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I think it's really just a design/ethics problem. Jason understandably wants to treat players with respect. Unfortunately, that vision is essentially the opposite of what makes gambling profitable for casinos.

An easy way to rectify the "I'm Red and you're Green" thing would be to have both players enable colorblind mode on their client, and hue shift the colors to say, red/blue for one player and blue/red for the other. That way it's a little easier to understand what's happening from the third party perspective.

Edit:
If we were to mix the audio into one video, splitting the audio so one person's sound was on the right track, and the other on the left track would allow viewers to adjust the L/R balance on their computers to hear just one person. [I'm not sure if streaming sites combine stereo audio into mono.]

I have an audio setup at my place, but I don't yet have any screen recording software. What software do you use? I could probably dedicate some time to this and give you the video file to upload my side of the game.

Heh, I'd be interested in buying some of the amulets, particularly the copper and silver ones. I don't think I could afford market value on a gold. I'm hoping to UNLOCK the door to ENDLESS RICHES™.

Money can also be deposited with a pre-paid VISA gift card. Claspa is a German player who frequents the chatroom often, perhaps he would have a better answer for you.

http://us19.chatzy.com/88872904022107

Initial thoughts:
This new mode is definitely more fun. I'm enjoying it as a game much more than the default.

With the default version there were two ways to conceivably win when you get a 1-4 round one, either bluff your opponent by betting and make them fold, or choose your columns carefully, trying to may your opponent think you didn't get the 1 and hope for a higher total. Both were hard to do. With this version, a 1 isn't so bad, you can still try for a straight, flush, or 3 of a kind, the top hands in the game. Which means people will bet more, which may be what was missing.

I'd like to put a third vote in to the "I wish I had a score graph" camp. I've already lost to a flush thinking my straight was unbeatable, but maybe that's a skill I haven't learned yet about game. But deciphering all possibilities for my opponent is a tall order, and if I had something that said "giving this column will block a flush draw" that'd be wonderful. On some hands, after I've made my pair and 3 of a kind is impossible due to game tree reasons the only thing I'm able to do is block my opponent's possible straight, flush, or higher pair draw with the final column, and deciphering the possibilities manually between two columns on a timer is nerve-wracking.

In poker, Aces are high and low, making them even more valuable than they already are. As long as you're considering losing the 666, opening up one more straight possibility and replacing 1's with Aces (8-9-1) might be interesting, but hey, I'm not the game designer .

Keyboard controls I've figured out so far:

Choosing columns can be handled by the numeral keys 1-6, first press is your choice, 2nd is opponent's
F is Fold
Enter is Confirm/Bet
Up/Down increases or decreases bet
= is screenshot
left right works to choose final reveal column

Returning to Fundamental issues of the game:

I'm not sure about y'all, but when I put down my initial payment, that was it for me. That was all I wanted to put in the game, and I don't think I will ever put any more into the game. The only way I'd need to put down more money to keep playing is if I was losing, and this game is very discouraging to losers. In order to have an actual incentive to deposit more money, I'd either have to run out of money or see the availability of games at a magnitude of higher stakes, i.e., $50+ games. All I see now is the occasional $20 one put up by JA, and in the long run I think accepting those games is a recipe for failure. It's a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation.

With poker, even the losers have a perceived equal chance to win some cash, where as in CM a poor player will essentially never make money, feel discouraged, and stop playing.

It's a bad scene when I start playing The Castle Doctrine to destress after a loss in CM.

ok, I did some digging on that site Cobblestone linked and put in a query for "God of Destruction" (An anagram for ForgotTunedDisco). Which has lead me to these two bits of text:

Possibility 1: India and Primitive Christian gods

Possibility 2: Numbers, their occult power and mystical virtue (how is it not this...)

I haven't read much of that book, but this is probably where we should keep digging.

The swapped order could be to keep the prizes in order by weight. The heaviest amulet is given away last.

Edit: But that only holds true for the gold, not the silver or even copper.

Just noticed this: In the "Before" picture, there are 5 silver coins, but after there are only 4 silver amulets. Now, this could be a molding issue, but Jason's material return on gold was a nice 60% (amulet mass/coin mass). Why buy an extra silver coin? I may be reading into this too much, but the material return on the silver amulets as shown is only around 40%.

There's more than enough silver left over to cast another amulet.

And what happened to all that leftover gold?