I'm missing something - How do I join an Arena game?

[Zen Blade]

Hey folks,

Apologies for this question, but I have been trying to join a Small World Arena game for more than a week now and can never find any and my attempts to make them don't succeed.

I've played many normal Small World games on BGA now, I am doing fairly well... and now that the Arena is 4p, I wanted to play in the arena... but can't get into a game.

Any thoughts/suggestions? I feel like I must be missing something obvious, but I cannot figure it out.

Thank you in advance!

[Calmon70]

Hey folks,

Apologies for this question, but I have been trying to join a Small World Arena game for more than a week now and can never find any and my attempts to make them don't succeed.

I've played many normal Small World games on BGA now, I am doing fairly well... and now that the Arena is 4p, I wanted to play in the arena... but can't get into a game.

Any thoughts/suggestions? I feel like I must be missing something obvious, but I cannot figure it out.

Thank you in advance!

You can do the trick by switching "Real-Time" to "Turn-Based". I guess most strategy games are played in this mode.

[Zen Blade]

Thank you for the suggestion, Calmon.

I have been doing that, but still haven't seen anything. I'll keep trying.

I am wondering if it is a premium vs non-premium issue or some other settings issue.

Cheers,

[Falzano]

I'm premium and had your troubles.
I had to switch to turn game and almost immediately find a table.
Btw, it was only to try if it was working like this, since I don't like turn games.
I'm sad, because I like Smallworld, since the new Arena season, with game modality switched to 4 people, no one is playing in real time.
I'm not going to play again: I hope next season things will be different (maybe a 3 people game is more Realtime-friendly?)

[Zen Blade]

Thank you for the information, Falzano!

I did not realize how much people preferred real time.