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Yet another option could be at set-up time: no abandoning possible. You either finish the game whatever the outcome or you quit with a penalty, with players knowing what to expect beforehand. These tables could award an extra elo in case of victory to encourage playing in this fashion. FWIW, I like...

"ELO" makes sense for Pandemic and other coop games as a measure of how good is the player against the game compared to other players. I understand the argument, and it is a good argument at first sight, but in practice I disagree, for a couple of reasons: The first reason is that Elo wor...

How is Elo updated for Pandemic?

(I am asking out of curiosity --- my personal opinion is that Elo ratings do not make sense for cooperative games and it would be better to remove them).

Elo is a lot more visible than the number of games played: one is immediately visible, the other one require the mouse to be put on the 'elo bar' or the profile to be checked. That's why without other thing to show the experience of someone else (like knowing if it's it's 1st/10th/100th game), I'm ...

As Adavayn and MoiMagnus and others have said, the concept of ELO itself does not make sense for cooperative games(*). IMHO cooperative games like The Crew should just have something like a dash (e.g. [ ELO - ]) showing that ELO calculations do not make sense for that game, in the same way that e.g....

We have a new version of The Crew at BoardGameArena and most of my comments have been addressed! :D Thank you, Tisaac! :D For the purposes of communication, one player can select a card to communicate to others. One click is enough and the card is shown to everybody. Then the player is asked to plac...

For the purposes of communication, one player can select a card to communicate to others. One click is enough and the card is shown to everybody. Then the player is asked to place the token and I wonder: why? why is this not done automatically? :?: The rules say (emphasis mine): The chosen card must...