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Gunslinger99 wrote: ↑09 February 2020, 10:39 This player clearly stated he wanted the same competitive experience, but without the Elo visible. It's not at all equivalent to training mode.
A valid answer was "sorry you just have training mode for now, we won't provide your feature".

I don't want to know about it and I don't care to play with players who care about that. I have absolutely no interest in playing competitively or with people who care about such things.

You're wrong. You can stop being horrified on someone else's behalf. Training mode is the perfect answer for him.

Please everyone, let's try to be kind to each other when communicating, and not assume bad intentions from others? It's usually not the case.

https://boardgamearena.com/faq?anchor=f ... munication

We are on the internet, but the person reading you is a real human, living life and experiencing emotions the same way as you do.

"I think a nicer answer would have been" rather than "A valid anwer was"

"I think you are wrong" instead of "You are wrong"

while retaining the same meaning, would have been so much nicer to read (and actually, if you think about it, they would probably also have been nicer for you to write).

Rico Cordova wrote: ↑08 February 2020, 17:20 It is my understanding that by choosing training mode, I would effectively remove a huge portion of potentials players from my options for opponents. If this is the case, it is not a suitable substitution for removing references to ELO.

I have rather good experiences in finding opponents when choosing training mode and playing turnbased games.
Also for not so popular games like Senet or KoiKoi-Rainvariant.
(Although I didn't started this kind of games lately after introduction of Arena Mode).

You can also look for groups to join like:
Talkative and friendly games
https://boardgamearena.com/group?id=1088438
or
Game Tutors
https://boardgamearena.com/group?id=1111129
last one started to learn eachother new games but is also very open to playing friendly games in training mode.

Een wrote: ↑09 February 2020, 14:36 Please everyone, let's try to be kind to each other when communicating, and not assume bad intentions from others? It's usually not the case.

https://boardgamearena.com/faq?anchor=f ... munication

We are on the internet, but the person reading you is a real human, living life and experiencing emotions the same way as you do.

"I think a nicer answer would have been" rather than "A valid anwer was"

"I think you are wrong" instead of "You are wrong"

while retaining the same meaning, would have been so much nicer to read (and actually, if you think about it, they would probably also have been nicer for you to write).

+1