Board Game Arena

One question I’m curious about: does anyone know how score differentials worked out here on BGA (or elsewhere) between players of similar Elo/skill levels? I have no idea whether at some point in the past Arena games featured a non-draft setting. My suspicion is that equally rated players would see ...

I have 7 games on at the moment. Frankly, that’s just a few more than I’d ideally have. I signed up for a couple of 2p and 3p tournaments – and then suddenly they start, next rounds begin for older tourneys, a round robin kicks off, you finish a game in an elimination tourney and the next game start...

One thing that struck me: the bot did attract plenty of very strong players who happily kept on playing against it. I'm more in the modest skill range and played 1 game, and left it at that - but plenty of much stronger players carried on playing multiple games. For a learning AI bot, that makes a s...

The statistics that I see (https://www.tfmstats.com/corporations) suggest Interplanetary Cinematics and Saturn Systems are equally "overpowered". Only Point Luna has a higher win rate for players with 500+ Elo. Remove that selection for expert players, and Interplanetary Cinematics turns o...

Premium games like TfM can only be started by players with a premium membership. The bot itself was a "premium member". That setup allowed everyone else to play against it for free, without needing a premium membership. Could revenue protection be a reason to ban the bot?

What would the experts do with this tarting hand? https://boardgamearena.com/table?table=890488859 Go full crazy gamble on Jovians (which failed)? Or , something else? Technically, BGA calls me an "Expert", albeit at the lower reaches of the expertise hill :-) Galilean Mining comes with a...

The games are all in Friendly mode and so no one gains or loses Elo - seems fine to me for people wanting to play a game against what is in essence a chess computer equivalent for TfM. I cannot speak for BGA, but it seems no one gets an unfair advantage in any way from playing this bot, and it simpl...

Tolik – I think you’ve moved into a different dimension – pretty incredible to see such monster scores. I’ve carried on with base game only, and after remaining “stuck” in the 170s range for high scores, I’ve had a few higher scores than that on Amazonis. 224 VP – Credicor - https://boardgamearena.c...

On Amazonis, I've gone for a peak of 173 VP. Base game only, 16 generations: https://boardgamearena.com/table?table=879229651 The full stats for my experiment with Amazonis Planitia solo, base game only: 8 games 1 fail (Thorgate, abandoned) and as scores for the other 7 games: 152 - Saturn Systems 1...

I've never played Solo on that map but it seems fun. Maybe I'll give it a try. So, no expansions on that map you get 16 generations? Yes. I didn't know upfront, and when generation 15 started, I hadn't seen a "last generation" warning, but did a quick internet search giving as result, inc...