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225 final score on Avenia https://boardgamearena.com/table?table=647322254 I think I misplayed that last turn thinking I was going to need to use the 3-straight-water in the SE to get the tower+water space, so ended up getting a couple of 9 point trade routes instead of 12 points (since I should hav...

You misunderstood me. I was not asserting that there's one generally applicable way to do it, I was specifically looking for all of the _specific_ considerations that go into your decision making on this. In other words, all of the examples you gave when attempting to show me that there's no genera...

If you're playing a game with both hermits and merchants, which do you tend to prioritize in the first half of the game if you have some relocator tiles available (ship, paddock, barn)? How do you decide which to prioritize in different situations, and why? That's a hard question to answer, especia...

So to sum up where we stand: BGA admins changed the site without any advance consultation. We now have a 20+ page thread of many frequent site users from all different games saying these changes made the site less usable and less enjoyable. Other than one account who has posted about 50 times on th...

When the season ends and new one begins, you start over, right? No, you don't start over lol. Maybe it should, then. So everyone has equal chance to get to the top within a limited set of time. Rather than someone who has already hit the top, playing as few times as possible to keep being in the to...

Your incentive to play is to... have fun . That's all there is. Whether your elo rises or decreases is meaningless. You are supposed to keep playing in order for elo to actually display your skill level compared to other active players. Elo is not supposed to become stagnant when you don't play. El...

Your original claim is pointless. Other players are playing with the same constraints as well. So overall, it will even out and the rankings are still comparable. Elo is not a score that is supposed to increase indefinitely. It is a very rough approximation of your skill. Just play the games and le...

What the people running the site need to realize is that damage is being done constantly as this ridiculousness goes on. The player base in all games is leaking ELO due to your power levelling 'fix'. Please undo it! There is no shame in correcting a mistake, but you should really act fast. Switch t...

Do you think that if someone has not played for 1 year, he would be exactly as strong player as he is now? 10% decay is not that much, really. 100 elo is not a big difference. Except the decay is meaningless to do what it says it's attempting to do. Let's take a real example of a game where someone...

The power leveling change based on the results already is just absurd, everyone's Elo will be down 100s of points because of it. It basically means you never want to play a player twice. From the sounds of it there is no reset to a win streak by time or number of other players played...you just gai...