Waiting times

[Jellby]

Arena or not, a premium game needs at least one premium player at the table.

Imagine a situation where there's only one premium player and many non-premium players wanting to play. The non-premium players can queue as much as they want, but they'll have to way until the premium player comes and joins some table. On the other hand, the premium player can come at any time and join any table or create their own one and probably have it filled immediately.

[FrankJones]

I don't think there are any issues with playing arena as a non premium member. I know one person who is not premium and plays many arena games each day.

[Yoperbig1]

If you try to start a game with certain parameters you can't get any traction.

Turn based arena games take forever to get a hit. That is unless you choose to let just about anybody play. If you filter for players average or above and players with karma above 50 %, then it takes a long time to get someone who fits the criterion. Number of turns per day doesn't really matter.

I want a couple of games going at a time. Two or three. Nothing more. But I don't want to teach or beat the crap out of someone who doesn't know what they are doing. I want to be challenged. But I understand that there are those who don't want to stoop down to my level either.

I think that the real issue is the dearth of players that want to only play real time. And even within that crowd is the many splits over number of players, prelude corps or not, colonies or not, etc. Or the slavish desire to only play Tharsis. Or no draft. Heaven forbid we step outside our comfort zone. If you are actually that good, then a little variety shouldn't be that much for your "superior intellect".

Kirk laughs at your superior intellect. And Spock mocks your two dimensional thinking.