Board Game Arena

I think the easiest way to "stabilize" ELO would be to lock in a player's highest reached ELO for a particular game. It has to be understood that ELO and similar systems are designed to rank players in games containing no random elements, i.e. chess and go. Understanding this, the ELO syst...

It is functionally impossible to kick someone from a game of TTA: A New Story for playing slowly as every time you push the "skip players out of time" button (when they are already out of time), they are given 20 seconds. That may not seem like a big deal, but as turns involve MANY clicks ...

I actually think letting the person choose it prevents players from getting confused about what is happening. Too much automation isn't always a good thing. It only takes a second for them to click. I'd say a bigger issue in a lot of games is players are given way too much time to make their moves.....

Edit: apparently club members can create tournaments so I have just deleted my post. I didn't realize that. That's pretty cool.

Elo Decay or resetting Elo are terrible options! Either one destroys what we've worked very hard to gain. I primarily only play from Oct-Mar because, while I love board games, I'd rather be outside when the weather is nice...you shouldn't punish me by decaying my Elo when I'm not active. I won't su...

Just make 2 separate rankings, turn based and real time, than also my idea would work :) It is also such a different way of play, you may say it requires totally different skills…reality is that BG's are played live, an evening, a sunday afternoon…and that requires the skill of being faster than yo...

all you players are trying different methiods which is good for some but not others.its impossible for ELO TO WORK MAKE ALL HAPPY.wHY OVER/OVER I SAY make simple win/losses with the Percentage.Then it is what it is.Thks again for listening .P.S SURE make lots of less work for BGA. I agree that not ...

I would like to add that I think latexrhombus's meaning of "unranked players" may have been misunderstood. As someone who does believe ELO decay should affect everyone (not just the top-ranked players), based on his posts I think he is referring to players that are not ranked due to inact...

I do understand this point. And I should be on your side (maybe?) because I would potentially not be getting ELO decay. But it does feel wrong to have some cutoff above which players are penalized. Firstly, it sucks for those players. Secondly, it just feels really arbitrary. I think removing the t...

I hope this doesn't degrade into players just insulting each other. Glitter and Doom is a great participant on this site (both in terms of playing games, and in participating in bug reports/discussions). I did see him report the unranked trophy bug, and I am convinced that he hasn't tried to game t...