Board Game Arena

Very interesting idea. I've also thought about what to do about the randomness of getting the last piece safely across the water. It seems like nobody has tried to implement a new version of Senet or adding this option to the current version though, in the 2 years and 2 weeks since the last comment ...

I don't know how to achieve it but the pool of people voting on the formats needs to be wider or the options need to rotate more. Currently people who don't like a format of a game chosen for Arena don't play in arena so don't become gurus meaning their preferred mode doesn't get chosen next time. ...

Among all the crazy ideas here (unlimited dice rolls until you get your perfect score), limiting bathroom access to premium members is probably when I realized that you were taking me for a ride. I admit it, you got me. Well played, BGA!

I would assume that the game designers would know. But they are probably not on here?

But as I said, the rating change depends on the developer. If you want to go for 1/2/3/4, it's your call. Thank you very much for all the info, in the above post and previous ones! I see now that Daybreak has disabled ELO completely. Whatever system is chosen, having some form of ELO does at least ...

So I don't agree that option B is the worst one, At least all active co-op devs agree as literally nobody's using it for 2 years. I'm happy to hear that - having a similar approach and approximate "value" of a win measures in ELO is more important than the actual number. The current numbe...

I designed the current Solar Storm rating system and it doesn't award extra rating to players with less than 100 rating. Perhaps you played the version before update (which was done a year ago) then. And honestly, that old ELO emulation is plain bad as players can lose rating even on a WIN. For exa...

I checked the statistics again... and in fact the average was quite affected by fast losses. I even found 2-move losses. (facepalm) This is a family game with many players that are not experienced with abstract games and logic. So they might need to find out the hard way that it's necessary to let ...

So probably our core discussion is whether should we a bit increase ELO, for example, make it 15 points to regular mode, to make it a bit less tough for players that played a game a month. The large differences in ELO "rewards" between co-op games is frustrating, and I completely understa...

I'd love to help with test driving new features! I can tick some of the boxes mentioned in previous posts, like Alpha tester, bug report submitter, regular player on mobile (Android) and PC (Win10), translator and avid player of as many titles as possible. I'm not a developer, but I have some backgr...