Board Game Arena

If memory serves, 4p was used as the setup for the first Arena season because 4p was voted in boardgamegeek as the best player count for 7W. Now for the 7W 2nd ed, 5p is voted as the 'best player count to play the game in boardgamegeek. Shouldn't Arena then default to 5p for Arena? 3p and 4p players...

I manually collated them, from BGA game results, from 2017-2020. Back then, I'd look at the top ELO players (and decent rated players who consistently played 7p), and check their history for 7p games and record the results -win-or lose and what wonder was played. I don't interpret the lower win rate...

Data for 3,431 7-player games (7p games played by top players, from August 2020 and older): --Win%-- % 1st+2nd place-- % 6th+7th place Hb-- 45 64 6 Rb-- 29 48 9 Eb-- 27 48 12 Gb-- 27 42 10 Ab-- 25 45 14 Ob-- 25 42 16 Bb-- 20 35 16 Ha-- 23 38 18 Ra-- 27 38 19 Ea-- 17 40 15 Ga-- 31 51 11 Aa-- 25 39 14...

I've noticed full tables don't autostart. At least with Sushi Go and 7 Wonders. Is there a time delay before auto starting or auto-start no longer works? Players have been leaving because full tables don't start

Many small improvements today (May 8th 2020). Spectator chat We decided to forbid spectators to chat during the games. We know that in specific situations, it may be useful. But there are more situations where this is causing problems than the opposite. And in real life, you would not want to let a...

I like the auto-start improvement. I play only 7-player 7 Wonders, so I wait for tables that has seats up to 7 players, not joining early because the game might be started with fewer than 7 players. But when it gets full with 7 players, sometimes, the players end up waiting and if the wait is long b...

I like prohibiting spectator chat. Those chats are distracting, especially from a spectator whose not even part of the game. When someone types something, there is a popping sound and I tend to look at it, to see if it's important, and momentarily breaks my concentration. So, if it's just someone sa...

For Sale is a game where players are predictably irrational Any updates/revisions on your strategic analysis for the game, now that the game is more than 6 months old in BGA and where players are now more experienced, and as a consequence, more 'rational'? Is your strategy still as effective as bef...

Great job!

Why not make each season's end coincide with the year's end, in December? That way, each season's winner is also that year's winner.

What information? ... based on all the cards you passed + all the cards players have on the table vs. the whole deck, You've answered your question: all the cards you've passed+all the card on the table. For a 3-player game, you only need to keep track of your opening hand and the 2nd hand cards to...