Board Game Arena

The reason they make you wait until 50% to concede is because otherwise, some people would multi-account and milk it for easy elo. In some games, 50% is calculated wrong. For example, in Splendor, the "% complete" is "current leader score divided by 15", which is misleading becau...

They could get a contract that allows them to playtest rule variants, if they thought it was important.

BGA has a policy that they won't implement rule variants that aren't blessed by the publisher. That is a stupid rule.

BGA won't remove Blackout card unless the publisher lists a rule variant that says "If you don't like the blackout card, remove it from the deck."

BGA just doesn't have the resources for bugfixes and support. There's a display issue on Mobile that was introduced a few months ago that still hasn't been fixed. I would like to see an option to ban Blackout card, which should be quick to implement, but they haven't done it.

The game was probably coded by a volunteer, and they don't have the time and energy to address bug reports. BGA is really bad at fixing bugs. As a paying premium member, I have an expectation that all bug reports I file or vote for be taken seriously. "The Gang" is a relatively popular gam...

Use a favorites list, and take the ones you don't want to play in Arena off the list. I also believe it sorts by "most recently played" first?

Yes, I confirmed you can lose elo in "The Gang". I played only 1 game and lost and my elo chart went down. It takes forever to get over 100 elo, and your elo won't go down until you reach 100, which is a rule that applies to all BGA games. It also looks like there's a defect in the elo for...

For some games, the license agreement falls apart before the game is released, and they have to pull the game. They don't want people publicizing games that may never be available.

It's probably half for coop game because the algorithm is scoring it as a tie (half win). I think you also get a half win for regular games if it's a tie. They need a coded exception for coop games to just display the flat winrate.

I already knew about that. It's possible to get a winrate over 100% for multiplayer games if you win more than double your share of games, because winrate is adjusted by player count. They have to do that to make winrate meaningful for games with a variable number of players. For this game, there sh...