Trying to understand what some of the game options do

[Lofski]

• Play with all islands: if I uncheck this, does it remove some islands completely, or does it just randomize a smaller subset from the full set of islands?
• Use mini expansion 2 occupation ban list: What even is mini expansion 2, and why is there no checkbox whether to include it? I guess the answer to the first question and the content of the ban list can be found in BGG, but it would be nice to have it on BGA as well.
• Use mini expansion 2 optional occupation ban list: I mean the previous banlist is already optional, making it an optional occupation ban list, no? This is a bit confusing. Also is this community driven or official?

[Alucard648]

1. That is it, only a number of islands, depending on number of players, chosen at random, will be available at the game, the same number as vanilla aFFO.
2. 3. Both hard and soft occupation banlists were introduced in small Mini Expansion 2 prior to Norwegians, which has randomized harvest tokens, 1x1 goods and alternate starting wealth variant. The hard banlist is for occs that were too powerful. The soft one is for cards that were underpowered.

[Lofski]

Ok thanks, good to know. So Mini exp 2 actually isn't available on BGA, and hence no option to inlude it, but we can still apply its occupation ban lists?

[Alucard648]

Ok thanks, good to know. So Mini exp 2 actually isn't available on BGA, and hence no option to inlude it, but we can still apply its occupation ban lists?

AFAIK, it would be bundled with Norwegians upon release.

[yoyoyo2020]

So if I 'use' the ban list, am I including the banned occupations or am I actually banning/ excluding the banned occupations?