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The other platform offers the opportunity to play against bots on those specific games while BGA does not. This will sound very pedantic to you, I'm sure, but that other platform doesn't offer bots, the individual games on it do. Likewise, Apple and Android aren't offering bots either, but some of ...

What I preferred about the * platform vs. BGA is that if you just wanted to play a quick game and didn't have time or want to wait around for REAL players, you could choose to play against a bot or a mixture of bots and real people, which tended to reduce the wait time for real players. ALSO - if y...

Declining a rematch, IMO, is not grounds for a red thumb. Agreeing to play one online game with a stranger on BGA does not constitute a commitment to play all rematch games that stranger might request. The obligation is one game at a time. That's it. I've had players ask me for a rematch on many occ...

What I preferred about the * platform vs. BGA is that if you just wanted to play a quick game and didn't have time or want to wait around for REAL players, you could choose to play against a bot or a mixture of bots and real people, which tended to reduce the wait time for real players. ALSO - if yo...

ringersoll wrote: ↑21 May 2023, 00:31 IMO, reporting someone, unless it is really, really flagrant and abusive, does not do any good.

That was what I was thinking as well. Thanks for the confirmation! I like your approach to the sore loser. I'll have to try that if it happens again

After beating another player with a MUCH higher ELO at Carcassone, said player called me a "scrub" in the chat. Said "Scrubs get so lucky" and "It must be nice." Seemed borderline aggressive to me. Clearly, his/her ego was bent out of shape losing to a lower-ranked play...

Agree! I used to play on Steam and loved the Europe, 1910, Switzerland and Asia games. We also have the Old West and France map boards at home - would be fun to see them come to BGA too.

Most of the Carcassones games I've played with on this site do that and it's been very frustrating for me. I've been playing Carcassone since the 90s but only recently started playing it on this site - and I've actually started wondering if I've been playing it wrong or if I somehow missed the point...