Board Game Arena

Most of the times the people complaining are not very good at the game. They are still entitled to have an opinion. But sometimes it might not be the maps fault that you are losing by a large margin. Or only partially. Is it unfair that someone has a better map? Yes. But the same can be said about t...

Can we also talk about how stupid a pure elo system is for a high variance game? Like, how can I lose 2 games of progress for tieing a strong player? You did not tie the game, but lost. You can complain about the tie breaker, but this is just a loss. It sucks because most of the time tie breakers i...

Can we also talk about how stupid a pure elo system is for a high variance game? Like, how can I lose 2 games of progress for tieing a strong player? You did not tie the game, but lost. You can complain about the tie breaker, but this is just a loss. It sucks because most of the time tie breakers i...

If both players agree you can cancel the game. I think that is the only thing you can do. If it is 500 vs 100 ELO then both might agree. So you might just ask if they want to play.
I do not think arena player base is large enough for anything else.

So lets compare the player base of league of legends and a game on bga... 10 minutes is not going to be enough. For lower elo it might be, but not for the top players. For lots of games the queue time is already quite long, without any restrictions. You could also just ask the opponent to abort the ...

There is a cost to what you want: a longer wait time. The player base is not that huge, so who do you think the top players should be paired against? 700 elo vs 500 +? 300? That is a way smaller pool of players. Not all of them play arena. Not all in your time zone. If the queue time gets too long, ...

I am actually opposed to drafting: - picking 4 out of 8 is sometimes an interesting puzzle. You can chose cards with synergies, craft your early game strategy - also there is some luck in the game anyway, which cards show up, are drawn randomly. End game goal cards have varying difficulty etc. so it...

Arena is usually more competitive, so I guess the chance of playing against high elo players is higher. That is where most of the addicted live... :-) It also makes sense that you cannot filter who you will be playing against, there is always a way to abuse such a system. And always people who will....

In arena you are paired against random opponents, there is no filter. You can play against people with a lower elo, or a higher one, it is completely random. And the settings are the settings for that arena season, which you cannot change. So that "hack" is just that setting the filter for...

There can be lots of reasons for diffenrences in average placement of characters: As a newbie myself I find 2 character powers very easy to use / gain a benefit from. Getting free ressources from Mercator is one of them. So right from the start, having little knowledge of the game, he helped a lot. ...