Board Game Arena

Where do u play online? Promoting (even merely naming) other online board game platforms is prohibited on BGA, even platforms that are not meaningfully a competitor to BGA, like the two large chess platforms out there. Well, the answer anyway is that I play primarily on BGA. I just boycott the Aren...

NO ONE APPRECIATES WHAT CATAN IS. U have been asked for 2 SEASONS to turn off friendly robber for multiple reasons. 1 NO ONE TRADES, 2 people will delay getting to 4+ points for as long as possible, 3- IT ENCOURAGES TEAMING, 4 It punishes people who actually position good & can do things like l...

Man, tell me about it. I've been banging on about this since the game first went live on Arena. We had about 4 weeks of 4-player, which was great, but then a new season started and its been 3-player ever since - never swapping it out for 4 even for one season. Instead, the gurus decided to add frien...

In a dream world, great. But this would be a step too far for the “gurus” who seem to think that 3-player base game with random numbers and friendly robber is the way to go. I have never understood the thinking behind making these settings as bad as possible. It kills the game and makes the whole ar...

It's not about being fair. It's about being fast. Variable numbers set-up is faster on average, because it produces lop-sided games like your one. Gurus are the people who play the most games. They people who played the fastest games. So they pick the settings that make things go faster. Variable N...

its interesting, I use to be a pretty competitive Catan player, but was never interested in playing set numbers. Don't think I have don't it since my first game “Variable” is the traditional spiral setup, not set numbers. “Random” is a chaotic version where it’s allowed to have the same numbers adj...

The so-called gurus have got it wrong every time. I’ve complained about this many times, and I have refused to play in Arena for years. Each new season, they make it worse. I agree that last season was a step forward, but it’s now the worst possible combo again. Apart from the first few weeks the ga...

My issue is that the friendly robber variant rule is incorrectly applied. Friendly robber should apply until the person at 2 VPs starts robbing the person at 3+ VPs. I just played a game with friendly rules enabled and I was robbed - no joke - nine times by both players before either of them reache...

Wow just realised the full extent of the problem. 3 players friendly robber random numbers easy start no idea what easy start even means The current arena setting are honestly ridiculous for any kind of competitive format. Does anyone other than the first player ever win with this setup? Yes, it is...

Aren't the Arena games still 3 players? Yes, this hasn't changed since the game first appeared (apart from a few weeks at the very beginning), which is patently ridiculous and the reason I won't play Arena. Every adjustment since then has made the game even worse - random numbers, friendly robber a...