Board Game Arena

by dizinovi » 20 October 2026, 10:53 ... You already complained about a player faster than you, publicly. ... No, that's not the point. The point is that the chat is not really a channel to vent frustration. Merlin's pointing out that people are hassling him with annoying "hurry up" messa...

It happens. I notice my own play speed varies in real-time games. Some games are pretty straightforward and there's little question about the overall strategy and sequencing, and then I play fast. It also happens that somehow I end under huge pressure in the game. Imagine playing a plant strategy an...

The important thing in your comment: Where the tie is between 2 players , head-to-head results as tiebreakers would be much better. This score differential tiebreaker features only in Round Robin group stages of tournaments with 2p games. It seems to be a standard setting for that format. (Perhaps i...

The theme cropped up before: https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50303, and you'll read a couple of views here as well. One question that comes to mind: if the goal is to reduce variance, how would the current set-up compare to 2p base game only? My hunch is that it is even more skill-d...

For what it's worth: I have 4 tourney games on with random map settings. Two on Tharsis, one of Vastitas, one on Hellas. Elysium is missing. Tharsis is grossly overrepresented :-) What you describe sounds like the clustering illusion. A particular map may show up disproportionately often in a small ...

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?