Board Game Arena

I am suspicous of anyone who wins over 80% of their games in Spades. So basically you think that the top 7 accounts in elo are cheating? I don't really look at the all time rankings much, but the top 10 in Arena last season ranged between 50% to 70% for their lifetime winning percentage. Which mean...

This is one of the biggest problems. It is frustrating getting advice even when you make a mistake but often it is offered because of the poor play of your partner or just a different approach. I've had partners constantly trump my low leads on 10 bids, instead of discarding their own problem cards ...

I agree with most of what Silvertop has to say. ELO is so variable and depends so much on deals that I question the value of Arena as it is currently administered. I consider myself far from the best players, but even with a reasonable partner and generous deals I don't really see my winning percent...

It is too bad that so many people are trying to manipulate the system and BGA seems to be trying to fix the hacks instead of improving the system. Spades has a high element of chance with incomplete information. ELO only works well in this case with a large number of games where the element of chanc...

I understand muting players in chat or forums who have been insulting or rude, but would it be possible to make it possible for people to chat with people in their friend list. Personally I prefer to red-thumb players who are rude to other people so I can relax while playing but when people in my fr...

A knocker button would also be hand so when people question the missing person in chat and they don't respond they have a chance to knock a few times before being forced to return to the game queue. It would also be nice if people abandoned in these situations for players with good karma.

Adding my agreement to the majority of the thread that is not happy with the ELO decay and power-levelling features brought in, for the reasons already mentioned many times. Power-levelling will absolutely kill small (or emerging) arena games like Homesteaders, where there are only 4 regular player...

→ ELO Decay In the past, some of the strongest players refrained from playing as they could lose ELO, attempting to prevent losing their hard obtained current rank. This lead to situations where players kept their rank without playing anymore. We clearly want to encourage you to play to keep your r...

I am curious as to why the current policy for bga has a lighter punishment for players who they find guilty of cheating than players who are punished for seeking information on bga's policies in forums. I think this is a great point. You can look at a players reptuation to see if they have been mod...

One great suggestion I heard would be to implement Arena Premium and Arena Open(to free accounts) for each game. I would extend it slightly and say that Arena Premium matches would count for both Premium and Open. It would encourage people to buy Premium accounts and protect paying subscribers from ...