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by starman72
03 August 2023, 03:33
Forum: Qawale
Topic: Prone to ties?
Replies: 3
Views: 9808

Re: Prone to ties?

I was taken by surprise when I first tied. I hadn't read the rules carefully and just assumed that when your stck was gone, you would play from stacks of your color on the board, continuing to try to get 4 in a row. If tihere are no stacks with your color on to, you lose. But perhaps that can lead t...
by starman72
09 February 2023, 07:14
Forum: Ticket to Ride
Topic: how to advance near the top in arena mode
Replies: 16
Views: 1519

Re: how to advance near the top in arena mode

@ Sysyphus agree, thanks for your input. by Sysyphus » 06 February 2023, 02:50 The main problem is that the Elite division has a pool of players too wide. Most top players cannot even play each other, so we end up playing a contest of who is going to play the most games against players who have no c...
by starman72
06 February 2023, 01:36
Forum: Ticket to Ride
Topic: how to advance near the top in arena mode
Replies: 16
Views: 1519

Re: how to advance near the top in arena mode

Looking at the top players, they do win a very high percentage of their games, but even if you win them all (which is nearly impossible, given that there is some luck involved), by the time you get to a rank around 2100, you'd only be gaining a point or two per game. It doesn't look like they play e...
by starman72
06 February 2023, 00:17
Forum: Ticket to Ride
Topic: how to advance near the top in arena mode
Replies: 16
Views: 1519

how to advance near the top in arena mode

I'm at around rank 30 in arena mode, so when I win I typically gain about 3 to 5 points but when I lose it typically costs 20-30 points, even with.the setting of only playing at my level. To break into the top 10, I'd need to gain about 300 points, but even if I have a 10 to 1 winning ratio, I no lo...
by starman72
30 December 2022, 02:21
Forum: Catan
Topic: After 20 times playing, I am done with the BGA version
Replies: 75
Views: 7524

Re: After 20 times playing, I am done with the BGA version

I haven't analyzed the rolls (how do you get the data to do that?) but I do have a sense that 8's and 10's are rolled more often than they should be and 6's are rolled less often than they should be. Hard to tell, but perhaps 7's are tolled not as often as they should be. I've also noted that good p...
by starman72
30 December 2022, 02:15
Forum: Catan
Topic: Losing players leave the game during playing
Replies: 15
Views: 1571

Re: Losing players leave the game during playing

Perhaps there should be a mechanism for resigning in Catan. It can be very boring to have to play out an hour long game from a terrible position that has no hope of winning.

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