The ELO system kills my desire to play

[staxmayor]

I don't know if anyone else is like this but just seeing my ELO level get cratered after a loss, especially when the games has any luck. It kills my enjoyment of games here. I wish there was the ability to turn it off entirely and just not see ELO ever, to me referencing ELO is a ranked gameplay thing, I don't care about raising it, and I hate seeing it tallied after each game.

Knowing someone's number of games played in any specific game is enough to know If I want to play against them. I am seriously thinking about losing on purpose in my favorite games for 20+ games straight to crater it for a period of time, so I can just enjoy these games again.

[Jellby]

Play in friendly mode.

[GTSchemer]

Play in friendly mode.

The obvious problem with this is that anyone in friendly mode can A) refuse to ever finish the game, and B) quit at any moment.

Both are allowed since there is no general restriction on friendly mode games.

It would be nice if there were an option to hide elo for people who do not wish to see it. It would probably be a simple CSS change, and in fact might be doable with BGA's custom CSS feature.

[staxmayor]

If that's the price I have to pay to enjoy a game that's fine. Also I just checked and the game mode settings for every game are defaulted to: NEVER want to play friendly mode.... So that doesn't seem to be a good solution.

Custom CSS would be awesome!

Play in friendly mode.

The obvious problem with this is that anyone in friendly mode can A) refuse to ever finish the game, and B) quit at any moment.

Both are allowed since there is no general restriction on friendly mode games.

It would be nice if there were an option to hide elo for people who do not wish to see it. It would probably be a simple CSS change, and in fact might be doable with BGA's custom CSS feature.

[Grimwold]

Thanks * , I don't play to make that number moves. I play to have fun. I don't see the point, what difference does it make if a Elo is 101 or 899 ?


* Note to moderator : Since we aren't supposed to name other players I took on myself to censor the divinity's name I wanted to write. I have no proof It really exists, but if it does, I have no proof It isn't on BGA.

[RicardoRix]

works for inside the game page:

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.gamerank_value {
    display: none;
}

[GTSchemer]

If that's the price I have to pay to enjoy a game that's fine. Also I just checked and the game mode settings for every game are defaulted to: NEVER want to play friendly mode.... So that doesn't seem to be a good solution.

Custom CSS would be awesome!

You can try going to this page: https://boardgamearena.com/preferences?section=advanced

Then, try this CSS:

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.player_elo_wrap, .rankdetails {
  display: none;
}

Disclaimer: I have not tested it. In particular, using custom CSS means you cannot make bug reports until removing the custom styles again. (you can remove them, make a report, and add them back though)

[Jellby]

Maybe something like this?

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.myelo_value, .gamerank_value {
  visibility: hidden;
}

There is a browser extension that has some options to change the homepage and other things, you could suggest it there too.

[Cile]

Play in friendly mode.

The obvious problem with this is that anyone in friendly mode can A) refuse to ever finish the game, and B) quit at any moment.

Both are allowed since there is no general restriction on friendly mode games.

The only consequence to doing so in a competitive game is loss of ELO (karma is easy to get back) so you'd have this issue in any mode without ELO.

[Perry_Li]

I just turned the lose sound to the win sound in the settings. It makes me feel better.