Board Game Arena

What's wrong with friendly mode?

Maybe they could mention it in the tool tips they show to orient new members. I don't know, my suggestion is to implement something to stop these fools from ruining everybody's lobby and wasting everybody's time hopping in and out aborting everybody's games just because they don't know how to restri...

Some games take a while to find enough players, so it helps to open a few at a time while you wait. And the effort is ALL wasted by these players who hop around in and out of tables aborting each game when someone with low ELO joins. We really need a way to encourage these players to adjust the ELO ...

For what it's worth, I can tell you that the official site is full of Friendly Robber fascists. If you go there instead, be prepared to have your game ruined by team play whenever possible, if you rob anyone before 3pts. There is no FR setting, and nobody will ASK if you want to play FR, but neverth...

Have you written a better one they could use instead?

This is pretty simple. It's unreasonable to penalize a player's reputation for time running out, when the reason is usually the site notifications malfunctioning.

DOH! Sorry. I didn't realize it was solo ONLY. I didn't know there even was such a thing

I can accomplish this through a search of All Games, expanding the "Filters" tab so that selections for Number of Players can be accessed, and then choosing Solo.