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I am sure you have seen the dice reroll the exact same multiple times. As I said: I have, and I should. Look up a random number table in the back of a math textbook -- if the numbers are random and independent then you should see runs of the same number repeating multiple times. Far more often than...

Yes, around 1/6 of the time rerolling one die gives the same number. This is clearly NOT RANDOM! :D What about when you reroll a 3/4 and get 3/4 then reroll that 3/4 and get 3/4? then next time you reroll 5/6 and get 5/6? I guess that is random. Clearly with the multitudes of times you have played ...

It's terrible. I'm getting karma/ELO hits while the matchmaking page tells me it's still searching for 3 more players. No notification, no way to know it's waiting on me. I was staring at the screen ready and waiting for 10 minutes, and got nothing until I'd apparently already been booted.

I personally am opposed to removing cards, period. The base game is very carefully balanced by offsetting the different odds of rolling each number with appropriately scaled rewards. By removing one of the best cards for the 12 sector you're not just eliminating that card -- you're drastically de-va...

It's a matter of personal preference with various trade-offs. 4p was actually the norm for Space Base in Arena for a long time, and 3p was a more recent change of pace option. It's definitely faster at 3p but also seems more randomly swingy. In a 4p game there are more dice rolls so the probabilitie...

https://www.alderac.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Space-Base-Rules-JUNE2018-web-small.pdf Page 27 of this rulebook explicitly states, "Note, this ability cannot be used to charge itself." See also the FAQ: https://www.alderac.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Spacebase-QandA-May2018_v2.pdf &...

Not rolling a 7 in 78 throws is slightly less than 1 chance in 1.5 millions but this is NOT what happened. But as someone already said, the stats are very misleading. There aren't 78 throws in that game, there are 45 turns (15 rounds of 3 players) and therefore 45 throws (unless there are some forc...

^ This, but with the minor correction that you can choose to expend the cube immediately instead of waiting for a later turn. So basically 3 gold, but with the flexibility to decide when to take it so it's not wasted if you can already afford the card you're really eyeing.

Yes that's a powerful combo but it requires multiple very expensive cards to pull it off. And it's pretty boom or bust to try and set that combo up, since you have to spend all that money on a card for the least-rolled slot, that generates no VPs, no gold, and no income. The player who buys "Yo...

Right, from what I can tell it only decides that an option is "better" if the units are exactly the same -- e.g., more gold versus less gold, or more points versus fewer points. I've noticed it will not even make the choice for you if that choice is between "1 gold + place a cube on a...