Board Game Arena

You are more and more to play on Board Game Arena, and we are hosting more and more games. Unfortunately, the BGA game lobby has been conceived a *long* time ago for less players and less games.

We feel that our goals are to make you discover many new games, to make sure every game is played, and to make sure you'll find opponents for all your games. These objectives are difficult to fulfill with the current game lobby.

We could have written a thousand words about "why" and "how" we imagine this new game lobby, but the best thing to do is probably to let you discover by yourself how it looks like. And of course, please tell us your feelings about it

Discover the future game lobby

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It seems to be a incorrect link: it brings me to the normal home page!

Hi,

If the link does not work for you, try this one (in this case, English language is forced):

Try the new lobby

sourisdudesert wrote:Hi,

If the link does not work for you, try this one (in this case, English language is forced):

Try the new lobby

That's right, thank you!

The ability to choose which game tables are shown first in the lobby will be very useful at times - definitely a positive tweak!
I think one should also be able to choose which game's tables are shown first in case of a few chosen ("wanted") games, because now the tables are sorted by the time they were created, ignoring which game they are for. Sorting could be optional?
Another suggestion: "Number of players that want to play this game now" could tell not only the number, but also other stats of those players, like reputation and (especially) ELO rank (like beginners, average, good players, etc.), this way one would get much more useful information if, for example, they only want to play with good players, but not beginners.

I like the implementation of filtering the games you want, is comfortable .

@Uxhmer:

If you start a table of a game, you can see the list of "available players for this game", with their ELO rank (and you can also suggest them to join the table).

sourisdudesert wrote:@Uxhmer:

If you start a table of a game, you can see the list of "available players for this game", with their ELO rank (and you can also suggest them to join the table).

Ah, didn't check there before - thanks for clearing it out.

Excellent idea!
Will the list of games I want to play be saved between sessions?

Why isn't this the default lobby at this point? It appears to work great, and is such a big improvement.