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Stroom wrote: ↑12 December 2023, 23:10 Master is not enough. Need at least on more tier 200 elo above master. Plenty of bad players still exist in 700-900 range.

soggysocks wrote: ↑12 December 2023, 22:24 I would love to know why this is happening also. Please bring elo back. Don't care about ranking top 100 or whatever, but if there is no problem with bombing out, play is completely different. Hanabi has been 90% of why I have paid for bga for last several years. Hope this is just temporary or we at least get explanation soon

Travis Hall wrote: ↑13 December 2023, 02:49

Stroom wrote: ↑12 December 2023, 23:10 Master is not enough. Need at least on more tier 200 elo above master. Plenty of bad players still exist in 700-900 range.

I don’t disagree that a lot of players in the low end of master are not terribly good, but I think if I was to restrict games to players at 900+, it would usually take way to long to get a group together (at least for 4/5-player games).

dsailorgirl wrote: ↑13 December 2023, 02:28 I'm glad it's gone. People get very fixated in their score and forget that it's a cooperative game meant for fun. It seems to me that the loss of elo points related to disagreements in how to play leads to a lot of hostility with high scorers. Perhaps people will play more nicely or not at all when their elo (aka ego) score is irrelevant!. Good move BGA!

dsailorgirl wrote: ↑13 December 2023, 02:28 I'm glad it's gone. People get very fixated in their score and forget that it's a cooperative game meant for fun. It seems to me that the loss of elo points related to disagreements in how to play leads to a lot of hostility with high scorers. Perhaps people will play more nicely or not at all when their elo (aka ego) score is irrelevant!. Good move BGA!