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I've found a better way to track this game.

What is DeckManager?
DeckManager is a program I wrote to help run online games of Battlestar Galactica. BSG has a lot of decks to keep track of, after all, and handling all of that was a hassle for human players. People were doing it either by keeping the physical decks dealt out or by creating excel spreadsheets with all the cards in them, and they both seemed like bad options to me. Dealing with large amounts of data at once is what computers are good at, after all. So I wrote DeckManager, and now it keeps track of all the decks and player's hands, reshuffling and discarding them as needed. It's very helpful.
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http://forums.something_awful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3252040&pagenumber=1#post370807501
(edit: The paradox forums don't like the word "something awful" for some reason, replacing that word with a bunch of stars. When clicking that link people should delete the "_" character to make the URL work. Sorry about that.)

I will install this sometime soon and see if I can make this tool work for us.
 
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Turn 35

Player Status

Bolded player has the turn.

Adm. CAIN [3] - Resistance HQ
CAVIL [3] - Breeder's Canyon
TIGH [3] - Breeder's Canyon
Pres. ELLEN [5] - Resistance HQ
STARBUCK [8] - Shipyard
KAT [3] - Detention
TYROL [4] (+3) - Occupation Authority

Destiny Deck [8]

Location Status

Medical Center - You may only draw 1 card during the receive skills step.

Detention (Tactics/Politics 9) - You may not move or add more than 2 cards to skill checks. Action: Pass this skill check to move to any other location.

Resistance HQ (Tactics/Leadership/Treachery 7) - Human action: choose a character on NC (human or cylon), then pass this check to execute them.

Occupation Authority - President action: Draw 1 quorum card, then play 1 quorum card. Cylon action: Activate 1 occupation force, then place 1 OF on this position. [ ] ->

Breeder's Canyon - Human: reduce the highest resource by 1, advance the jump market by 1. Cylon: Draw and resolve the top card of the crisis deck. Skip prepare for jump step. [ ] ->

Shipyard - Human: Prepare OR evacuate 1 civilian ship to Echo or Foxtrot. If you evacuate a civilian ship, you may freely move to any Galactica location. Cylon: Look at the top ship of the Locked stack, place it on top or bottom [ ] ->

Locked Civilian Ships: 5/9

Prepared Civilian Ships: 4/9

Attack Table

Attack Occupation Forces: Human action in any location with an OF present. Roll a die, if 5 or higher, destroy the OF. You may discard a Maximum Firepower card to reroll this roll.

Detain a Human: Cylon action in any location with a human character and an OF present. Roll a die, if 1-3, move the human to Detention, if 4-7, move the human to the Medical Center.

Resource Status

Fuel: 4
Food: 4
Morale: 3
Population: 7

DRADIS

Not available.

Fleet Status

Damage Control

Galactica: Admiral's Quarters, -1 Fuel
Pegasus: Engine Room

Jump Preparation:
1 [ ]
2 [ ]
3 [ ]
4 [ ]
5 [X]
A [ ]

Intruder alert:

Not available.

Viper reserves: 0 destroyed, 3 damaged, 5 operational

Raptor reserves: 4 destroyed, 0 operational

Nuclear warheads: 2 remaining

Distance travelled: 7
 
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Artell said:
Ooh, promising.
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Yeah, very. I played around with it a bit and it looks like a very solid tool.

I wouldn't try to use it for this particular game at this stage though.

(Unless you feel like going through a largish XML file and the thread by hand to figure out what has been drawn so far .. way too much work I imagine.)

Artell said:
I'm pretty sure it's to prevent linking there or something... other forums aren't always on good terms with SA.
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Since I haven't seen these forums have any kind of filtering before I guess that's a good theory.


Artell said:
Tempted to throw away all the crisis cards that let people draw.
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Or people should check this thread a little more often :p

edit: According to the hand you've send me I've got 8 cards, not 7
 
Cain, drawing 3 tactics or 3 leadership?

Turn 36

Player Status

Bolded player has the turn.

Adm. CAIN [3]+5 - Resistance HQ
CAVIL [3] - Breeder's Canyon
TIGH [3] - Breeder's Canyon
Pres. ELLEN [5] - Resistance HQ
STARBUCK [8] - Shipyard
KAT [3] - Detention
TYROL [7] - Occupation Authority

Destiny Deck [8]

Location Status

Medical Center - You may only draw 1 card during the receive skills step.

Detention (Tactics/Politics 9) - You may not move or add more than 2 cards to skill checks. Action: Pass this skill check to move to any other location.

Resistance HQ (Tactics/Leadership/Treachery 7) - Human action: choose a character on NC (human or cylon), then pass this check to execute them.

Occupation Authority - President action: Draw 1 quorum card, then play 1 quorum card. Cylon action: Activate 1 occupation force, then place 1 OF on this position. [OF] ->

Breeder's Canyon - Human: reduce the highest resource by 1, advance the jump market by 1. Cylon: Draw and resolve the top card of the crisis deck. Skip prepare for jump step. [ ] ->

Shipyard - Human: Prepare OR evacuate 1 civilian ship to Echo or Foxtrot. If you evacuate a civilian ship, you may freely move to any Galactica location. Cylon: Look at the top ship of the Locked stack, place it on top or bottom [ ] ->

Locked Civilian Ships: 5/9

Prepared Civilian Ships: 4/9

Attack Table

Attack Occupation Forces: Human action in any location with an OF present. Roll a die, if 5 or higher, destroy the OF. You may discard a Maximum Firepower card to reroll this roll.

Detain a Human: Cylon action in any location with a human character and an OF present. Roll a die, if 1-3, move the human to Detention, if 4-7, move the human to the Medical Center.

Resource Status

Fuel: 4
Food: 4
Morale: 3
Population: 7

DRADIS

Not available.

Fleet Status

Damage Control

Galactica: Admiral's Quarters, -1 Fuel
Pegasus: Engine Room

Jump Preparation:
1 [ ]
2 [ ]
3 [ ]
4 [ ]
5 [X]
A [ ]

Intruder alert:

Not available.

Viper reserves: 0 destroyed, 3 damaged, 5 operational

Raptor reserves: 4 destroyed, 0 operational

Nuclear warheads: 2 remaining

Distance travelled: 7
 
@Cain - If you can, XO me for another two ships prepped please.
Otherwise, moving to shipyard and prepping a ship yourself might work. (It depends a bit, if you have a critical situation moving to the shipyard isn't a bad idea at all...)

Unless you have a better plan, anyway. I'm not seeing a lot of options. If you XO Ciryandor he might be able to play a nice quorum card but that risks brigging him.

We could execute a cylon I suppose, but I'm not sure what good that would do besides costing us cards.

Attacking the OF is something I'd avoid doing since that will end you up in a place where the two cylons can just activate the Occupation authority and then brig you.
 
You draw this round, too, remember that, though you haven't stated what you draw. You definitely have at least eight, there is absolutely no way for you to have less since that's your draw for this turn and what you got from the crisis card. I'll send your hand when you tell me whether you take 3 tactics or 3 leadership.
 
Prepare two ships using the shipyard with my two actions

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Action queue:
=> Artell: Crisis draw
=> Jacob/Cavil: Preload draw / action?
 
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I cannot preload anything until the crisis card shows and I know what is going on jump wise.
 
jacob-Lundgren said:
I cannot preload anything until the crisis card shows and I know what is going on jump wise.
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Just trying to speed things up by reminding people of the option, and of what it is exactly that the game is waiting on.
edit: Since we're close to jumping I guess galactica will come back soon. Which means we'll also have to deal with ships, if I'm not mistaken.
I can imagine why you're not able to preload anything :)


BTW, Artell, do you consider it ok to preload actions publicly that do not entail playing cards?

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Action queue:
=> Artell: Crisis draw
 
At this point in the game when the Cylons are all outed, I do not mind since the need for deception is not there.

Prepare the Civilians

Leadership/politics 9

Pass: No effect

Fail: -1 food and place 1 OF at Occupation Authority.

Raiders move. Jump prep activates. Galactica and Pegasus will have returned next turn.
 
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