Board Game Arena

As you know, we are continuously adding new stuff to the new lobby (for example this, this, or this).

Today, we introduce a new feature that allows you to be aware when there are players waiting for opponents for a game, directly from the "Games" panel.

Example: there are at now players waiting for "For Sale", and none for "Ticket to Ride":




This feature is part of a set of features that will improve the possibility to look for several games at the same time, for those of you who want to maximize their chance to find opponents quickly.

Note: this feature concerns only realtime games.

can I queue for multiple games at the same time, using the new lobby?

So the prefer way is players use 'Favorites' in game page, instead of the old lobby, they can still see which game has an available table.

Premium players can custom own game lists outside the 'Favorites', but if they put a game into 'List A', they can't put the same game into 'List B'. This need to be fixed.

In the game page, click a game with a blue box surrounding, then click play, then click shown table waiting for players, a total of 3 clicks then players can play. The current old lobby also takes 3clicks to play a game, create, confirm and click play now to go back to the main lobby.

I wish the lobby would tell me which of my friends already know the games I want to play. This would really help me make matches

Why is it a blue border, instead of the "bright green real-time" color ?

good job everyone

thoun wrote: ↑16 March 2023, 18:57 Why is it a blue border, instead of the "bright green real-time" color ?

Ah, thanks for this comment. I was looking at the image and tried to figure out the difference. It didn't jump to my eye until I read your comment.

Might have been useful in the initial posting to give a hint what to look for.

,,maybe add little meeple icons at the top-left of the image to indicate the players-waiting...

the border alone is not intuitive, but as suggested bright-green would be better.

Yes yes and yes! I can only repeat what's been said already:

"I wish the lobby would tell me which of my friends already know the games I want to play. This would really help me make matches"

And also

"Might have been useful in the initial posting to give a hint what to look for."