Board Game Arena

It seems that many players are confused by the "Give up" option.
Could developers make it more clear in the instructions? For example - make the button red instead of blue to stand out. Include instructions that say "press give up to concede the game with no penalty. Then bid. Partner then has the option to give up."
I think this would be helpful especially to non-English speaking players.

I'd rather bid 13

In all seriousness, good idea!

love this idea.

It would be worthwhile to let people who decide to give up the option of taking the elo and arena ranking hit if their partner doesn't want to give up but skip the Karma hit for giving up. Statistically if it happens to often with dummy accounts or accounts colluding it should be pretty obvious. I have no objection taking the ELO and points hit if I start a game I can't finish but the Karma hit should be at the discretion of your opponents and partner not an automatic policy from BGA.

They should just do away with Karma, neither use nor ornament.

Give Up should be automatic after a certain point in the game.
I've known players to drag games out deliberately.

The give up option shouldn't really be part of the bidding. Anytime a partnership wants to propose giving up should be acceptable. I still would like to see the option of giving up/quitting without the Karma penalty but a caution that frequently using that option can lead to your account being sanctioned.