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Jellby wrote: ↑18 January 2024, 18:01 I think when a game is neutralized because someone left you never get negative (total) elo change. At least that's the theory/intent. If you actually do, you may report it as a bug.

Someone did report it as a bug in December and it was rejected: https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=106259

I've maxed out the conservation points track twice, but both times it just reduced my winning margin rather than changing the overall result.

Searching Ark Nova regles I find a site called Carnet des geekeries which seems to have a French rules explanation in HTML. I don't endorse the site and I haven't checked in detail whether the explanation is complete.

Well you already have kind of a big warning : instead of the usual "Place in rescue station" orange button, you have the "Discard" blue button. Discard means discard, not placing into rescue station. That's only really effective for people who've played this map in this implemen...

It only prevents future effects from affecting you.

If anything player position balance should be looked at more than an opening draft. I still think player 1 is quite advantaged in a 2p game, the 1 appeal doesn't seem nearly enough payoff for the fact P1 gets first dibs at most things AND has the potential to have 1 more round in the game. One way ...

Hmm, in what way is the game currently not consistent with respect to Cartographer? desert, forest, island, jungle, mallee, marsh, moor, mountain, plains, prairie, sandhill, savannah, scrub, sea, wood. Which is the odd one out? These all seem fine to me; they're all terms that refer to a habitat or...

I've just lost Elo on a game where the results were neutralised because someone else was expelled for running out of time. My understanding was that there was a special case to cap Elo changes so that you couldn't actually lose Elo in this case. Was I wrong, or has this changed? (In case I need it l...

I think the question is prompted by the Conservation Project cards, where other players can use the slots that you don't take.

In the real game ... the alternative effects are designed to make the cards still useful in solo play, but the rules do also say "If your group doesn’t like the interactive effects, you can instead use the alternate effects intended for the solo game". Or putting it another way, "pea...