Talk:Plays

"Card Advantage": does this mean I have an advantage? - card heh it nearly did in that last dynasty Card (talk) 16:55, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

Knights

"Black Knight and White Knight (which came up last dynasty)" - where was this from? Google is drawing a blank.

I'm not sure White Knight even has to be an Emperor. Regular players will fix problematic bugs, and even cynical players will fix a loophole if they can see that other players are in a better position to abuse it. --Kevan (talk) 16:21, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

I think Cuddlebeam was referring to the Moby-Dick dynasty where his strategy was to rely on default values (being the Black Knight) and you fixed it near the end of the Dynasty (making you the White Knight). I don't think he ever posted those terms but maybe thought with them or simply gave name to them here. Maybe with those cynical players there's room for a Grey Knight? Although I would think most people would fix rules that unintentionally harm them. Card (talk) 16:55, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

First time I use a talk page, sorry if I'm derpy. I was more focused on the idea that the Emperor has no in-game interest to make the routine fixes, while those regular/cynical players do. So, the Emperor does it just for an agenda of good faith, not to improve their chances to win the game - that's the big difference, and what I mean with "White Knight". But we should probably get a better term for it. White Emperor? Zamboni Emperor (routinely cleans up/changes the ruleset so that play can be "better")?

White Knight/Black Knight are business terms, and my intent was to just try to use the original metaphor that those terms originally came from (which I don't know if it actually exists or not, I just liked the name and thought to use the same because they have a similar feel, but maybe other names are better). And yeah, I was referring to the Moby-Dick dynasty.