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If you hoover over your elo in that game it says ELO variation: 0. It also says "You cannot lose ELO when a player quits the game". And it calculates what would have been your ELO loss: (-0,25), (-0,26), (+0,25). This is because the game only accounts for 14% of the game elo variation as i...

Simplicity is important, and I have not seen a strong reason as to why 1 extra food for 4th seat would be too strong. We have a wonderful digital implementation that can give us new winrate stats if the rule change is approved, and I’m all in favor of that. Agree. It's simpler, one doesn't have to ...

I think the community is still a bit too lenient, especially on the minors. Removing unexciting cards barely working even in strats they supposed to be good in, or way overpriced cards that are at best a weak gamble, makes drafts more interesting. I am honestly happy with any banlist that expands o...

Thank you to the last few posters for the detailed reasoning behind their choices. I wouldn’t miss any of the aforementioned cards except for wool blankets (very viable in any 2 room strategy). Coming to think of it, except for the minors that give points, I have never played any of those cards. Ever.

Strongly disagree with reducing the banlist. If anything, I would add a couple of cards to it. Annoyance wise, I’d put all the cards that allow growth without “Wish for Children” flipping ahead of Lodger. Not that they are overpowered by themselves, but they just turn the game into a lottery. Thinki...

One added benefit of lists such as this one is that it levels the playing filed a little bit. And it does so only on the bottom of the field where less experienced players will be “forced” to make less mistakes in the draft. I reckon that in this game, drafting correctly is another layer of skill bu...

Thank you, Acerbic. This banlist update was badly needed.

Updating the banlist is really important and it was a shame that it was not updated this current season. My own take is: Definite Bans: Craft Teacher, Freshman, Child Ombudsman, Teacher's Desk and Recruitment Prefered Bans: Tree Guard, Guest Room, Royal Wood, Pulvurizer Plow, Carpenter's Bench and C...

Love the site. Love the implementation of the game I play. But I too have decided to stop being a premium member a couple of months ago, just because of the issues discussed in this thread. Not only the issues themselves, but the way this thread has been handled. I find it baffling. Just no feedback...

There are cards that let you discard other cards from your hand, for example: Illusinist - "Each time you use a building resource accumulation space, you can discard exactly 1 card from your hand to get 1 additional building resource of the accumulating type." So, the second part of the te...