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Sinnerman88 wrote: ↑28 October 2026, 03:20 Please fix this problem that everybody complains about.

A few people complain about it regularly. Everybody would be a lot more noisey considering that roughly 5,000 games a day of Catan are played on the site.

Here are the rules for search from pg 14 of the rulebook. Rulebook Search: If an apprentice was assigned to the worker chip, players can pay a sum of 10 money and/or inspiration to look through the deck for a single card, looking only at the back of each card for either the instrument type, musical ...

How is it that we have been stuck with the same set of arena rules for yet another session? There is no place in arena for "friendly robber". The problems with this setting have been documented throughout this thread and others. Worse is the continued play with only 3 as opposed to 4 play...

2p is quite a different game. The ability to have two pawns/turns per round and ultimately to be able to sequence up to four turns in a row changes the play-style quite significantly. It's still the same game, but much more focus goes onto planning and chaining turns together rather than simply find...

There might be a solution: simply blocking the chat whenever you play against someone who has "blocked" you. That way, if there was any prior offense, communication is no longer possible. This might work for Mountain Goats, but dipping into other games forums you'll find people using red ...

Well, I've always been happy with the dice anyway, but looking at the way the Dice deck is set up it's spectacularly bizzare. - A stack with 36 cards is build. On these cards the results of 2 dices are written based on the expected statistical probabilities: 2=1; 3=2x; 4=3x; 5=4x; 6=5x; 7=6x; 8=5x; ...

lexistenz wrote: ↑01 October 2026, 20:01 is designed like this, players that pay premium have better rolls. Much better rolls. Pay to win.

No, it isn't.

Game speed is already handled by the turn timer. If you want a quick game; set it low, want to agonise over your decisions; set it high. This is a different concern entirely. I don't think it is, because there's no requirement to use all your timer, and no endless bank to put it in. A game with a 3...

This is a pretty common feeling among players, hence all the threads and all the believers that only look at overall stats and not how individual games are affected. I'm not sure it is a common feeling. Because there have been 7.5 million games played on BGA and there are only 163 backgammon theads...

Every one of these threads ends up with people pointing out the stats on the dice rolls. What is left out of the frustration-discussion is the timeliness of the dice rolls in comparison to what was forced on the board. There are scenarios that will force you to leave a solo when you'd rather not. I...