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Is it possible for the game to never end? In order for the game to end, the Moonlight Board has to be filled up to the Full Moon scoring stage. But this means that if players purposefully avoid taking actions that cause the Moonlight Board to be filled then the game never actually ends. I think it's...

The way I understand the rules, if a player is dealt a creeper at the start of the game, the creeper goes in front of that player, and they draw a replacement card, the same as if that player had drawn the creeper on any other turn. If those are the rules, then BGA has implemented them correctly. It...

Romain672 wrote: ↑30 January 2021, 15:39

BobTheTurtle wrote: ↑30 January 2021, 10:05

Please create some space between your ideas. It would be way better to read

Sorry about that. I tried to improve it. Is it easier to read now?

The only issue with the number of players plus one setup rule is that in the event that both players chose the same setup not to play, then there’s no good way to decide which of the two leftover setups to use. Flipping a coin to decide doesn’t feel right to me. If both players choose the same set-...

I thought it might be helpful to add in some numbers, so here we go: First, how many possible different starting positions are there? We can determine this using permutations. There are 37 tiles total, 2 red of each number 2-9, 2 blue of each number 2-9, 1 red 1 and 1 red 10, 1 blue 1 and 1 blue 10,...

Yes, in your example, blue probably has a decent advantage, larger than with almost any map set-up. However, even this position I wouldn't call completely winning for blue. The game would have an interesting playout, with some fighting over the border at first, followed by a very interesting phase o...

This is an interesting topic. From my experience, the random map set-up puts very little luck into the game, and even then only if both players are at a very high level. This is because you can easily divide the map with your borders, so much so that in a few turns the game changes entirely. This ma...

You cannot build the second wonder stage because you are missing one wood and neither of your neighbors have wood. The wonder needs two wood and you only have access to one wood. You are only allowed to buy resources from your neighbors, so if neither of your neighbors have a resource then you canno...

Did anyone else notice that the Top 5 Arena achievements for Season 1 are doubled in XP compared to what they should be? I noticed when my Season 1 Arena Top 5 achievement in the game For Sale gave me 12,000 XP even though in Season 0 it was worth 6,000 and the other For Sale Season 1 achievements w...

I think that the purpose of putting the 300+ ELO minimum on the Top ELO Achievements was to make it so that the awards would not go to all of the players who played a game just after it was created, but it does nothing to prevent the achievements from going to players who got lucky in their first 10...