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Unrelated, but I just played a game and the 25-points endgame warning did not trigger. Game ended correctly though.

KuWizard wrote: ↑16 February 2026, 17:36 Please try now and confirm it works. This was mistakenly changed for full premium recently. It should be returned to the old scheme now

Confirmed, base set tables are again free! Thank you for your help!

I'll ask BGA why this happened, maybe it's a bug from their side. From my perspective (I'm a premium account holder) there's a "star" on New Era showing it as premium and no star on the base game. But I will double check, thanks for raising this topic By the way, thank you for the excelle...

Also as a premium user: https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=fiftyfirststate is tagged as premium, while https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=thecrew (where IIRC some missions are premium and some are not) is not. Thank you for the input. I've tested here opening a Crew campaign table and...

That's not a BGA's decision but the publisher's. Always, in any game. Also, the base set is still not premium, nothing have changed since the release as far as I can see Thanks for the information, I wasn't aware the decision came from the publisher. Until very recently I could open 51st base set t...

The recent decision to make 51st State a fully premium game will be the nail in the coffin of this great game on BGA. The game has only 60 players above global 200 ELO and, from what I've seen in the last few months, only a handful of those are regular players. BGA should revert the decision and lim...

Thank you, I wasn't aware of that penalty.

I played a couple of 51st State games today in Normal mode and zero ELO points were awarded in the end to both players, although I won both. I reported the bug but someone who I believe is the dev answered: "ELO is a BGA function, Devs have no access to ELO, cannot do anything here." Is th...

Yes! +1

Arena Race for the Galaxy should not include all expansions. A minority of players are acquainted with the cards and mechanics up to Brink of War, and that limits the play field. Arena should include at most The Gathering Storm (1st expansion), which balances the base set and does not include takeov...