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"It's not the same as chess, the result is not just win/lose."

The possible results in chess are in fact the same as the possible results in Ark Nova. Win, lose and draw. What am I missing?

I admire your contemplative attitude in the face of sure defeat. I'm just frustrated usually.

It's not a big deal at all. I'm happy to concede or be conceded against. Go do something more productive with your time. Chess games which can last multiple times longer than the longest AN game have this feature built in to no one's displeasure. Bifurcating the player base with settings of allow co...

Use the Play Now page to configure the settings and launch the game. That should work 100% of the time.

He was going to win in 3 moves. The whole thing is very strange.

I experience the same issues. I have tried Sam’s advice but it only works a small percentage of the time. The most reliable workaround for me is unlocking the iPhone orientation and selecting the card while in landscape view. It’s a super frustrating issue and has accounted for at least one expulsio...

I bet Free Range Monkeys is still >50% winrate universally since its so bad that even lower ELO players wouldn't play it. Also I bet its super complicated card explanation leads to lower rated players playing it less often-->so more cases of higher rated players playing it only when favorable. Gosh,...

I think everyone would prefer to be able to perform a legal move. The game already blocks you from initiating illegal actions all the time (eg greyed out actions buttons), so any hinting at the move’s possibility is no change to game dynamics. In previous threads you’d stated that it’s just complex ...

FWIW if you do a search of Ark Nova bugs and contains "commercial harbor" you will find many variations of this bug. Most surprising to me is that the response you received didn't seem to have indicated knowing the pre-existing nature of it.

The replay for that table does prompt with an option to play a second 2-size, implying it does in fact utilize the engineer ability. If it is this table, the only explanation I can think of for OP’s confusion is that they wanted to place it over a spot requiring build upgrade but were not allowed be...

I think you also could have been more efficient with your first round's build and animal actions. Instead of playing the 1-size next to water you could have played a 2-size on the sponsor-for-money and bought either sponsor. Next turn build a 1 size next to water, and then play both slow worm and ko...