Board Game Arena

Matchmaking is broken and this is a mitigation. The Arena system thinks a 200 ELO player with 30% win rates (in a 1vs1 game) is an "Elite" player. The outcome cannot be a surprise to anyone, any half good player will wipe out this "Elite" player in a totally pointless game. Twen...

I disagree. Friendly games should be used only when you need them in an informal /teaching setting / distinctly imbalanced pool of player abilities. It's why it used to be called teaching mode. Why strip people of timers and the ability to kick non responsive players? The new ELO system is not good...

Matchmaking is broken and this is a mitigation. The Arena system thinks a 200 ELO player with 30% win rates (in a 1vs1 game) is an "Elite" player. The outcome cannot be a surprise to anyone, any half good player will wipe out this "Elite" player in a totally pointless game. Twen...

→ Red Thumbs for competitive play One last thing that is going to be changed in a few weeks will be the impact of the Red Thumbs. You can currently give a Red Thumb to any player with which you had a bad game experience. This prevents you from competing against them in ranked games or the Arena, bu...

Old issue, really really really needs fixing.

Funny thing is that standard players get better opponents than premium players.
Being premium correlates with being better player, and standard players are only paired against premium players. Not a good incentive there

Jellby wrote: ↑14 January 2023, 09:46 While you're at it, add also filters by language, sex, age, avatar main color, online status, premium status, and number of friends.

Maybe lefty/righty filter too?

Wow! Great! Thank you! 👏 It only works for Arena rankings, right? You can also get the All-time ranking, it is a bit tricky: 1. Open any ended game of the game you are interested in. 2. View game replay, choose any player. 3. Scroll down until you see the "How to Play | Competition | Replay lo...

(...) Also it would be great if we could filter the ELO/Arena rankings by country for each game, as well the XP Hall of Fame. Thanks! :D I created a script for doing that, see here: https://github.com/DavidEGx/bga-arena-scoreboard Wow! Great! Thank you! 👏 It only works for Arena rankings, right? Yo...

caiopsoares wrote: ↑24 December 2022, 05:31 (...)
Also it would be great if we could filter the ELO/Arena rankings by country for each game, as well the XP Hall of Fame.

Thanks!

I created a script for doing that, see here: https://github.com/DavidEGx/bga-arena-scoreboard

(...) And another aspect. Stopping play in Arena after a lucky streak is just the correct competitive idea for heavily luck-based games. Even a (slight) point decay will not change this tactics at all. In a strategic game the best players have a strong incentive to play on, even if they reach a top...