Board Game Arena

I think Silvertop gives a really valuable point of view. I have looked a little into the developer options for Board Game Arena and there arent' many options as far as game statistics which I can partly understand because it involves access to a lot of valuable proprietary information with some priv...

As far as camping its like the song the Gambler, you need to know when to walk away. An arena ranking mechanism that allowed the kind of ranking inflation that the player was using to game the system but with legitimate games would help to defeat this tactic but it would only be valid if it would re...

It is good to see the moderators have penalized the ELO rating of the player using dummy accounts to boost their ELO into the top 5. It is hard to say if this was a short-term strategy over the past 2 weeks or a longer pattern but it did give some food for thought about how the ELO rankings are calc...

This is not directly related, and I have been looking for a thread or somewhere to post this feedback, but in Arena games, in particular Spades the waiting time for matches can be extremely long. Sometimes a sound is generated and you move directly to the game when a match starts. At other times I s...

As long as its a level playing field I have no problem with either. I imagine there are more people instant messaging to gain an edge although I think the Spades Arena games are fairly social and since your partners are determined randomly less of a factor. Although there is often a long wait though...