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I'm loving the base set so far and plan to start playing with Pantheon soon. Maybe add Agora to it later; the whole package. Just wondering what BGA'ers average wait time for auto-matching is when everything is enabled?

Also this may be a broad question, but do you think that playing with both expansions is too much and/or too fiddly? Well, maybe the fact that playing online and everything is automated means it's less fiddly...so there's that.

Are turn times longer with expansion(s)?

Thanks.

Breeze1985 wrote: ↑23 April 2023, 07:28 I'm loving the base set so far and plan to start playing with Pantheon soon. Maybe add Agora to it later; the whole package. Just wondering what BGA'ers average wait time for auto-matching is when everything is enabled?

It is more dependent on opponent skill youre searching for and the time of day - prob. best chances to find someone quick is to play (also) against higher ranked players (low elo, either dont play both expansions or become very not low elo quite quick ) AND searching during 3-9 PM in the european time zones.

Breeze1985 wrote: ↑23 April 2023, 07:28 Also this may be a broad question, but do you think that playing with both expansions is too much and/or too fiddly?

Are turn times longer with expansion(s)?

It's not too fiddly, neither online nor irl - but senate and gods need more space on the table (and if you havent enough space it gets a little fiddly^^)

Turns take only longer if the players are unexperienced, either in complexity of the given game version or playing it in real time; or are just very very serious about winning. You can check out my game times for having a good overview . I'd say that I would be maybe 1-2 minutes faster per game in just the base 7wd, just because of less moves to make. The limiting factor is the speed of turn execution btw.