Board Game Arena

Takeover is an important mechanic, it allows for a lot more flexible strategies. It unnecessarily makes some cards useless and makes a pure military strategy much weaker, indirectly strengthening economic strategies. I guess people just love mindless strategies like 2x consume produce cycle or my personally least favorite turn 1 develop develop until the end of game.

For me, takeovers represents flexibility and maximum possibilities, making every game much more interesting. I understand there are offline tournaments etc, but I always forget to play and just prefer to finish games on my own time, arena mode is the best one, so please help bring it back, maybe next season.

This ruleset hasn't been seen since Season 1! Someone can double check for me (I think there was a RvI + Gathering Storm takeovers in season 12, I would be ok with that appearing again too).

Brink of War + Rebel vs. Imperium + The Gathering Storm

Goals
Takeover
Allow takeovers

New Worlds
Draft variant
No draft

Bring back takeover!

I tend to agree. It adds an extra dimension to the game, and helps counter some other tactics (Mediator/Contact Specialist is EXTREMELY powerful without the potential counter of Casus Belli, for instance).

I understand why people may not like it, but on the whole, I think it is better to have it than not.

If we're going to play with these janky expansions, may as well go all out with the balance. Takeover makes for a fairer game with more options to win.

Definitely would like to see more than zero takeovers in Arena mode — it's an interesting wrinkle, and the part where it's complicated and beginner-hostile isn't a real downside in Arena mode because Arena mode is clearly marked as "this is the full-contact version of the game."

Also it'd soothe my brain to be able to actually score the "-1 military or takeover power" goal chip with a takeover power; it bothers me that it's "broken" when takeovers are off.