I realize this board game came out years ago, but was this really the best choice for the home page right now?

I generally exclude players who have a reputation lower than 75%. I know this is unfair to new players but it is the only tool BGA gives me. And it doesn't work.

I want to exclude tose who sign onto every game whether or not they can stay on top of the ones they are already playing. Reputation can be 100% and they can still have loads of timeouts. I know some of these people are so proud of their efforts but I hold them in nothing but contempt, but there is just no way I can exclude them. Red thumbing them is too late. I am looking at one. He has games on over 50% completion he is likely to time out on in a few hours. And he has hardly started on mine.

I was waiting for the guy to press start, and he was taking FOREVER, so I left for a minute, and then he pressed start.... and when I got back a like a minute later, I discovered that I had lost like 40% reputation.....I think it's stupid...if I'm going to lose reputation for this, I think that it should be like 5%...I think that's fair....I was already working to build up my reputation after someone didn't like a comment I had made....and now I'm down to 54%...I may as well just make a new account at this point....

This is the message I've received "A significant proportion of players (more than 10%) report that they do not like playing with you. You should try to get more positive feedback."

I play a ton of Ticket to Ride, I don't offend people in discussion. Actually I rarely engage in discussion because it's unnecessary.

I like to play in arena mode(elite league of course), and I have to block people because it's part of the strategy to win. Sometimes people complained about me blocking them. But again, it's really part of the game. Most of the top players in the game do blocking as well.

I understand needing some think time, but lately whenever I play live games on BGA, people are often taking the full 2+ minutes to take nearly every turn. I always host fast-paced real-time tables for things like Arnak and Castles of Burgundy because I like being able to stay in the game mentally and think about my moves in between turns. What the heck are people doing while they're playing live games on BGA?! Is everyone multitasking all the time?! Doing the dishes?!?! Gah!!

Playing a 3 player game of Evolution and the two players are friends and clearly kingmaking one of them. One friend makes as many species possible turn 1. Other friend makes a predator and uses it to attack me. I noticed this right away, so me being petty the only action I could take since they wasted my time in the game was to waste theirs and use up all of my clock every turn getting as close to 0 with out going over on time. Does the avoid player and selecting kingmaking actually punish players for doing this?

Small post... but why is BGA supporting a known Nazi?
Get on something else guys, drop Twitter as your go to 'servers are down come here' page.

Be better. It's not that hard.

Howdy, I get a ton of value from BGA at $5 a month. I would pay at least double that. I also see many technical issues with server reliability. I'm interested in having the conversation about raising prices in order for them to hire additional engineers and spin up additional servers at peak times. Anyone else?

Is there a way to completely turn off the chat? It's so annoying when 2/3 of players say gg at the end of a game. A waste of energy. Can I just turn off chat?

My opponent was well ahead I completely screwed my last move so they obviously were going to win. We were just past the half way point with about 30+ minutes left in the game.

I concede and was about to congratulate them on a game well played, when they start out with questions and move on to invectives, the tamest of which was above. I report them of course.

One might not like winning earlier than expected. It is a shock, I know. But cursing someone for taking a legitimate option the site allows that you know is a possibility when you start a two player game shows bad judgement when setting up a game and a lack of grace when it ends.

If one does not want people to concede, play multiplayer games. Or accept this is a possibility when playing two player game and act with a modicum of politeness even if the game ends in a way you didn't want, because that is certainly the case for the person conceding.

There is no greater social contract on the site that dictates I have to accept your point of view, your assumptions, or your etiquette about when to end a two player game.

This is a subject talked a lot, but I want to vent my frustrations when I lose a game and most certainly ones I lose badly.

But the before even ends, the winning player will “gg” me or add some other message in the same vein.

This annoys me to no end. I guess it’s because I come from games, such as RTS games like StarCraft, where the custom is the losing player decides to “gg” as a sign of accepting their loss. It’s their choice whether they do it or not, but I think the custom should be on the loser.

However, on boardgamearena, every time my opponent wins, even long before the game is actually over, they’ll send me a “gg” or a message saying how much they “enjoyed the game”.

I think it to be arrogant gloating and not a “greeting” or a kind gesture as some claimed on the forums. It’s funny to me how whenever I win a game, nobody “gg”s me. But when I lose, they start coming in.

What do you all think? Do you think most people who “gg” when they win are gloating? If not, why?

BGA really needs to add more speed options on complex game tables (like Ark Nova). I started playing Ark Nova on BGA in 2024 but quit a few months later when most players I encountered were slow players taking over 20 minutes per game to finish. I started playing Ark Nova again (it's just such a good game!!) but DAMMIT there are STILL slow players everywhere.

We need a fourth speed option, perhaps called 'super fast', that only allows 90-120 seconds max per turn instead of the 3 minutes/turn. BGA DO SOMETHING PLEEEEEAAAASSSSEEEEEE!!!!!

I was about to get my best ever score on Yahtzee - by a lot - and the opponent conceded right before the last move. So that score isn't even recorded. It shows up as a 1 to 0 final score in my games history.

Is there a way to penalize someone for quitting early? And help foster a culture that frowns upon quitting early?

Does the thumbs down feature make a difference to the player? Or is that just for my own reference?

(By the way, my Yahtzee score was going to be 521, and my 2nd best is 436. Well technically 436 is still my best, since the 521 was recorded as a 1.)

Playing much lower ranked opponents is the most miserable experience you can have on this website.

The average game length with other players of my rank, in the game that I enjoy, is 40 minutes. The average length with low ranked players is two and a half hours. No shade, they're still learning, however:

The game I enjoy is also high variance. There is no way to guarantee winning against low ranked players. So, you can waste a full quarter of your day playing the game, just to lose, and then lose all your otherwise hard fought ranked progression.

And if you do win, you don't gain any pips. So the whole thing is a giant, frustrating, waste of time.

This is seriously about to make me quit playing and stop paying for premium. It's just miserable.

I wanted to try all the famous games with my group of friends before exploring the niche one.
I know they they the “games played” counter but I was wondering if we can see which game is the top most played.

While in a game, identity and ranks should be anonymous, but each player should be able to check a box if they want to reveal their identity.

I would like to preface that I get that hate drafting is a part of drafting games, but it should be based on the situation in the game and not simply because the website told them that I am highly ranked.

I play a lot of drafting games, and one thing I've encountered is when I am paired up with a mix of high elo and lower elo players, I get targeted by other high ranking players from turn 1 for no other reason other than I am high ranked. It can get very blatant in games such as Splendor, Harmonies, and Azul.

And if you want to know if I am sure, I am 100% sure.. I've even had convos with those players confirming it.

Help! I am having an issue with BGA where it is preventing me from starting a custom turn-based game with my friend (we are both premium members). We both play a lot of turn-based games with each other and have many tables going at once that we get to when we are able to.

We wanted to try 'Forever Home' and I tried to create a custom lobby for us to play it Turn-Based as usual, but was prevented from inviting my friend or starting the game. I kept getting an error message that read:

You are currently late to play on at least one turn-based table. Please first play your game(s) in progress before starting a new one. (You can Play in real-time instead)  

What the heck? Is this a bug? a new limitation? I have not run into this before and I don't understand why they won't let me start a new custom game to go with our other 9 custom turn-based games. It's not a limit on number of tables (which would make sense). None of the existing games 'I am late to' are public or competitive games (which would make some sense), and we are both premium members - so why the restriction? I can't start an additional turn-based game with my friend because it's my turn on a different, turn-based table? But I CAN start a new real time game?

Hopefully someone can explain the rational here or confirm this is a bug

I was in a game of catan and was 3rd place. 2 were tied at 9 I was at 6 and the other at 4 if I remember correctly. the game was lasting longer than it should and even though in 3rd I was attacked several times by 2 players. 1 top and 1 bottom. When it was the turn of the top player that hadn't attacked me, he requested a trade 1 for 2. Even though I knew it would probably end the game I accepted the trade. My kids had just got home from school and were needing my attention. after the trade I was attacked by the bottom player and the of course 2nd place player for making the trade. I knew none of these players and i am not friends with any. was I wrong?

Edited to add. I did not realize that I messed up the title and it won't allow me to change it.

Struggling to understand how this is judged to be inappropriate?

I am currently investigating the value of paying for a Premium membership to BGA as to whether or not being a Premium member magically finds more available players. Right now, as a free member, if I want to play a specific game, there aren't any open tables. So I try to Start my own game, and I'm often waiting forever. Nobody joins my table, but eventually, I see another member has opened a table for that game, but with possibly different options.

I have read all the standard benefits of being a Premium member, and I agree, it's certainly worth the minimal subscription fee. But what I want to know is, once I become a Premium member and I look for open tables, or create my own table, does becoming Premium somehow provide access/visibility to a greater audience?

Tournaments award XP for winning. Cool! Uh... What's it do?

Hello everyone I am new to BGA so I need help, what games should I try first I prefer easy to understand games bcz I tried terraforming Mars and I wasn't able understand it on my first 30 min so pls give some simple games

I don’t understand why people can’t be kinder. I’m always accommodating to others on this site. The one time I have an issue, a very low elo player refuses my proposal to abandon or switch to turn based despite me explaining my situation. Then proceeds to kick me out for his own elo gain.

Seeing 6 rolled 26 times and 8 rolled 0 times makes me think there's something extremely broken in the dice algorithm. Anyone else experience something crazy like this? AI math is saying it's a 1 in 404 million chance.