Board Game Arena

Chipping in my two cents... I have no idea about the economics behind this site. Sure, I understand the income is from premium subscriptions, and costs are mainly salaries, game licenses and server/hosting costs, but I have no idea about the amounts. Maybe some of the numbers are out there. Haven't ...

Anyway, how "strict" is the matchmaker in order to prevent skipping. Assume we have a tournament with 25 players on 4 max tables, but allowing 3 as min. Would it start 6 4-player games and skip 1, or 3 4-player games and 3 3-player ones, skipping none? I would assume the latter? Here is a...

Try to avoid skipping players. If at all possible, make the players that would be skipped play a game with less players. The suggestions and reasoning from teff71 above is great. This makes the tournament fairer and more fun for everyone. You join to play, not to be skipped and gain free points. Hi...

I think tournaments is a very good addition to the site. Big thumbs up for everyone involved. A few ideas on improvements (since I almost exclusively play turn based, these are meant for turn based tournaments): Try to avoid skipping players. If at all possible, make the players that would be skippe...

I think this idea is very interesting and well worth a try. There are a few problems I see though: If you play turn based, 3 months is really short. You need to play a very high number of games at the same time to get a chance to climb enough, and timing the end of these will be an important "s...

Thanks a lot for this. Btw, what does "handbook" variant mean? You might want to rename that to make it more obvious.

[*] We've limited the number of turn based games you can join according to your turn based experience on BGA : the more you played turn based games in the past, the highest is this limit. This prevent brand new BGA players to join dozen of tables and then leave the website. [*] We've limited the nu...

First of all, the main problem here is that awarding "trophies" to the highest rated players is not necessarily the same as giving them to the best players. If we look at real world sports and games there are a few using ELO-based systems, and I don't think any of them hands out awards to ...