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can't wait for my grandchildren to inherit my turn based games on this one

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Note - on the ones I set up, the ELO to enter is set to zero, as it's understood that getting to 100 ELO may take months for people who only play the occasional slow game of it on BGA before entering the tournament. Be sure you understand all the rules of the game before signing up. Be sure you understand all tournament settings listed on this page before signing up.

Awesome work! Just started my first game but I'm already loving the way you've done the interface! Surprisingly mobile friendly!

Never exxpected a surprise like this one. Thanks and congratulations to the BGA team. Keep the good work up !

Gagneto wrote: ↑14 October 2026, 16:09 can't wait for my grandchildren to inherit my turn based games on this one

Lollllll

What a day! What a lovely day!

Congrats to all of you. What a great accomplishment. Plays great! Lots of great details in the UX.

I just read that free users can only pick from one of six factions (Sol, Hacan, Xxcha, Jolnar, Baron, Sardakk) while Premium users can select from any. If this is true, I will never play this as I won't support paywalling game content. I say this as a person who has been a premium user for years.

Premium users get the ability to start premium games and get some QoL upgrades like auto-color preference selection, stat tracking, and custom avater usage. That's been the business model for years. Free users could always join the full version of premium games, albeit with longer queue times since they couldn't start the game.

Paywalling actual in-game content is a major deviation from the business model BGA has established from the very beginning of the website and it seems to only apply to this one game. This should be sounding the alarm bells for all free users as to what to expect going forward.

Locking free users out of content HURTS the paid subscribers. Fewer free users queueing up results in longer queue times for the paid subs. In this game, it also creates an imbalance of possible faction opponents when you're in a game with free subs. You're not going to get as much of a game variety if you get matched with 4-5 free users every time. That makes for a worse product.

If this is true, it an AWFUL move in all aspects.

The hype is so real!

This is awesome news! Congrats on the huge release.