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Refer to this thread: https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=207805#p207805 You can find all users that red thumbed you and all users you have red thumbed by inspecting the source code on any BGA page as long as you are logged in. As for never having ongoing games, they could play real-tim...

That was not what op is asking. He wants to know approx how many overall active players of the 10 million are still actively playing. My guess is around 200 to 300k. Active being playing once a month at least Apologies. I was not aware there is an official definition for active players, so I only m...

You can find the number of online players on server status: https://boardgamearena.com/serverstatus ... ves_played

I don't see any reason why not just half their ELO points

A harsher karma penalty can be argued for, but halfing elo points is simply ridiculous. Quitting or exceeding the time limit are bad practices, but there is no reason someone better at the game should be punished more.

This is possible with a premium account. If you don't have a premium account though, you won't be able to play with someone from the same IP address.
The player from the different location will see a same IP address warning but since you're not strangers on the internet that won't be a problem.

I'm near 100 matches with Harmonies. And I have to say, the luck factor definitely should not be 1. In a 2 player game, usually around 60 tokens will be placed. Count in the remaining offer, that will be 75 tokens. There is a total of 120 tokens in the game. Chakra has a similar energy/token taking ...

Similar to matches played in friendly mode, wins in solo mode are not calculated as total wins at the moment. That makes a lot of sense, since many solo mode games only ends with victory, not to mention players can just quit to avoid a loss. Win rate, just like elo, is a measurement of skill, and th...

The sooner you utilize the quit button on this percentage meter, the more you can reduce your opponent's gains, the amount of points you give in exchange is the same regardless of when you use this option. While the winning player does receive less elo gain, the quitter will lose the amount of elo ...

If a player declined to abandon the game collectively, the proposer won't be able to make the same proposal for a certain period. I'm not exactly sure how long that period is, but it definitely lasts more than 2 minutes. It's technically impossible to spam the abandon proposal.

In round 1 the starting player is obviously random (unless it's a rematch). In round 2 and 3, whoever took the last card in the last round becomes the new starting player. That being said, the distribution of starting players is close to random, since the players have almost no control on when each ...