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Jellby wrote: ↑25 June 2026, 18:32 I think it's much more likely that some players are being favored for their good karma from previous lives, or by some deity or other...

Hahahaha good point

@Chionti Thanks for your reply, I understand your point, and I don’t take it as an attack. However, my intention was never to compare myself to specific players or argue about who is better. That’s not the point I was making. What I’m referring to are specific patterns and possible unintended behavi...

Also, one last thing from me. I’ve never seen you in the game, and I don’t even know if you’ve played Marco Polo at all, but I do find it interesting how invested you are in this discussion, especially with the number of long replies. Yeah I just feel drawn to threads like this. It's the subject in...

[...] You’re arguing against a full rigging system I never even claimed 😄 I clearly mentioned unintended behavior. So are you saying it is systematically favoring a specific group of players or not? Because unintended behaviour cannot systematically favor a specific group of players if * there's no...

You’re arguing against a full “AI cheating system” that I never claimed. Actually I said mid-level-AI-functionality. Not full. I’m talking about observed patterns in actual games, not developer intent (it could just as well be a bug or something unintended). Either there IS assessment of who the pl...

Interestingly, when you scored 500 points ELO, did you notice that the site was helping you? And as I checked now I haven’t 😂 You don't have 500 ELO now, but you did it earlier, because you have this trophy. But now you're not writing about big ELO, but about the fact that the advantage goes to the...

The thing is: for what you say is happening to actually happen - that would REQUIRE the developer to implement some mid-level-AI-functionality into their game to analyze what's good and what's bad for one player and to process player-information to find out which player to favor. That's many-many h...

I assume you have also informed the developer of this game to notify them about this thread where you accuse them of spending hours of development-time on top of their game-implementation to add a game-status-analyzer and randomizer-cheating-machanism. Given in how many games on BGA accusations aga...

Interestingly, when you scored 500 points ELO, did you notice that the site was helping you? That’s not really addressing what I said. I’m not talking about individual wins or losses, but repeated patterns across many high level players. Funny though, I give so much importance to titles and ELO, th...

You’re trying to reduce everything I’m saying to “paranoia”, but that’s just an easy way to avoid actually addressing the point. I’m not claiming some obvious or programmed favoritism. I’m talking about repeated patterns over a large number of high-level games — patterns that are too consistent to j...