Board Game Arena

The upshot is that if things go wrong at a noticeable level BGA tries to revert penalties but there appear to be practical limitations. Previous posts suggest that if you contact the admins they are sympathetic to potential problems and may be able to assist you. However, as BGA makes clear ad nause...

Players who don't play arena need to be able to become gurus and influence future arena formats. Otherwise arena can stagnate in a setting that only a minority of users enjoy. Which is why the system does not work the way the OP suggested and should not work that way. It is best that Arena is deter...

One factor might be that there are more games, so the players are spread out between them. Another possibility is that it hasn't happened. That people complaining are those wishing to play games in formats that are not popular. As the games and formats expand it doesn't necessarily spread the playe...

If I win against someone with ELO 200 I should always get the same points otherwise the system doesn't reflect abilities. That is a fundamental misunderstanding of how Elo works (its named after Arpad Elo, its not an abbreviation, so you don't capitalise it). What you are suggesting is completely w...

Yeah, you just quit when you are playing in solo mode and nothing happens. I think, it might screw up the win rate on the stats page of your profile, but since nobody actually cares about that it doesn't really matter.

So, interestingly, I got an email notification that states "we judged that you may have been forced to leave the game due to a BGA server issue; therefore, we have removed it and restored your Karma and the ELO lost due to this penalty." Then this should be a bug report not a forum post. ...

What are the odds that a conspiracy theorist will turn up and complain they rolled really well - zero apparently.

Calling players out by name in the forums has gotten previous posters moderated, you might wish to considering removing your post of your own volition. There is actually a good reason for that. A lot of forum posts that call specific players out for cheating are upon examination making entirely fals...

What can be done about players who take the whole time to have their go and do it only seconds before timing out? I wonder what can be done about players who play good moves against me - people should only be allowed to do what I want. Seriously - a player can use the entire timer if they want, tha...

But both were interface problems, not connection problems. So I'd like to know how to protest a loss of reputation points when it's the game's fault. You can't. Create a bug report, switch to turn based, look at your connection, etc. But if you get penalties for this you just have to suffer the los...