Board Game Arena

There are some general ideas first: Upgrade assoc if you're rich and need a way to turn $ into points, also upgrade it more on maps with 2CP reward for last worker or last zoo Upgrade sponsors if your economy is weak -- assoc, build and animals cost $, but Sponors can earn money and play cards for f...

1st-player advantage is a real issue among stronger players, but it's difficult to solve. My guess is that the advantage stems mostly from things like first-round Wrasse, Wolf/Stork/etc release, early diversity project and so forth, and that basically, there are a relatively small number of games wh...

Thanks JD! I checked my settings and it turned out that they were too restrictive. Of course, it took a little while to FIND my settings, but that's another story

Thanks, that's really helpful to hear. The system says the time to find a game will be ~1m, so when I leave it open for 5-10m and don't find a game I wonder if something is wrong. Knowing it can take hours resets my expectations.

Does anyone play Arena turn-based instead of live? I have tried to join/create a turn-based Arena game many times, and I've only succeeded in getting a game very rarely.

The scoring is a bit different from the printed game - it's 0/3/6/12/18/24 instead of 1/3/6/10/15/21 iirc