Good news about Eminent Domain!

Congratulations!
Great news and a work well done.

I am very interested in playing your game. I heard it's a deck building game. I just played rune age lately, is your game more like a dominion where you build an economic engine, or is it more like rune age where you build your army to perform task?

Congrates!
and keep it up.

Regards,
David

I read the rules lately, I would probably try to play, but I do not think I would buy the game. I am aiming more to get San Juan instead.

Still, I am happy for your suceess, I know a lot of people could like that kind of game.

This makes me sad in the sense that I'm dragging my *** to produce anything.

Congrats though.

Just for my information, when you designed your expansion, did you read the negative comments on board game geek (or any other source) and tried to patch a few problems you have not noticed.

Or you already had your expansion in mind and did not really bother about comments.

I know that some games listen to their fan comments and upgrade the game with a patch when they can . Thunderstone advance somewhat did that.

Congrats, bro! You've spent years here encouraging the rest of us, it's about time you got some of the love back. Hope you sell as many copies as you want!

Pish pash twaddle, I’ve every confidence the expansion(s) will be great and add to the game play while satisfying the various player needs and wants.

I think some of the unfulfilled expectations surrounding the game are a result of the seamless integration of theme and mechanics – and those funky little spaceships which could easily have been identical. I’m not a big fan of deck builders per se (looks at the void in his game collection that could be filled by Dominion and all its expansions and isn’t/never will be).

In fact Eminent Domain is one of the few deck builders I currently own and I can’t see myself altering that any time soon. The reason I bought it is because the rules are relatively simple to grasp, its well balanced and it has a theme everyone can relate to. The people I game with aren’t really orc and troll bashers and complete strangers to MTG and sprawling deck builders.

I can drop in a game of Eminent Domain for a varied experience with little trouble. Dropping in another deck builder wouldn’t be anywhere near as acceptable and I would certainly hear ‘can’t we play something more light hearted and fun’.

I think a lot of the requests are down to people confusing theme and component quality with mechanical content. The tokens have different colours (which are simply markers to determine what goes where) and the ships are different sizes (oh so they must do something different because they look different).

The production quality of the game leads people to think that things should do more, it’s a simple assumption. However, in jumping to this conclusion they frequently fail to take into account how well balanced the game is and how the inclusion of something to meet with the appearance of the game could so easily throw everything out of line.

Balancing a game is one of the hardest things to do and Eminent Domain does that wonderfully. It would be a crying shame if the balance was disturbed simply to give a reason to the piece differences.

In respect to my own experience, I’ve never had any complaints or questions about the planetary colour tokens. In the same way that I’ve never had any complaints about different colours being used for marker tokens in other games.

However, a couple of people have questioned why the ships are different, since they do the same thing. This is probably because they make an obvious visual statement and they look like they should do something different, ‘but those ones are bigger’.

I have to admit I sort of felt the same way, but I simply put it down to the fact that they where included as a provision for a future expansion. Saying that, I like to tweak things and I couldn’t help myself throwing in a reason for their size difference and an associated mechanic. So it will be very interesting to see what Seth has in mind for them.

I’m looking forward to the new expansion and I’m confident that it will open up new dimensions in game play while preserving the balance of the original game. When you have something as good as Eminent Domain it’s tempting to bow down to player pressure and throw endless expansions at it to satisfy demand.

However, the best things in life take time and it is the time and thought that has already been put into the game that makes it a stand out. I think this is one of those cases when people should adhere to the adage ‘the designer knows what’s best for their game’. They should have confidence that Seth has noticed what people would like to see and how he will try to incorporate those wishes without sacrificing the overall integrity of the game.

Personally, I can’t wait to see what the future expansions will contain (although I will have to). The only downside is that my nephew currently has my copy and he loves it. So I will probably have to stump up for a new copy instead of running the gauntlet of trying to pries it back out of his intergalactic hands – and I’m not sure that I have the resources to make such a conquest.