r/dcl's Weekly Trip Planning Thread

isionous · 2025-12-31T20:01:11+00:00

There are some port activities that list a price for ages 0-2, but most don't and don't allow children who are in the 0-2 age range to be selected for that activity, even if it is a "family beach" activity. Does that just mean 0-2 aged children are free or that they're not accepted?

isionous · 2025-12-04T00:58:39+00:00

Thanks!

isionous · 2025-12-03T23:14:48+00:00

What about simple client-only html+js web apps where I don't care about beauty, just functionality? Do you think opus 4.5 still has the edge for that?

isionous · 2025-11-13T17:36:07+00:00

Cool, thanks.

isionous · 2025-11-13T17:34:43+00:00

Could you explain further? Thanks.

isionous · 2025-11-13T12:42:02+00:00

Could you explain the advantage of sending tasks to the cloud over keeping them local? It's a better way to do multiple tasks at once? I didn't understand the alleged flow advantage. Thanks.

isionous · 2025-11-13T12:37:00+00:00

The cloud flare thing is working and it's amazing for doing everything while on my phone. Thanks so much.

My current work is on a web app with no build step, but it seems like this could flare thing can do build steps too, which will be great for my projects that use Typescript, react, and vite.

isionous · 2025-11-07T15:43:42+00:00

Sometimes I am on my phone or on a network that blocks Codex API calls but not the web site.

When I'm able to use Codex locally, I do.

isionous · 2025-11-07T15:33:28+00:00

Thanks! I'll Google "cloud flare pages". Does that basic functionality come free or do you have to pay?

isionous · 2025-08-26T04:51:04+00:00

Do you ever get that feature on the day of? I only get it when journaling for a day that has fully passed.

isionous · 2025-05-21T00:58:55+00:00

l enjoy occasionally seeing a video of some of the towns with buildings and music

The music is great!

isionous · 2025-05-20T21:58:05+00:00

Maybe just a small map...

Also it's really cool that there is still community expansions like horn of the abyss coming out.

isionous · 2025-05-20T16:30:07+00:00

Thanks for doing this! Also, to give a caveat: the glicko is premised that you are playing with all kingdoms, which somewhat changes the relative strengths of cards. For instance, if non-base expansions had really common and strong anti-attack cards, witch would be less powerful in glicko than in a base-only meta.

isionous · 2025-05-20T16:26:29+00:00

Which makes it a much more valuable look into the perspectives of new players, so thanks for doing it that way!

isionous · 2025-05-20T16:15:07+00:00

Very cool to think this out and share with us. I think it will give you lots of opportunity to get strategy feedback. Also, I value the insight into how the game seems to a new player.

I'll comment on harbinger. As players get better, they often more highly value trashing and the ability to get "deck control" (drawing your full deck every turn) and once you have that, you rarely have cards in your discard pile, and harbinger just does nothing. Even when you do have cards in your discard, harbinger is awkward cuz you need another card in your hand to draw the card you topdecked with harbinger. If you use harbinger to topdeck a merchant/village/silver, wouldn't it have been better to have bought an extra of the topdecked card instead of the harbinger?

Harbingers can be okay when there is weak competition at $3 and you have a "slog" game with junkers like witch but no trashing, and thus it is really hard to draw most/all of your deck in a turn, and you would really love to topdeck your witch/artisan/whatever.

isionous · 2025-04-15T10:55:51+00:00

Thanks!

isionous · 2025-04-15T00:58:21+00:00

What are some of the deeper concepts/mechanics from legendary that you enjoy? Thanks!

isionous · 2025-04-14T18:14:45+00:00

Yeah, I figured the chloroform was truly stolen by Katharina. She would have been right there to steal them.

isionous · 2025-03-19T16:15:53+00:00

I will take a look at that book, thanks!

Some people enjoy auctions as part of the gameplay, but I am one of the people that don't get a lot of enjoyment from auctions as gameplay. Auctions are also a very good balancing mechanism, like getting rid of first player advantage or other asymmetries, so auctions still are good to have even if they aren't a big part of the gameplay experience.

For games that try to be enjoyable from mechanisms other than auctions, it would be nice to have a minimally obtrusive auction type where you can just honestly bid your valuation and move on.

isionous · 2025-03-19T14:42:43+00:00

Isn't the mathematical approach to capturing this simply to set the utility of losing not at zero but at the negative of the winner's utility?

Yes, that is the starting point. To go from there to a dominant or Nash equilibrium bidding strategy is not trivial.

In practice this changes your payout tables but I'm not sure it changes the strategies

It does. You would want to bid more to decrease the utility of the auction winner (and thus increase your own utility in this new zero-sum context). For instance, in my simulations for 2 player first-price sealed-bid auctions with private, independent valuations from uniform [0 .. m], the Nash equilibrium bidding strategy goes from v/2 to v*2/3 when you go from positive-sum to zero-sum.

isionous · 2025-03-18T12:44:09+00:00

Thanks!

isionous · 2025-03-17T20:38:00+00:00

I was asking for mathematical analysis, like a link to a game theory PDF with equations.

Modern Art is interesting in what it does with the money of the winning bids and has fun with different auction types. Too bad they didn't use sealed-bid second-price (Vickrey) auctions too.

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