Board Game Arena

You don’t even have to revamp the ELO—just leave that, but completely disconnect it from matchmaking. Just match people based on their win percentage. No one cares about ELO, but they’re *forced* to care, because playing with inexperienced players is *miserable*. They don’t know what to pass, how t...

Boardgame's arena ELO implementation is fine. There are alternate ranking systems, like true skill, but changing the ranking system would do nothing to solve the issue many people perceive as "an ELO issue for Hearts". The real issue is that there are two versions of Hearts. - Traditional ...

Guys, the demo decks you are using in this BGA version are available for free in the official website of Altered. Quite true. Hence the surprise about closing the digital version in BGA. Why are they fine with people playing the physical starter decks for free as print an play but not so in this di...

So. After February 5th. It will no longer be possible to play this game here on BGA?

I think there is no confirmation for: - Selecting which kind of disk (food/rock) to use when there is a choice. - Selecting which technology is researched among the two offered. Them, like choosing production, are quite simple. I think confirmation is well done. Having to confirm even such simple ac...

If I recall correctly, the game allows trying to perform illegal actions.
And when done it shows an error about the action not being allowed and then you have to do something else.

Give it a try. If it acts as I described then it is not an error.

Nobody should be penalized or have fingers pointed for playing under the site and table rules. Rules which include expelling a player for being more than 20 seconds out of time in real-time tables or whatever it is in turn-based. There are several reasons for doing so but none are actually needed. T...

Very rarely is winning unattainable, just unprobable Indeed, euro game designers generally try to keep all players engaged in the game as much as possible. I'll discuss probabilities at a later time. But for the case of unattainable winning, consider this scenario. Player P has 5 points Player X ha...

pond26535 wrote: ↑28 June 2021, 00:30 2nd place is the first loser

That is totally correct.
And an acknowledgment of difference between 2nd and later places. Later places are not the first loser.
Since they are different, it is no wonder that some people prefer 1st loser over 2nd loser when winning is unattainable.

Let's not overcomplicate things. "gg" means "Good game". Just that.
Nothing wrong saying "gg" if you honestly had or are having a good game.