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by conrad503
19 June 2026, 19:12
Forum: The Builders: Middle Ages
Topic: The 1st player advantage in this game..
Replies: 17
Views: 11716

Re: The 1st player advantage in this game..

As you get more experience playing the game, luck becomes less a factor. And there's no particular advantage to going first, regardless of whether there are masters available. I've won many games without recruiting a single master. Antiquity takes an elegantly simple game of probability estimation a...
by conrad503
22 October 2025, 01:10
Forum: Official announcements [en]
Topic: Imperial Settlers: Empire State of Mind
Replies: 39
Views: 3748

Re: Imperial Settlers: Empire State of Mind

While I appreciate the creativity and strategy that go into many board games, I find myself troubled by the tone and framing of this one. The language of “discovering new lands,” “expanding empire,” and “crushing everyone” evokes the history—and ongoing reality—of settler colonialism and violence a...
by conrad503
22 October 2025, 00:56
Forum: Official announcements [en]
Topic: Imperial Settlers: Empire State of Mind
Replies: 39
Views: 3748

Re: Imperial Settlers: Empire State of Mind

While I appreciate the creativity and strategy that go into many board games, I find myself troubled by the tone and framing of this one. The language of “discovering new lands,” “expanding empire,” and “crushing everyone” evokes the history—and ongoing reality—of settler colonialism and violence a...
by conrad503
14 February 2025, 23:43
Forum: El Grande
Topic: This game really needs undo option
Replies: 13
Views: 4201

Re: This game really needs undo option

Yes, implement an undo PLEASE. The language on some of the cards is fairly difficult to understand, losses in translation, until you play the game a fair bit. And some cards look very similar at first glance, but do very different things. This all can add up to a very frustrating experience for new ...
by conrad503
12 September 2021, 18:30
Forum: Discussions
Topic: Move selection of "Realtime" or "Turn Based" to game creation options menu
Replies: 1
Views: 486

Move selection of "Realtime" or "Turn Based" to game creation options menu

Although I'm a Premium member, and have been playing on BGA for nearly 5 years, I rarely initiate new games. The interface has changed so many times, I now find it cumbersome, confusing and frustrating. I have friends from [another boardgame platform*] that refuse to play on BGA for the same reasons...
by conrad503
09 June 2021, 00:48
Forum: Dungeon Petz
Topic: Not seeing round operations order and card distribution info?
Replies: 1
Views: 1586

Not seeing round operations order and card distribution info?

Greetings, Each player's Burrow Board in the physical game contains information about the order of operations during the round, and perhaps more importantly, the distribution of various card types in each colored stack. I could be missing a tooltip link somewhere, but I'm not finding this informatio...
by conrad503
07 May 2021, 06:38
Forum: Discussions
Topic: Why does the newbie always seem to get first turn, when you're trying to teach a new game?
Replies: 1
Views: 610

Why does the newbie always seem to get first turn, when you're trying to teach a new game?

I seems like it never fails, we invite a new player to learn a game, and they get selected to go first. So, now we get to try to coach them verbally on how to take an action or move, without even being able to demonstrate by example. It makes teaching so much more difficult. Sometimes the new player...
by conrad503
09 February 2021, 04:50
Forum: Official announcements [en]
Topic: 1871 : City of the Big Shoulders - Chicago is burning...
Replies: 18
Views: 6462

Re: 1871 : City of the Big Shoulders - Chicago is burning...

Please, for the love of god, add a means by which players can *completely* pass during the stock purchase phase. Something like "check here, if you don't want to be asked whether you want to sell or purchase stock twice a day for the next two weeks." I honestly have a game that's in its se...
by conrad503
17 September 2019, 05:53
Forum: BGA release notes
Topic: A new lobby for BGA
Replies: 228
Views: 67990

Re: A new lobby for BGA

Horrible, just horrible. Fire the guy that designed the updated UI.

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