Board Game Arena

With the new loading screen people are taking advantage of multi accounts. It's especially rampant in games like BANG!

Reporting seems to do nothing as it is very difficult to prove. Only solution right now is to red thumb and avoid.

Could you explain how a change in loading screen helps people who want to use multi account?
Sorry I don't get it.

Grimwold wrote: ↑30 January 2026, 16:24 Could you explain how a change in loading screen helps people who want to use multi account?
Sorry I don't get it.

With the new loading screen in arena , you can insure with 100% certainty that both accounts( or more) get into the same game immediately.

Now that in Arena it's necessary to accept the game, you can just decline every time until those accounts finally queue together. It's much much easier to coordinate. Before , with arena you were automatically queued instantly into a game without being able to decline or accept so there was always a chance that the multi account would not be able to get into the game.

The only solution I see right now is either 1)allow only premium accounts to play arena but would decrease the player base immensely or 2) instead of 100+ ELO being the only restriction make it for accounts at least 3 months old or whatever but even then it won't be fail safe

Bang already had a problem with multi accounting so reverting to the old system doesnt solve anything. It seems like every season there are complaints in the forums about the current arena leader being a cheater. There are some better solutions like fixing the elo in bang and increasing the amount needed to get into arena, making a min number of games (50 or whatever) because currently it only takes 2 wins to get to 100 elo, no new accounts etc. measures like these should be put in place to prevent dummy accounts or at least make the process so much harder for cheaters.

Maybe if a player quits 2 games in a single season that account is restricted from entering arena again for a month (because ppl quit games they are losing with their dummy account).