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I think the first player has a decent advantage in 2p, probably about 4-5 points on average with or without objectives. There are some cases when starting with a smaller piece forces the hand on the first turn (e.g. if there is a panda objective, it is often not beneficial to take an N piece as fir...

I feel like the game will be even more balanced if we have an option for a rule that says "if there is a tie, then the player who starts last wins." Sadly, I guess this game is not being developed anymore. I mean, in other bug reports there is even a crucial bug (a position on outer bounda...

The calculation is correct when one takes into account the system rounds up. The elo points are not being rounded up. They are rounded only for display purposes and they are rounded to the nearest whole number, not rounded up. The system is using decimal numbers for calculation purposes. Example: h...

Hello, I'd love to share a link http://forum.boardgamearena.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3579 especially admistrator sourisdudesert's post, explaining some ideas and history. So the problem raised by SonGoku there was that sometimes people keep evolving their strategy in a game, so that a 2000 ELO a ...

I'd love to say I think SonGoku point out a pretty important issue, and hope some improvement toward this direction will appear in the future. - A proposal towards SonGoku's idea: I think it's probably comparably easier, for programming and for experiment purpose, to add an "inactivity penalty&...