Does anyone play this game?

[JudeKratzer]

I'd like to play, if you're still interested!

[senskiev]

We play mostly on Arena, not realtime. Unfortunately, there are not so many players, and because of this at the beginning you will be losing all the time. At the moment I am top 4 player and novices often complain about impossibility to beat regular players in this game

[Cos-]

We play mostly on Arena, not realtime.

Who is "we"? Do we have some stats on how many people play this game arena vs. non-arena? I _never_ play arena (no interest in that kind of competition), but I don't play real time either - I play turn based only. I don't have much trouble finding games, as long as I don't expect them to always start the same day I open the table; for 3-player games especially, it's not unusual for it to take until the next day for the table to fill. But I've always got 4-6 tables of photosynthesis going at any time, which is what I want (I have plenty of other games going too).

I've been around 5th or 6th place globally by Elo for about a year now, and I've had multiple matches against at least 4 of the other top 10 plays during this time, all of those outside Arena (though it's entirely possible the same people also play in Arena). I also get a good mix of newer and medium Elo players.

[JeremyBoyd]

Love this game ... own it in real life, but play on BGA far more often. I primarily play real-time. These days, I do find I can get a real-time game going within about 5-10 minutes (requires a bit of patience); not always, but probably 60% of the time. I've also started playing turn-based a bit more, as I don't always have 40 minutes at my disposal (10 min waiting; 30 min playing).