Board Game Arena

But isn't it significantly more time consuming to have to sit through the entire timer to expel an afk player?

We appreciate the developers for listening to the community and fixing arena's matchmaking. Making sure every player is ready before the game starts will save us a lot of headaches. I'm not too happy it took almost half a decade to implement this change, but it's better late than never. I finally be...

I was just playing a game where I got expelled because I had Freeze Time and my turn was super long. I was obviously about to win with a bunch of extra turns, but one of the players expelled me even though I was performing at least an action per second. Here is the link to the game: https://boardgam...

How would BGA know if the person isn't present or just taking their time? There's a pop-up when someone suggests an abandon, and anyone including the player whose turn it is can click 'no' to refuse the abandon. To make this suggestion work, the abandon has to go through, say, 20 seconds after the ...

What is the logic behind making the first move shorter? In many games the first move takes longer than the next ten moves (sometimes combined), as you need to analyze your hand, the field layout (if it's something random each game) and basically plan your whole strategy for the first half of the ga...

You just need to wait for that player to time-out. If they did, you can suggest to abandon and the timed-out-player will automatically accept. Hello Silene, I am aware that this is how it works now. I'm suggesting that the abandon option is available earlier on each player's first move of the game ...

If on the first move of the game a player has not made a move for one minute, please give the remaining players an option to abandon early with no penalty for anyone. Edit: I am suggesting that the option to abandon is available earlier during an afk player's first turn of the game, so the rest of t...

I would say kingmaking is a far greater problem than your suggested elo change. That's fine, some people can have this opinion. Give the rest of us a table configuration for single winner, so if you don't like it you can play the game like you always have without having to make any extra clicks, bu...

What is to stop people from playing recklessly in hearts because there’s no penalty for last-2. Basically attempting to shoot the moon even though it’s a low chance. Or in Catan someone relying their whole game on beating another to a spot first and when that doesn’t happen just give up and offer 3...

*??? Haven’t visited since Covid but that place was horrible. 90% of games outside of strictly ppl I knew were abandoned. A lot of times right after someone didn’t get the settlement placements they wanted. There appeared to be some king making even in the legitimate tournaments. It was bad here at...