DrRockenheimer wrote: ↑28 May 2023, 10:04
As a newcomer to all this... the underlying problem is the lack of a casual mode for play across all of BGA. Because of the ratings, regular play mode is a magnet for arguments between casual and competitive players, which casual players cannot escape even in this cooperative game! And competitive players cannot escape to arena or tournaments when those modes do not exist.
I could be wrong, but I don't think you could do a casual mode for a 24h/24 7d/7 website.
If you take some videos games as example, usually the 'best' ones got many players at the start, which usually is centred around regular play. And then after a while they just becaame entierely competitive or they don't have player anymore.
One exception to that is if you create an elo and make players plays against others players of the same elo. But that's only possible on highly popular game where you got enough players to do that.
Or to creates bots.
But so you don't have enough players to create a casual mode I think. If you would do that and players were respecting it, it would be really hard to start a game.
Even if the crew is pretty popular, I don't think it's enough popular for that.
One way would be to take those players and make them play at the same time. To do that, the group look best. But then you got another problem: those kind of players are (in my opinion again) more busy and harder to reach, so it can be pretty hard to do, but it can work, forum + proposing that group at the end of your game (+profil if you got 50+ friends) + add a post to all group of the crew (after demanding autorisation to the admin of the group) can work.