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For Catan, the ELO system should treat everybody who is not the winner as equal losers. A game of Catan where there is no concept of 2nd is a more fun and interesting game because it means the players who are behind are mutually incentivized to team up against the leader.

Just went through (10) attempted game starts where people just decline to start? Why even queue if you just refuse to play? Am I missing something here? Edit; miscounted Your reputation is 50. That is very low, and probably an indicator to most players that they will have a bad time playing with yo...

No more Elo ratings for Hardback. Sad times. When the game had competitive mode enabled there were problems with cheating, however, the decision to remove it from arena over a year ago successfully got rid of the cheats and I had been enjoying the game much more ever since, having general fun playin...

I think pairing wetland and desert was a mistake when designing the game. The player gets a choice between the two worst capital options

I love Catan, and BGA has done a great job implementing it. However my biggest peeve is with the clock, and how an accumulation of opponent trade offers runs down the clock, with the only suggested solution being to turn off trade alerts. I want to consider every trade thank you very much. Why shoul...

Is the unique words mentioned anywhere in the physical copy of the game? No it is not. It was added by suggestion of BGA players. It would add some challenge to romance-heavy decks. The option is off by default. I think it should be removed. BGA has a policy of not allowing house rules. I also pers...

Looks like this game: https://boardgamearena.com/gamereview?table=369469377 You enabled the unique words option when you created this take so you can't reuse quail multiple times during the game. It was accepted the first time, but not subsequent times. You can disable unique words (by default it i...

I discussed this with the designer and have slightly modified the rules as you suggested. The oldest card in the offer row will only be discarded if the offer row remains unchanged during your turn. In other words, the oldest offer card is discarded when you do not 1) flush the offer row, and 2) do...

In the 2nd edition of the game, the flushing rules got updated. Now if a player has not purchased a card on this turn, the oldest offer row card gets discarded and a new one added at the end of that players turn. I've had plenty of game which have suffered from a stalemate / slow phase due to offer ...

When my opponent looks up a word using the new tool during a game can I see it in the logs? The reason I ask is that one scenario I often come across with players is that they suddenly whip out an incredible and improbable long compound word first time (with no invalid guesses). When this happens it...