Board Game Arena

Main cause there is that COOP GAMES HAVE NO RANKING/ELO system at all. Why? I don't know. Mean answer is because BGA hate coop games. Maybe people think coop games are for kids, not smart enough for REAL games. Some might try convince that ELO can't be made for coop games. All that is bullshit. Coo...

Players who have only played 5-10 games barely know anything yet and don't have to care much if they choose a bad format, it's not like they really have to deal with it. Also, if someone wants to troll, they can just play a few games and pick a bad option for giggles. They can even make 10 accounts...

I actually agree with the principles written here that gurus shouldn't be based off Arena itself, because then Arena becomes self-fulfilling that players will keep voting for the same format, but having mostly players who don't care about Arena is not ideal either, when the main purpose of being a ...

Could be you had the 200 XP in a game, that is no longer on the platform.

That means it wasn't given any strategy advice but simply told to play the game a huge number of times and find out when it happens to win against itself, gaining an immense understanding of game positions and strategy but not necessarily of tactics or logic, right? So would an LLM just try to find...

I always wonder, if the people complaining about "gg" being mean or insincere also go off on people IRL who say "good morning" and correct them, that it is actually a bad morning.

When it comes to small things that aren't bugs, but still irrationally annoy me (specifically in Sagani): the "use ALT+mouse wheel to zoom the board" overlay when scrolling down the page. Yes, I am aware how to zoom the board, but I want to scroll and now I can't see what I actually want t...

BGA provides no way to give feedback about the tournament structure, other than entering temporarily so you can post in the tournament chat, saying why it's a bad structure, then withdrawing. But some may find that obnoxious. Why not just message the tournament host? As long as you word it politely...

Exactly - let’s not forget that the code of conduct only forbids “kingmaking” if “there is a better move to make for yourself.” Related to that, some players seem to think that playing for second place (when you can't win) is kingmaking. If I know or believe I cannot win, I don't care if first plac...

As for Hanabi, yeah, personally I wouldn't touch that game with a 10-foot pole. I haven't played it on this site, but I've read enough posts to know that I would likely be lambasted by my fellow players. Apparently there are pre=agreed-upon conventions, and I don't know them, so that would be a dis...