Board Game Arena

I have experimented with this as well. For your desired structure a minimum of 63 players would have been ideal so that everyone gets to play Stage 1. Like you said, one group only had 2 players so they automatically advance. I made a 8 group tournament with 32/32 signups and 4 players from each gro...

Thinking time for real time games changes over time based on average player behavior.

My understanding is that players are now taking a bit longer on average to play games, even in fast mode and the clocks were running low often.

Perhaps the new cards have made players think more and slow down?

The ability to play a game "slowly" in turn-based at my own pace is practical on BGA, not practical for irl board gaming. This, in addition to the automated setup and rules handling makes playing board games regularly practical for a wide variety of busy people. This also fixes some of the...

What will happen if i summon and activate g0blin (steal 1p from opponent and give it to yourself) if my opponent has exactly one point? Will i get point and will my opponent go to zero points? Hi Andrei, how Goblin works is explained well on the wiki: https://valeofeternity.wiki.gg/wiki/Goblin The ...

The best way to make a strong board game bot is the machine learning method with a high number of self-play games and many iterations like many of the Chess engines have done or like Google's AlphaGo. I honestly doubt that a regular person would have enough computing resources to replicate this on a...

Why use a LLM to do a custom logic task like playing a board game when it could be manually coded instead? What an extreme waste of resources for an LLM, just make a lean bot that is focused on the single task or use machine learning. LLMs are for LANGUAGE, not logic. If you want mastery in a specif...

Void Mage doesn't remove a signet, it removes a modifier or ongoing effect. It is generally used to flip the outcome of an encounter. It is not really overpowered because to use the effect you need to lose the encounter for it to activate and it requires a proper setup where it can flip an encounter...

To be fair, done well, tournaments should make them money. Players love competition, a thriving tournament scene will draw more players to play those tournaments, which in turn will lead to more subscriptions. I would say that tournament COULD make BGA money if they were implemented with that in mi...

sylvancord I watched almost all of his match history and found that he basically didn't need to think, and seemed to know what cards and tokens would appear next. Therefore, I reasonably suspect that he used some kind of cheating tool. He registered his account on March 15th and is now about to rea...

The FAQ was written long ago. The "players can't be skipped" option was added since then. I find this defence of the site fascinating. They charge people for premium in order to maintain the game. Please don’t argue that all the money they make goes towards servers, because they are const...