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If you really wanted to improve tournaments maybe you should take a look at your bugs & suggestions page … Tournament admins should be allowed to remove players before the tournament starts Allow Tournament Administrators the Ability to Remove Players Mid-Tournament Configurable Tie Breaker for ...

… and it’s still annoying af. Just blocked a good player because I can’t gain anything by winning against them anymore. (I noticed this after the 7th consecutive win when both got 0 Elo points …)
Get your act together BGA and finally fix this abomination.

Who's with me? Quite likely only a select few folks who don’t play competitively. I get that this tiebreaker in 3+ player games feels arbitrary, especially if it pertains to players with the same number of moves. But that’s quite surely not the lion’s share of Carcassonne games played on BGA. That ...

There’s nothing "going on with the randomness". Your memory though played a few tricks on you. According to the replay log of your only game with 5 players 12 was rolled 3 times, twice by you. So just 2 of 5 players rolled at least one 12. The total number of 12s wasn’t even near 6 and the...

Anyone else feel the game needs some mechanic to take away that imbalance? Not every game has to be balanced, especially not if it’s 25+ years old and still getting played. Mind you, Schotten Totten is definitely not imbalanced, it just can be a bit volatile occasionally. Yes, it’s sometimes annoyi...

To me the classic mode is essential Knizia. Dead simple rules, but quite a lot of tricky, sometimes unpleasant choices with enough randomness and volatility to still keep it interesting for many games. I opted against using tactic cards back then and don’t regret that choice one bit. I neither need ...

There were noticable problems around 20:30 and 22:30 (UTC+2) yesterday: https://www.yzemaze.de/bgg/BGA-server-problems-20241015.png It’s a shame BGA isn’t more transparent about these problems given they claim that this exactly would be their philosophy. From the server status page : Having a gaming...

Definitely not, but posting here on a daily or weekly basis obviously doesn’t change anything (cf. h_illes’ posts …), so why should we? Admins know they messed up royally, they either don’t care or don’t have the guts to admit it. So be it …

FYI: As nothing had happened since January I asked for source code access two weeks ago. It was denied yesterday, because they started an internal project to improve Carcassonne. No timeline given though, so no clue when we should expect changes to materialize. Let’s hope it’ll be rather soon.

mosed1 wrote: ↑24 May 2024, 08:55 For me a much better solution would be to hide strong players which don't play for a long time in the ranking list.

BGA does this already. (Check out Color Pop’s Elo ranking and my rating e. g.) I think the cut-off is 3 months of inactivity.