Board Game Arena

I created a BGA bot that you can use to do a few things. This is similar to the recently posted topic about discord servers (https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewto ... =3&t=17809), which points to a server where this bot is used.

- Create BGA games with options*

- Add friends*

- List all tables that a player or players have going.


* Requires sign in.

You can add it to your server with https://discord.com/api/oauth2/authoriz ... &scope=bot.

I wanted to share this in case others might find this useful.

To save anyone else from searching, you can find out a bit more about the capabilities of this bot at https://github.com/pocc/bga_discord

I've added content to the README and it links to sub documents for BGA and TFM (terraforming mars) commands.

Thanks to @mavit for a pull request!

If you have any questions about capabilities, feel free to ask them here.

So just to check, you can't create realtime games?

And it seems like it's impossible to start a game of Carcassonne now that hunters and gatherers exists

I try
!bga make Carcassonne

and it responds
carcassonne matches [carcassonne,carcassonnehuntersandgatherers]. Use more letters to match.

These are good questions.

1. Default is speed:1/day. To change the speed, add `speed:fast`, `speed:normal`, or `speed:slow` to your command.
2. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. It should be fixed and you should be able to create games for Carcassonne and Carcassonne: Hunters and Gatherers.

Pocc wrote: ↑24 October 2020, 07:32 1. Default is speed:1/day. To change the speed, add `speed:fast`, `speed:normal`, or `speed:slow` to your command.

This surprised me too. I expected the botʼs default to be the same as BGAʼs default, which is real-time normal speed. As it happens, this is usually what I want.

Having to remember to append `speed:normal` to every `make` command doesnʼt seem great. If Iʼm running my own instance of the bot I can hack it to change the default, but this doesnʼt seem great either. Perhaps the bot should remember which options a user specifies, and repeat those if they later make a table without mentioning them.

That's a good point - I'd create an issue.

The bot is now interactive and saves preferences so if you want to force a specific setting when you call it, it will obey that.

Otherwise, it will use the last-used setting you used for that game on BGA.