Board Game Arena

How do I create a non-arena game now? Is it still possible?

I do not see how to (carefully) create turn-based tables. Are all the features gone? Or I am just unable to find them? Every time I create a turn-based table I carefully decide many things: Who to invite. Game speed. ELO. Number of players. And all the other options. There must be a way, right? Help...

The problem with the turn-based notes isn't that it pops up automatically, it is that it covers info like the scores, which you want to see first, before your notes. The positioning is poor at all times, because I often want to reference the scoring info to write or modify my notes. Solve all the pr...

Why punish everyone?

When a battle happens, then mute those folks. Permanently, perhaps.

Those who abuse the chat service should lose access to it. Nobody else should suffer.

"unfortunately all websites rely on real hardware servers that may have physical issues from time to time"

While true, there is an enormous increase in reliability if you are renting server time, versus running one's own servers. I wonder which approach are you using?

While a person is "inactive" in a game, I favor gradually decaying their displayed ELO towards the mean, dropping them gradually down the leader-board. When (if) they return to playing, discard the displayed-ELO and continue them at their pre-decay ELO. This will eliminate one common tacti...

When I have given a red thumb, I then receive one back. Should it be that way?

Two different games? The 2nd one being "Five Crowns".

I wrote an AI for Gyges which beats all humans, one of an number of AIs I've written going back to 1980. I have no interest in web-programming or user interfaces, but there are many two-player games of the sort I write code for - Othello, Chess, Gyges... any pure skill perfect information game. No c...