Single game rounds, double elimination. Seed by skill (go to New Game, then look at the % listed above "Versus Online Opponent".)

Sign up:

GAF Name | GC Name | LC Online Skill %
CzarTim | CzarTim | 49.1%
AstroLad | AstroLad | 44%
superrobot | Diesel Pioneer | 43.8%
AirBrian | AirBrian | 39.4%
Hereafter | Thenafter | 33.2%
bigwinnerx | bigwinnerx | 30.7%
bonesquad | justjeff | 19.9%
Mercviper | Mercviper | 19.1%
gatekeeper |Z3R0_5UM |16.1%
Smiley90 | smiley1790 | 15.5%
Grifter | risottoball | 7.0%
Squirrel Killer | Squirrel_Killer | 7.0%
Mike Works | mikeworks | 7.0%
Kosh | Kosh One | ???%


Updated. If we can get 2 more, that should be good. Otherwise this is the group!
 
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Smiley90

Stop shitting on my team. Start shitting on my finger.
CzarTim said:
Lost Cities Tourney - Single game rounds, double elimination. Seed by skill (go to New Game, then look at the % listed above "Versus Online Opponent".)

Sign up:

GAF Name | GC Name | LC Online Skill %
CzarTim | CzarTim | 49.1%
superrobot | Diesel Pioneer | 43.8%
Mercviper | Mercviper | 19.1%
bigwinnerx | bigwinnerx | 30.7%
Smiley90 | smiley1790 | 15.5%
AstroLad | AstroLad | 44%
Kosh | Kosh One | ???%
gatekeeper |Z3R0_5UM |16.1%
AirBrian | AirBrian | 39.4%
Grifter | risottoball | 7.0%
Squirrel Killer | Squirrel_Killer | 7.0%
Hereafter | Thenafter | 33.2%
bonesquad | justjeff | 19.9%
Mike Works | mikeworks | 7.0%


Updated. If we can get 2 more, that should be good. Otherwise this is the group!
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Do you mind re-posting with ordered signups based on %? just so we get a better impression of what the field looks like... And how bad I am.
 
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