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I think this discussion belongs here: https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=41776 It died, but your complaint shows it's still relevant. The major concerns regarding ELO: - Black Powder doesn't affect ELO at all, even though it makes the game more challenging. - Number of players affects ...

The game presents a wide array of possible outcomes. Even if highly-skilled players will tend to cluster their games at certain outcomes (perfect, perfect-1, perfect-2, and 0, perhaps) that should be respected. It is more difficult to score 29 than 28, and more difficult to score 26 than 25. The ta...

Mistakes corrected Thank you for pointing out my copy-paste mistake (I copied because it was in "code", and forgot to adjust scores). I've edited the tables to reflect the correct numbers. Difficult variant The difficulty with only five multicolour cards, is the lack of clue-tokens, and t...

Intro Which variant is more difficult? Avalanche of colours? Tricky? Or basic five colour variant with blackpowder? All these options have 6 colours, but play differently? And should their difference in difficulty be reflected in ELO? Currently ELO is a function of variant and number of players. It...

I hear what you're saying, and I agree with most of it. You put in so many words I've noticed that most players "play however they find it the most fun", and will refuse to play the convention that the table is set to. Or just refuse to configure the table properly. I play 2-player games m...

First a bit of history as I remember it: The classic conventions were based on the most "polarizing" discussions in 2014 - 2016: a) Chaining or no chaining? b) Where lies the focus of a clue? c) How to deal with double discards? When new players actually started to worry about a convention...

Just get a sample of 10, in your next game, where deck is about half full, that should be enough to tell if something is wrong or not HanabiGrandMaster. My most recent games with flamboyants: ~ https://boardgamearena.com/gamereview?table=572044125 - gets put on top ( 0 cards in deck ) ~ https://boa...

I've noticed that, when shuffling a card (recovered by flamboyant) back into the deck, it gets put on top a disproportionate amount of times. It appears the shuffle function is broken.

Please upvote the bug report here: https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=141063

Romain672 wrote: ↑29 December 2023, 17:31 Btw, in Hanabi, it's nowhere close to >99%: https://github.com/fpvandoorn/hanabi#optimized-winrates . It's around 98%.

That's pre-flamboyants. Flambotyants are broken strong, and make the >99% possible.

Romain672 wrote: ↑29 December 2023, 17:31 But it seem that 80/95% is a good number.

Thanks for the feedback.

In Team vs the Game situations, I would prefer a >99% win rate for the team. I don't like losing a game, just because we got unlucky. What is the point in playing if your decisions don't matter and make the difference. Sure that means some games were probably unwinnable, but a large number of the w...