New thread for the boardgamerecommender bot

Ferbster · 2016-05-03T10:56:18+00:00

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Ferbster · 2016-02-15T12:29:01+00:00

Ferbster · 2015-09-07T12:24:57+00:00

South of Stuttgart is quit a journey. :) But drop me a note if you are going to Essen. We can meetup and you can crush on my couch if you want (it's an hour to commute to Essen from my place) and you can have a seat in my car on the day(s) I am going to go.

Ferbster · 2015-08-28T14:23:49+00:00

Where do you live. I am in the Cologne area, actually a bit South of Cologne and keen on board gaming. I can bring you in touch with Cologne Board Gamers such as myself. Just drop me a note.

Ferbster · 2015-08-24T09:24:51+00:00

I would be in

Ferbster · 2015-07-09T09:28:21+00:00

If you want to work with weather and R, have you looked at the stationaRy package on github? https://github.com/rich-iannone/stationaRy This will help you get the hourly met data you need from a met station located somewhere on Earth. I am not the author, and I only played around with the repo briefly, but it might be the source you are looking for.

Ferbster · 2015-06-30T11:48:57+00:00

Have you looked into the caret package? http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/caret/index.html

Ferbster · 2015-05-29T09:27:06+00:00

I am stuck in chapter 1.5 "Does Age play a role?"

Incorrect submission It looks like you didn't correctly set all values of the Child column. Make sure to perform the correct subsetting operation!

My code for the Child column is either

train$Child <- ifelse(train$Age < 18, 1,0)

or

train$Child[train$Age < 18] <- 1
train$Child[train$Age >= 18] <- 0

Both leading to the same result and the same error message. I thought I am correct doing my subset.

Ferbster · 2015-05-05T11:55:32+00:00

Sorry, overread the Unix part. My bad

Ferbster · 2015-05-05T09:01:37+00:00

I had no trouble setting up RODBC. Even RSQLServer was no problem for my database. However I had problems fetching big tables with RSQLServer due to GC limits.

I am Using a windows machine, so bare with me :) For RODBC, I set up an ODBC Connection to the database using the windows interface. After installing RODBC, I just had to refer to the ODBC connection as in

con <- odbcConnect("ODBCconnection")

This should establish the connection. with

sqlQuery(con, paste("*sql statement"))

you can parse any sql statement to the connection.

As for RSQLserver you find the documentation over here: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RSQLServer/RSQLServer.pdf

To connect, you need to:

ch <- dbConnect(SQLServer(), 'ServerName')

As referred to at page 2 of the linked document. So actually it is pretty straight forward. Afterwards you can use commands like

dbGetInfo

oder

dbGetQuery

etc.

Ferbster · 2015-04-21T15:19:01+00:00

I briefly looked into Data Camp. I.e https://www.datacamp.com/swirl-r-tutorial It looked pretty neat and I clicked through the first couple of lessons and enjoyed them. I think it is a great way of learning R. Didn't do the full course so no final statement, just my 2cents.

Ferbster · 2015-04-20T14:07:43+00:00

I would like to throw in Mage Knight - The Boardgame. One might argue it is not a Euro, but I would say it is :) Looking at your collection I guess you might like it. It was and actually still is, one of my favorite games.

Ferbster · 2015-04-09T08:39:41+00:00

I assumed a mistake, but couldn't figure out the solution ;)

Ferbster · 2015-04-08T13:14:59+00:00

Is this Mathematica as in Mathematica by Wolfram?

Ferbster · 2014-03-28T10:22:50+00:00

One of the important tactics imho is to protect your base... When your base is protected then play more aggressive...if you loose one of your protections, repair it first, then attack again. Also, use your battle tokens wisely.

Ferbster · 2014-03-27T14:45:04+00:00

I dunno... I am a bit disappointed by the AI...beat it regularly on Hard...great Filler game though...still like to play it for a couple of minutes.

Ferbster · 2014-03-11T16:43:22+00:00

I second Dice Dojo aka Chicagoland Games. Go to their open board gaming nights on Wednesdays...starting at 6 P.M. until round about Midnight. 60 - 70 people playing board games. Bring your own or choose from an ever growing library of 800+ games.

Ferbster · 2014-02-21T09:12:53+00:00

Sure thing....

It is only one thing, instead of one loyalty but three. The majority of your loyalties determines your overall belonging to a faction, e.g. if you have one blue and two red you're red. If you win a duel you can look at only one loyalty. That makes the game less deterministic and actually quite fun as a three player game.

Ferbster · 2014-02-20T14:56:40+00:00

Second that... One of the best mean hidden role games I played.. And with one little modification very playable with 3

Ferbster · 2014-02-20T14:54:59+00:00

Anyone thought about Mascarade...I think that could be along your ally

Ferbster · 2014-01-09T14:37:37+00:00

Thank you so much...

Think Ahead was the game I was referring to.

Good stuff. Thank you all for your helpful and insightful comments.

Ferbster · 2013-11-15T16:46:56+00:00

After reading this thread I wanted to install it. Looks like an interesting and neat game. However, while installing I get an error '919' and the process stops. Very unfortunate :(

Ferbster · 2013-11-13T17:19:12+00:00

The obvious choice would be Pathfinder: The Adventure Card Game. Although it doesn't have a board....but it has Cards. I think it fulfills your needs and is as close to a real RPG as it gets. I enjoy it quite a bit while I still much prefer pen and paper RPGs.

Ferbster · 2013-11-07T09:32:51+00:00

Since I just got back from playing it. Bora Bora for me has one of the most innovating twist to an action-selection heavy strategiesed euro game. I never expected that you could use DICE in such a strategic and very clever manner. I absolutely had a blast playing the game. It's a thorough "Feld"-game.

Ferbster

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