Board Game Arena

There have been a few discussions site-wide (not just with Hive) about the etiquette of conceding. The general feeling is that there are some people who prefer others concede as soon as possible, so no time is wasted. There are others that prefer that others play out the entire game so that they ca...

All rating decay does is make it most sensible to play all your games in the last week or two of the arena. Instead of building up to a nice ranking in the early weeks then stopping people would do the opposite- don't play at all for the first 80 days of each 90 day season. Also why should points fr...

reikja wrote: ↑24 February 2026, 09:28 Even with a full list of tiles, you would not know if the specific track tile would be in the picture: depending on player count, a bunch of tiles are discarded during set up.

Even so it would still be helpful to see the full set

Yeah I tried looking through their game history when I saw this posted and I can find no documentation after scrolling through the entirety of it that this ever happened. To the best of my knowledge my score of 141 is the highest score to date that I am aware of. I've been ranked #1 overall on mult...

I know that if I build a wonder stage normally in edifice I can chose to pay for a pawn

But this wonder has a pawn symbol for each stage. Does that mean I get a pawn automatically? Or something else? Does it mean I can get two pawns? Do I get two rewards then?

I can't see it explained anywhere

For those of you not familiar with BGA Arena mode: Each season, BGA appoints Game Gurus to oversee the setup of Arena Mode: These frequent players have the opportunity to vote on an existing setup or propose a new one before the end of an Arena season. However, only their votes matter. At the start...

I'd play chess with a low time control

Not on BGA though but a proper chess website

MyCooLand wrote: ↑24 February 2026, 11:36 Is it possible to hide games history from others?

Out of interest why do you want to?

I think you can set up a game, have one of them join, then you leave before the start.

Playing is not just about having fun, you need to respect the historical and artistic importance of the game you are playing (not to mention of course the experience of your opponent, as has been repeated many times). If a team left the pitch in the middle of a world cup final because "we are ...