Board Game Arena

I'm trying to work through the wiki, but even the very first step which is all GUI based gets an error. I created a project, pressed play, created a table in training mode and pressed express start. I get this error. Unexpected error: Wrong formatted data from gameserver 1 (method: createGame): JSON...

This used to be the person currently losing the battle decides first, but behavior seems to have changed. What is the rule now?

Would be nice if we could make arena into 2 player

I’m pretty sure none of the top elo players will play 4p as it’s much higher variance and the incentive to pick on the best player increases that effect

Most players play 7 cube with void, I like totally random maps

Sure, although in this case it is about both. I'm looking for input on this bug (does a report exist, is it a known thing - search didn't bring anything up), but I don't feel its inappropriate to name an abusive player. Maybe others have experienced the same, or will in the future, and will find thi...

Hi, Recently I was playing a game against CraWieR, 4 minutes per turn. We are ranked 2 and 4, so we were both taking the game very seriously. Near the end of the game this player was having trouble deciding on moves, so when I asked them to commit to a decision once their clock ran out they started ...

You may have misread where I said paying for playing. Obviously the main reason we play is for fun but for me competition and the chase is fun. Working hard on a game and being stuck behind someone who got to number 1 years ago and only playing in ranked games since then is frustrating. Not saying i...

Yeah multiplayer is fun.

I jump into multiplayer games on rare occasions just sucks knowing that 70% of the time I lose 50 points and 25% I gain 2

I feel your pain. I stopped paying for BGA for a while because I feel they really are unfair with ratings. I started again because I want to support their work. A year or two ago they changed the way they calculate ELO changes, so the top of the many leaderboards are people who were on a lucky strea...

Its a great game and it runs relatively frequently, especially turn based.

I will also never play anything other than 2p, because the way the ranking is set up multiplayer is elo suicide.

Would be nice to see something done about this. One cool feature I've seen on other sites is ELO decay. For example if you don't play for x days your ELO drops by y points. This has been suggested like a gazillion times. It wouldn't surprise me if on this very thread. I personally dislike sites tha...