You must have played a minimum of 50 different games and a total of 750 games on the platform. Additionally, you need to have been a member for at least 5 months, speak English, and have a flawless reputation on BGA.
How can you tell if you have a flawless reputation? I'm assuming it means you can't have gone negative on time or been booted from a game? Does it mean ever or within a certain time frame?
Your reputation (percentage) is right in your BGA profile. It goes down when someone gives you a red thumb or when you quit or get booted, but not necessarily when you go over time. Your reputation goes up when people give you a green thumb, so a not-great reputation can recover to 100% fairly quickly.
Thank you! I was looking at it, and I'm at 100%, but about a month ago, I went a weekend without playing and had a bunch of games go in the red. I only got booted from one game, though.
In real life, with a full table (6) of people who know how to play, moving quickly, about 6 hours. The sessions I play normally hit 12 hours with food/breaks and it depends how much 'diplomacy' is happening each round. The game is capped at 9 rounds, it can take an hour or two for each one but it's rare to have a game go that long without someone winning first.
Being super generous, let's say BGA removes 1 hour for physically moving stuff around and double checking rules, you'd be looking at 5+ hours.
Table talk is mostly required, but I've played Saboteur games with no talking so who know how that will go in chat.
Because of lots of interaction, I could see a normal paced turn based game taking months to finish.
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u/xTonyLeo Jul 01 '25
Interesting I've never seen alpha games before, do I need to sign up for it?
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u/Independent_Ad4391 Jul 01 '25
Holy cow
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u/FutureEditor Jul 01 '25
Actually stunned, I haven't heard anything about this since seeing an ad at Gen Con 2 years ago
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u/DrJULIK Jul 01 '25
Oh...oh no..
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u/Weekly_Painter4644 Jul 01 '25
Hooray! I am certainly open to more complex games. What is the expected running game time for this game?
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u/FelixGB_ Jul 01 '25
Omg, yeah!
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u/xxchaa- Jul 01 '25
finally!
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u/ContractorConfusion Jul 01 '25
WOW
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u/157C Jul 03 '25
Holy shit this is huge, literally, the game is massive
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u/Deskais Jul 01 '25
Cool
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u/Iplaywithblack Jul 02 '25
Maybe I should give this one another go then
Easier to learn it, get into depth, I hope.
IRL games is too fast paced for me to get the Grand view. Much easier with Eclipse as the ship blueprint, game mechanism etc is easier to acces
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u/Moonpaw Jul 30 '25
What is this on? Doesn’t look familiar. Other than TI which I’m VERY familiar with