Board Game Arena

My group of experienced Carcassonne players plays almost all our games w/ the strategic variant. Allows for way more complicated planning ahead on all sides by taking some of the immediate luck factor out of it. For example if you have a double road you can wait to use it until you have a crossroads...

I think a "problem" with ELO on BGA is that you cannot have it separate for different time period / real time games. In an ideal world it would be training - no ELO (as is currently) and real-time vs. turn-based vs. NTL ELO. But having ELO is still better than not so taking it away complet...

Reading the replies from the admins - I'm really concerned about the lack of seemingly any empathy for the 24 pages of concerns / comments raised in the two threads. I think if we just undestood why the change was made, why it can't be changed back, or a different option provided based on the feedba...

Adding my voice to supporting this reversion to allow NTL for turn based w/ friends. Very strongly support. And please let's not hijack this thread as well w/ the same points made in the other thread, ELO points, training mode is good enough, 2days should be more than enough, we have vacation availa...

I don't agree with the folks who seem to be bashing ELO usage w/ friends. I think ELO is valuable even when playing against a smallish group cause it gives a quick easy way to gauge your standings in the game instead of having to drill down and see that John is beating Billy 78-52 head to head but i...

Premium User and first time poster here adding my voice requesting the reversal of this change. As all the points seem to have already been made I don't think I'll be able to add anything else, but this change seems to make most users almost universally unhappy. So what's the point of the change? It...