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Serious question:
Is a pro account required to draw deer in Forest Shuffle Arena?

no

Mirascael wrote: ↑09 July 2026, 02:42 Serious question:
Is a pro account required to draw deer in Forest Shuffle Arena?

No, you can only do it with a regular account, if you get premium you have to play without the deer. This is done to demonstrate the superiority of premium users to regular users.

Anyways, while you've played the game with a non-premium account and drawn deer multiple times to know your question is an obvious joke, some people actually think premium users get secret powers. It's awkward at times, but I try avoiding encouraging their delusions too much, in case they start trying to be taken seriously.

On the contrary, my luck became worse after becoming pro. Hard to say.

Ceaseless wrote: ↑09 July 2026, 03:16

Mirascael wrote: ↑09 July 2026, 02:42 Serious question:
Is a pro account required to draw deer in Forest Shuffle Arena?

No, you can only do it with a regular account, if you get premium you have to play without the deer. This is done to demonstrate the superiority of premium users to regular users.

Anyways, while you've played the game with a non-premium account and drawn deer multiple times to know your question is an obvious joke, some people actually think premium users get secret powers. It's awkward at times, but I try avoiding encouraging their delusions too much, in case they start trying to be taken seriously.

Only in Arena.
I was somewhat hyperbolic, of course, occasionally I drew 1 or 2 deer towards the end of the game.
Out of Arena, the game works just fine, even in a high-ELO environment.
Anyway, after like a 22 lost to of 24 games losing streak in Arena, which I think is kinda unreal as there is no way I am THAT bad, especially not when I was 30 lost out of 60 games a month before when I was still pretty clueless on how to play the game.
That said, I've decided to ragequit BGA anyway (unfortunately they would not allow me to delete my account as long as I am still participating in games), so the issue has been solved.

a little bad plus a little unlucky can easily explain the losing streak

Mirascael wrote: ↑09 July 2026, 08:48

Ceaseless wrote: ↑09 July 2026, 03:16

Mirascael wrote: ↑09 July 2026, 02:42 Serious question:
Is a pro account required to draw deer in Forest Shuffle Arena?

No, you can only do it with a regular account, if you get premium you have to play without the deer. This is done to demonstrate the superiority of premium users to regular users.

Anyways, while you've played the game with a non-premium account and drawn deer multiple times to know your question is an obvious joke, some people actually think premium users get secret powers. It's awkward at times, but I try avoiding encouraging their delusions too much, in case they start trying to be taken seriously.

Only in Arena.
I was somewhat hyperbolic, of course, occasionally I drew 1 or 2 deer towards the end of the game.
Out of Arena, the game works just fine, even in a high-ELO environment.
Anyway, after like a 22 lost to of 24 games losing streak in Arena, which I think is kinda unreal as there is no way I am THAT bad, especially not when I was 30 lost out of 60 games a month before when I was still pretty clueless on how to play the game.
That said, I've decided to ragequit BGA anyway (unfortunately they would not allow me to delete my account as long as I am still participating in games), so the issue has been solved.

If you're at the point when you're lying about not drawing cards, you should probably take a break from the site.

Ceaseless wrote: ↑09 July 2026, 16:12 If you're at the point when you're lying about not drawing cards, you should probably take a break from the site.

I haven't been lying. Being able to play a deer at move 128, 3 turns before winter, I don't count that.

I'm just realising that you don't seem to have played the game ever, so I wonder why you would bother to reply to my post anyway.

Besides, I think I made it very clear that I've intended to ragequit on the spot, but bga would not allow me to do so.

Mirascael wrote: ↑09 July 2026, 18:08 I'm just realising that you don't seem to have played the game ever, so I wonder why you would bother to reply to my post anyway.

Because people insinuate that the randomization on BGA is somehow slanted in one way or another almost every day. All BGA games that need randomization use the same RNG engine, so any questions that come down to that core issue are not game-dependent. I don't have to have played a single game of Yahtzee on BGA to know that, no, the developer didn't go in and hide some code that gives you unlucky rolls and no, you don't need a Premium account to roll five 6s.

Mirascael wrote: ↑09 July 2026, 18:08

Ceaseless wrote: ↑09 July 2026, 16:12 If you're at the point when you're lying about not drawing cards, you should probably take a break from the site.

I haven't been lying. Being able to play a deer at move 128, 3 turns before winter, I don't count that.

I'm just realising that you don't seem to have played the game ever, so I wonder why you would bother to reply to my post anyway.

Besides, I think I made it very clear that I've intended to ragequit on the spot, but bga would not allow me to do so.

You do realize anyone can check your game history to see if you have drawn Deer, right? It's not even like they have to watch the full replays, a quick ctrl f search for deer will pop up drawn cases just fine.

There is nothing stopping me from answering your question. It has nothing to do with Forest Shuffle and requires no knowledge of Forest Shuffle to answer. The question itself is absurd enough to safely place it as a joke, but BGA has had a case of some accounts trying to take that stuff seriously or use it as troll/spam fodder, so the joke has gotten stale pretty quickly. Having mentally disturbed people spamming "BGA IS RIGGED" is probably not what the Forest Shuffle players want in their forums, so I made sure to clarify your post wasn't a serious one to help reduce the chance of that happening.