Board Game Arena

Personally, I don't think so. Of course if you get 3 Animateurs and 3 Power2 Newcomers is great, but any deck with 2 good synergy cards and 3 copies of each will be great. The point is that Animateur is a variation of makeup artist. You get the +1 permanently (instead of the +2 during the attack), h...

I (as a player, not dev) always assumed that they ordered the list of cards and once it empties, it is reshuffled among all non-picked cards. Based on that, I feared that the first player to click "draw cards" can sometimes get "unseen" cards, while other players might get reshuf...

The use of different trophy values was answered by designers arguing that since that is a party game, they didn't want the outcome to be known beforehand and keep the drama until the end. I wonder though, if playing on Arena especially, we could have an option that gets rid of this randomness and ju...

I would argue that 4p is the "best competitive way that still keeps the spirit of the game" while 2p is simply the "most competitive", but I wouldn't mind having one season as 2p. 6p and 8p are out of the question, besides the long waiting times, on high player counts getting dup...

I have only played a few games on solo and for me the biggest issue is that the robot deck never changes. There are some effects that are good only because they are unexpected, but if you know them you can work around pretty easily. Robogram is the most clear case, where you can cut one card and you...

Going a different direction here, the card that I struggle the most to make it work is Cook. Cook is one of the weakest cards of deck B and can only sinergyze with AI, which means that you will be already doing a 2 for 1 whenever cook appears against an average B card. The goal of cook is to compens...

I second that, I don't know if people does it on purpose, but it is very annoying. I have seen that a common behavior is to watch the other park, and once it ends they start playing. Watching the other park is cool for strategy but I think it is more intended as quick look, not a perfect analysis of...

How are players starting off as low, med, high? Are you using their elo or was that just for purpose of an example? At 1st glance this seems flawed. It assumes that everyone can get equal matches vs every tier player and that is not the case. I play in some games with small communities in which the...

Can you give an actual example of 2 players using your system? Is their strength being calculated at the time the game occurred or by what their rank is at the end of the season? All games are calculated at the end of the season? Hi, for implementation I think the easier way would be to compute the...

This system was designed for chess (an all skill game) but it is being applied here to all games with varying luck factors. If you have a 400elo and a 200elo player the rate at which the 400 elo player is supposed to beat the 200elo player clearly has to change due to luck factor of the game but th...