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This point has been brought up an inordinate amount of times, but the admins don't seem to have any intention to act on it. In two players competitive games it is normal to concede when no possibility to win, even in tournament. I've raised a bug report and a few forum posts on this topic but to no ...

The big version is Shogi, so I don't think there would be any problem with licensing, unless you specifically want the cute animals.

To me there should be only win/lose as in chess or draughts. Points differential is a bad tie-breaker in Strands. Somebody's strategy could be connecting two groups. In case of failure the two groups are small. Somebody else could try to grow only one group even if there is no chance. When he loses ...

Patchwork is a great game for competitive play. However some initial random setups offer an "insurmountable" advantage between skilled players (let's say 600+). This is an issue on Arena: losses to strong but not top10 players could decide who wins the season. My suggestion would be an op...

Well I would not call it 'not extremely rare'. I think in my 5k games I've managed to do it 3 times. I think it depends also on playing style. I've done 3/4 times in about 600 games, but I tend to use more "real estate" than "cash". Also a couple of times I did some objectively ...

Just give a komi of a few points.

Filling the board is not extremely rare, but this week is the first time where I won one 1x1 patch but there was no space to place it.

https://boardgamearena.com/table?table=401502862

I think megamau means that the fact that you can only resign at 50% or more is a site bug. That's not a bug, it's a design decision that you may disagree with, but it's intentional. Bugs are unintentional. While technically you are right, there is a threshold where a design decision is so bad that ...

My view is that we could keep the "confirm" but the system should not show you the results of your move until you click confirm.

That is more of a site bug, as resignation should be allowed at any stage (and also in tournaments) in 2 player abstract games.