Board Game Arena

The dice roll on this platform is NOT Random. I can NEVER be convinced it is random. I have played more than 1200 games of Catan on this platform ( I shut down my premium account and went back to a free account) and I have played enough games to know it is NOT random. I am 100% with you. In fact a ...

Having also raised concern about dice fixing, cheating, or just dice being otherwise rigged/broken, I promise the forums here usually doesn't have an ear to hear it. you got a little team of "it's all random" guys that pounce on anyone who gets hosed. But I hear you. I believe you. I've be...

Update: I don't think players are straight rigging numbers, but if they know what script the game is running they are taking advantage of it. Catan is not a dice game. It's a resource game and an attack game. Player behavior, not strict number distribution, discloses cheating and conversely fairplay...

Update: I apologize to any I accused of cheating, I don't think it's players, I DO believe the dice are fundamentally broken though. I shared 2 games I thought were suspect (https://boardgamearena.com/table?table=597929278 and https://boardgamearena.com/table?table=600144650), but after looking at t...

Adding to the pile of requests to make this include the expansion for 5-6 players! :D Adding on again! I played Catan over the Thanksgiving break with family and the 5-6 player expansion with 5 players (cities and knights) is the BEST CATAN version there is. The map is big, the gameplay is faster (...

I'm all for it. This is a copy for the game I just lost (guess who wasn't built on 10), which felt really fishy. I stop short of accusing one of the other players of fixing the dice, but I can't say they didn't either. The point being it would be very much easier to detect actual cheating/dice riggi...

I ran into this yesterday, thought I was trading with one player and it ended up trading with the other. Wasn't game breaking, but was annoying.

Arena so far has been base game, which makes sense, and Cities and Knights has only been out on here since summer, but I'd like to play arena with Cities and Knights. I suspect running only a C&K arena would make some people furious, so propose running a separate arena for C&K if possible. T...

How does one recognize this while playing? I had no idea this was even possible. It will flag one of them usually as playing from the same IP, and they will have the same country tag. Also read whatever text is connected to a red exclamation point by one or both of their names. Granted I play somet...

Player ###### declined to start, like 10 times in a row. Am I wrong in thinking you can adjust preferences to suit the game modes/settings you're actually willing to play? Would save them and me lots of time if they didn't come to the table unwilling to play the game they joined. I don't get people ...