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Explain Dominance To Me
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alcaras wrote
at 8:55 AM, Thursday August 21, 2008 EDT
Hi everyone,
I'm pretty confused about how dominance works. I'd like to understand it better, since it's 50% of the points. Could someone explain it to me? (preferably with math?) Suppose we have a small board with 10 lands, and 4 players, A, B, C and D. A has 4 lands B has 3 lands C has 2 lands D has 1 land. Suppose these players do nothing for rounds 1 and 2, just ending turn. It's now round 3, which is when Dominance starts, as I understand it. A begins his turn. He moves and takes away one land from B. A B C D : 5 2 2 1 Question 1: What is the dominance now? Suppose B moves and takes away 2 lands from A, and 1 from C. A B C D : 3 5 1 1 Question 2: What is the dominance now? Suppose C moves and takes away 4 lands from B. A B C D : 3 1 5 1 Question 3: What is the dominance now? Suppose D ends turn. A B C D : 3 1 5 1 Question 4: What is the dominance now? Suppose A ends turn. A B C D : 3 1 5 1 Question 5: What is the dominance now? Suppose B ends turn. A B C D : 3 1 5 1 Question 6: What is the dominance now? Suppose C eliminates B, taking his one land. A B C D : 3 0 6 1 Question 7: What is the dominance now? Thanks :) |
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wishbone wrote
at 11:09 AM, Thursday August 21, 2008 EDT the letter 6.
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Debwa wrote
at 12:50 PM, Thursday August 21, 2008 EDT We dont get to know dominance. It's a conspiracy Ryan created. There have been thread after thread after thread where people ask that exact same question, but for some reason we just don't get to know. Frustrating, isn't it??
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manbearpig wrote
at 1:28 PM, Thursday August 21, 2008 EDT And View > Page Source only show the html layout of the site, not any flash/AJAX coding. :(
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MOTHER_OF_SATAN wrote
at 2:51 PM, Thursday August 21, 2008 EDT how longer u got more territories so much more dom points u get.
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Debwa wrote
at 3:08 PM, Thursday August 21, 2008 EDT Right, it's basically the proportion of territories that you have in reference to other people. However, specific mathematical calculations or even any other information is unknown. Like, how is it that after 4 rounds, if you have been in first for ever single round, you can still not have top dom?
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ProxyCheater wrote
at 7:08 PM, Thursday August 21, 2008 EDT I seem to recall that how long you hold onto the territories matters. So if you got to 1st place by the end of your turn, but others were in first in between, you might not have the top dom. If you hold onto 1st place throughout the 1st 4 rounds, then I would expect you to have the top dom.
It also seems to be a rolling average of sorts--taking 1st place doesn't instantly give you top dom. I believe Ryan said at some point it's like poker, you ante in points to the pot every round, and the (dom) points are doled back out proportionally by how many territories you have relative to the other players. |
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alcaras wrote
at 10:43 PM, Thursday August 21, 2008 EDT That makes it really hard to strategize if I don't even know the details of scoring :-(
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Ryan wrote
at 10:57 PM, Thursday August 21, 2008 EDT dom: ratio of maximum territories maintained for over 1 round relative to others.
- max possible dom is throttled first several rounds. Even if you get really big it may only count as 4 dom - after throttling ends the max is around 1/2 of the board. This stops farming. |
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manbearpig wrote
at 12:44 AM, Friday August 22, 2008 EDT Wow, that's it?
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Rapt0r wrote
at 6:55 AM, Friday August 22, 2008 EDT could you rephrase that a bit? what do "maximum territories" and "max is about 1/2 of the board" mean?
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