Board Game Arena

I concur. I was quite eager for Arena mode to go back to 3P for this season. Alas, it was not to be so. Alternating between 2P and 3P makes a lot of sense, and at least allows me to get my favorite player count (3P) in for every-other season.

That's pretty well-reasoned.
I'm also in the camp of really not-liking 1v1 at all, so I'll "make some noise" here in hopes that we get future Arena seasons with higher player-counts.

My favorite player counts for Terraforming Mars is 3P, then 2P, then 4P, then 5P. Both the 3P game and the 2P game have interesting balance between "engine" and "terraforming" strategies, which difficult decisions around pace-control. They also allow for more interactive card-dra...

I've played the solo game against Alfred 3 times (but only after playing a lot of multiplayer games and getting fairly good at Darwin's Journey). My results are as follows: Alfred (Medium/Blue): 190 points vs. Me: 234 points Alfred (Easy/White): 102 points vs. Me: 204 points Alfred (Medium/Blue): 15...

+1 to that!
This implementation of Darwin's Journey has rapidly become my absolute favorite game implementation on all of BGA! I'd absolutely love to play the Firelands expansion here, as well.

Perhaps I'm in the minority, but I love icon-based "move history" in this implementation on BGA. I find it much faster and easier to parse than the long text-log in other games (and I love the elegance of the "player color along the left edge of the cell" depicting which player t...

I imagine that these statistics would tell a very different story if you look at "All Players" vs. only looking at "Top Players." I'm not saying that it wouldn't be interesting, but it seems like it would be very easy to jump to conclusions that aren't necessarily true, with a ga...

Just wanted to add that I'm also a big fan of the "visual action log" in this implementation of Darwin's Journey. I find it faster and easier to parse than the "long log of text-lines" that other heavy games have, and find navigating the "please re-play the turns I missed wh...

In real life, I feel like the base game is for teaching it to newcomers. Play that once or twice to wrap your head around it, then we're always playing with at least one expansion after that. I agree with this statement 100%. The designer has even stated that the game is meant to be played with exp...

I agree! I definitely feel it makes the game more interesting. I'd love to see it added, and even ranked it #3 in my list of expansions I'd love to see added on BGA, in the "Expansions" thread.