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To revive this thread: Lumin's upcoming tournament adds a bunch of extra bans. I can agree they all deserve a ban more generally. The cards are: Occupations: Craft Teacher, Child Ombudsman, Freshman, Informant, Tree Guard Minor Improvements: Teacher’s Desk, Recruitment, Carpenter’s Bench, Carpenter...

I haven't played this on BGA since Upstairs Downstairs was added and find I am constantly forgetting to use my extra servants until it is too late. Once I get the rewards from hosting an activity it is too late to undo and add an optional servant like the cook, even if no hidden information has been...

Acerbic wrote: ↑10 January 2024, 14:13 I did an emergency ban of Recruitment, since it was added last-minute, could not be discussed and seems especially egregious. Of course this is up for discussion, although I doubt a lot of people will be advocating for it to be unbanned.

Thank you!

Agree Recruitment needs to be banned ASAP. What a silly card. I had to read it three times to make sure I wasn't missing anything because I was sure a card like this would be insta-banned.

I have recently been in a number of games with a certain player who has either been booted or nearly booted and received a timer penalty in every game. This player plays LOTS of Agricola, at all times of the day (over 1,100 games played in less than two years of having an active account). Yet despit...

Instead of taking 200 pounds or refreshing the builders market on a pass you can activate the servant hiring room with the butler to hire servants.

There is an inconsistency in the way BGA summarizes the Nature Group objective with the way the text reads on the card, and I'm wondering which way it scores in practice. Here are the wordings: BGA Summary: 11VP for Flower Room and either English Garden or French Garden Card Text: Flower room & ...

I had this problem, and it has to do with your settings. Make sure you have Display Hand Cards "in a modal window" or "bottom of the screen" checked, not "under the board."

I find it very strange that, while all other Elo brackets (apprentice, good player, etc) are indicated under a player's name in the games in progress screen, players with average Elo just have this field left blank. Is there a reason for this? For some reason it's jarring to me

Yeah, 5pts is certainly on the high end of a card's power level, but it isn't a certain 5pts and is comparable to cards like bonehead that just give you 6w (where wood is worth approximately 2/3pt in my estimation). I would still prefer wood barterer, which can give you something like 8w or 10w with...