Board Game Arena

I went from unassailable 1st place to an irrecoverable 4th place in 1 round because I misclicked the enclosure by one pixel and placed a dinosaur into an occupied pen instead of the empty one, causing multiple buildings and fences lost, multiple scandals, multiple visitors killed. I would definitely...

However, and I'll speak here from the perspective of a high-ranked player who is aware that his experiences are not representative of the overall player base: The pronounced differences in playing strength between opponents makes Arena extremely tiresome and frustrating. In short: Elite League is n...

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The person from the Work Permit disappeared without giving me an opportunity to play it.

Playerbase is too small. That's one of the consistent problems with arena. Half my games are matched with people 500+ ELO lower. I literally gain less than 1 ELO point and 1 arena point from such games, and it's not even a remotely fun or interesting match. Sadly, no, there's no way to stop this fro...

Unfortunately, no. This is one of my major criticisms of Uwe as a designer - he does not acknowledge the importance of variable turn order in competitive play. I love and own many of his games, and I house-rule almost all of them with variable turn order, but BGA stays faithful to the designer's and...

How about chain float? It's just so vastly superior to almost every plow in the game. It's no requirements, no actions needed, 3 wood for 3 fields. That's like 5 to 6 points. Timing-wise there's opportunity cost in needing wood early, of course, but it's a really crazy return on investment which doe...

This is indeed a serious downside of current tournament play. It makes 3p and 4p games literally unplayable if you're a high elo player, since timing someone out and grabbing a tie for first is obviously the most dominant (and uncounterable strategy). I've been in 10/12 day tournaments with the game...

Play a lot of games (arena or not). Once (if) you become a guru, you can propose changes and vote. I know the official instructions, but how can I be a master?I play it every day and ELO is in the top 100. I have played 300 games, and am top 10 ELO, but they still don't make me a guru for LRA so I ...

There are a good number of games where turns themselves are generally very fast, but the setup includes a hefty amount of drafting, selection, and/or placement which requires many times more consideration. As it stands, the time limits currently used are not just overly punitive to the starting play...

I just have the same problem. I was winning in a kingdomino tournament game. It was the last trun. One of the player didn't play on time his last tile. As a result I am eliminated ! That's not fair when it's the last turn especialy and we can easily count the points... Why not chosing the winner wi...