Congratulations to all of the winners of Season 5!
New feature: Games Gurus
As you know, there is always plenty of discussion about the Arena settings: why is this option enabled? Why 3 players and not 4? And so on...
We used to tell you to use forum polls to propose and vote for the best Arena settings. However, only a few of you were actually taking part in the votes, and some of you were not even aware of their existence.
As a community-based website, we would like to find a community-based solution for this: the Game Gurus.
If you are one of the most active players for game X, you will now be a member of a a group called "X's Gurus." If you are Guru for a game, you can see it on the "Community" page.
As a key member of the community, being a member of this group is going to give you you special powers. For now, the only special power you have is "propose & vote for the next Arena settings." More powers will come in the future- but this news is about Arena so let's stick to this for now. 🙂
At the end of the new Season, the suggestions & votes will be taken into account when upgrading the Arena settings: the best proposition for each game will be applied to the corresponding game.
This feature is new and certainly has some defects, but we are going to see what happens and let it evolve until it reaches this objective: to make sure the Arena settings fits your needs.
Yet another improvement for turn-based Arena
Following your feedback on the last season, we improved the end of the Arena Turn-based again.
Some reminders: At the end of a season, for turn based games that did not "finish in time," the player who consumed the most time will lose the game (all the opponents will be winners).
At the end of Season 3, we stopped all turn-based games in progress, and a lot of you were frustrated by this. For the end of Season 4, we did things differently, allowing you to finish the game (despite the fact that Arena points were recorded).
However, some of you were frustrated because it allowed some players to make a "final bump" in the Arena ranking, at the very end of the season by gaining points following wins using the timeout of turn-based.
This is the reason we made the following adjustment for the end of this season:
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The rule remains the same: player who consumed the most time during the whole game (= player who is the most responsible for the delay) loses the game, and his/her Arena rank will be modified accordingly.
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The other players will not gain/losee any Arena points.
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The game itself can continue in training mode. It means that you can finish the game if you want to, or leave it without penalty if you do not want to.
With all the changes made and tested during the past 4 seasons, we think that we now have a good solution for turn-based Arena. 🙂
Important reminder: recent games are not concerned by the end of this season.
All games published (= out of Beta) less than 1 month before the end of a season are not concerned by the end of the season (no trophies, no relegation).
** Season 6 is NOW launched. **
The new Arena is going to be opened in a few hours.
Some Arena configurations have been updated:
Terra Mystica: Base game map / Landscape off
Stone Age: 4 players
7 Wonders new format is: 4p (winter) - 3p (spring) - 4p (summer) - 5p (autumn) => 4 players this seasons
Kalah: 6 stones (following a poll)
Tokaido: Crossroads active
Tarot: players=5, Bonus=Poignées + Misères, Minimum bid=Guard
Unconditional Surrender: USSR 1941
Welcome To: advanced
Go: Big Komi
Medina: Players=3, Fountain=enabled, Tea tiles=enabled, Merchants on lower tiles=enabled, Neutral Rooftops=disabled
Nautilus: Domain card visible
Hailclue: Turbo mode
Letter Tycoon: 2 players
We try to follow everything and to catch all of your suggestions / polls: sorry if we miss something. The new "Game Gurus" feature will certainly make the Arena settings evolution way better for Season 7. 🙂
Some explanation about: relegations
At the end of each season, after winners have been awarded, you are relegated.
Some custom relegation rules may have been applied to a game for some reason (ex: we decided to reduce the number of leagues), but in general here is what happens:
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For games with 6 or 5 different leagues, all players are decreased by 3 leagues.
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For games with 4 different leagues, all players are decreased by 2 leagues.
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For games with 2 or 3 different leagues, all players are decreased by 1 league.
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For all games and all leagues, your number of Arena point is reset to 1, and your AES ("Arena Elo") is reset to 1500.
** It's up to you to find the way to the elite!
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May the odds be ever in your favor!
Arena Sæson 6: Det er Guru-tid!
Tillykke til alle vinderne af sæson 5!
Ny funktion: Spilguruer
Som du ved, er der altid masser af diskussioner om Arena-indstillingerne: hvorfor er denne mulighed aktiveret?
Hvorfor 3 spillere og ikke 4?
Og så videre...
Vi plejede at fortælle dig at bruge forumundersøgelser til at foreslå og stemme på de bedste Arena-indstillinger.
Imidlertid deltog kun få af jer faktisk i afstemningerne, og nogle af jer var ikke engang klar over deres eksistens.
Som et community-baseret websted vil vi gerne finde en community-baseret løsning på dette: Game Gurus.
Hvis du er en af de mest aktive spillere til spil X, vil du nu være medlem af en gruppe kaldet "X's Gurus." Hvis du er Guru til et spil, kan du se det på siden "Community".
Som et nøglemedlem i samfundet vil det at være medlem af denne gruppe give dig særlige kræfter.
Indtil videre er den eneste specielle magt, du har, "foreslå og stem til de næste Arena-indstillinger." Flere kræfter vil komme i fremtiden - men denne nyhed handler om Arena, så lad os holde os til dette indtil videre.
I slutningen af den nye sæson vil forslagene og stemmerne blive taget i betragtning, når Arena-indstillingerne opgraderes: det bedste forslag til hvert spil vil blive anvendt på det tilsvarende spil.
Denne funktion er ny og har bestemt nogle mangler, men vi vil se, hvad der sker, og lade den udvikle sig, indtil den når dette mål: at sikre, at Arena-indstillingerne passer til dine behov.
Endnu en forbedring for turbaseret Arena
Efter din feedback på den sidste sæson forbedrede vi slutningen af Arena Turn-baserede igen.
Nogle påmindelser: Ved turneringsbaserede spil, der ikke "sluttede i tide" i slutningen af en sæson, mister den spiller, der har brugt mest tid spillet (alle modstandere er vindere).
I slutningen af sæson 3 stoppede vi alle igangværende turn-baserede spil, og mange af jer var frustrerede over dette.
I slutningen af sæson 4 gjorde vi tingene anderledes, så du kunne afslutte spillet (på trods af at Arena-point blev registreret).
Nogle af jer var dog frustrerede, fordi det gjorde det muligt for nogle spillere at lave en "sidste bump" i Arena-placeringen i slutningen af sæsonen ved at få point efter sejre ved hjælp af timeout for turbaseret.
Dette er grunden til, at vi foretog følgende justering i slutningen af denne sæson:
- Reglen forbliver den samme: spiller, der har brugt mest tid i løbet af hele spillet (= spiller, der er mest ansvarlig for forsinkelsen) mister spillet, og hans / hendes Arena-rang vil blive ændret i overensstemmelse hermed.
- De andre spillere vinder / mister ingen Arena-point.
- Selve spillet kan fortsætte i træningstilstand. Det betyder, at du kan afslutte spillet, hvis du vil, eller lade det være uden straf, hvis du ikke vil.
Vigtig påmindelse: de seneste spil er ikke bekymrede ved slutningen af denne sæson.
Alle offentliggjorte spil (= uden for Beta) mindre end 1 måned før sæsonens afslutning er ikke berørt af sæsonens afslutning (ingen trofæer, ingen nedrykning).
Sæson 6 er NU lanceret.
Den nye Arena åbnes om et par timer.
Nogle Arena-konfigurationer er blevet opdateret:
Terra Mystica: Basispilkort / Landskab slået fra
Stone Age: 4 spillere
7 Wonders nye format er: 4p (vinter) - 3p (forår) - 4p (sommer) - 5p (efterår) => 4 spillere denne sæson
Kalah: 6 sten (efter en afstemning)
Tokaido: Korsvej aktiv
Tarot: spillere = 5, Bonus = Poignées + Misères, Mindste bud = Guard
Ubetinget overgivelse: USSR 1941
Velkommen til: avanceret
Gå: Big Komi
Medina: Spillere = 3, Springvand = aktiveret, Te-fliser = aktiveret, Forhandlere på lavere fliser = aktiveret, Neutrale hustage = deaktiveret
Nautilus: Domænekort synligt
Hailclue: Turbo-tilstand
Letter Tycoon: 2 spillere
Vi prøver at følge alt og fange alle dine forslag / afstemninger: undskyld, hvis vi savner noget. Den nye "Game Gurus" -funktion vil helt sikkert gøre Arena-indstillingerne meget bedre i sæson 7.
Nogle forklaringer om: nedrykninger
I slutningen af hver sæson, efter at vinderne er tildelt, rykker du ned.
Nogle tilpassede nedrykningsregler kan være blevet anvendt på et spil af en eller anden grund (f.eks: vi besluttede at reducere antallet af ligaer), men generelt sker der her:
- For spil med 6 eller 5 forskellige ligaer reduceres alle spillere med 3 ligaer.
- For spil med 4 forskellige ligaer reduceres alle spillere med 2 ligaer.
- For spil med 2 eller 3 forskellige ligaer reduceres alle spillere med 1 liga.
- For alle spil og alle ligaer nulstilles dit antal Arena-point til 1, og din AES ("Arena Elo") nulstilles til 1500.
Må oddsene altid være på din side!