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Greetings, Earth players !

Earth seems to be a popular game; top 200 on BGG and over 300k games played here on BGA. But, I often have trouble getting a game started. I am wondering whether my game settings are part of the problem?

The settings when I create an open game table:

2-player
Abundance
advanced
hidden setup until both players choose
Real-time scoring.

Thoughts?

My guess would be it's due to using the Abundance expansion. I have my settings to exclude it, mainly because I don't know how it works and the BGA tutorial doesn't cover it. It usually only takes me a couple minutes to get a game started.

Now I am really confused. I have been waiting for an arena game for 24+ hours. There is no selection of options for Arena games. How can it be that nobody has wanted to start an Arena game for 24+ hours? I have it set to "willing to play" any of the 3 fast turn-based options, with 18 of the 24 time slots selected. And the other 6 slots are set to "willing to play even though not preferred."