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You can choose not to join games where skipping is disabled. Games that were abandoned due to maximum time have always worked this way. That's not to say that couldn't be changed, but that part of things is not new, and changing it would likely be more than minimal work (also would likely annoy ano...

I currently have the situation where one player in a 15 day 4p tournament game has gone MIA for 4 days, we are at 5% progression. Another player has slightly more time than me. If I understand correctly, if the overtime player never reconnects before the 15 days limit, then I'll get 2nd place by vir...

BlanketAddict has a spreadsheet that tracks all fastest games. Until recently there were 2 (or 3?) 21 turn games which was the record. There has been a 20 turn game in MW recently albeit against a very weak opponent that apparently helped a bit (didn't watch the replay myself): https://boardgamearen...

2 player is just much more interesting strategically: it's less chaotic, you have more control over the pace of the game and the cards in the display, there's no kingmaking, and you don't fall asleep at the keyboard waiting for your opponents to play.

From what I gather, time control currently works like this. You have a time bonus per turn depending on the speed setting: - On fast you get +1 min per turn - On normal you get +2 min per turn - On slow you get +3 min per turn And no matter the setting, you also get a time bank of 2 min, and the max...

A simple computation could allow a conclusion to be drawn, but it will not have a level of confidence that can prove or disprove the aforementioned claim. Examining the data point of a card being played does not allow one to distinguish between the player winning from playing the card or if the pla...

A simple computation could allow a conclusion to be drawn, but it will not have a level of confidence that can prove or disprove the aforementioned claim. Examining the data point of a card being played does not allow one to distinguish between the player winning from playing the card or if the pla...

If that data point or API was available, it would only be able to affirm the hyperbolic claims (i.e. "take it or lose it") are false. For example, it can be disproved by finding one game where player X played card Y, and player X lost. The data point would not be able to prove or disprove...

boardgamesmue wrote: ↑02 July 2024, 16:36 Is there an API available that we can use to query the game statistics to either prove or disproof the claim?

I want this too but I don't think we'll ever get it. Really curious about the specific winrates of some cards like side entrance or explorer.

Eagles are only broken in games where both players dance around 99 points waiting for the opponent to cross. I loved to do this when I was a beginner too but if you start playing for tempo and try to cross fast you will realize they are a bit overrated.