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 6. sezona: čas je Guruja!
Čestitamo vsem zmagovalcem 5. sezone!
Nova funkcija: Games Guru
Kot veste, se o nastavitvah Arene vedno veliko razpravlja: zakaj je ta možnost omogočena?
Zakaj 3 igralci in ne 4?
In tako naprej...
Včasih smo vam govorili, da z anketami na forumih predlagate in glasujete za najboljše nastavitve Arene.
Vendar ste le nekateri izmed vas dejansko sodelovali pri glasovanju, nekateri pa se niti niste zavedali njihovega obstoja.
Kot spletno mesto, ki temelji na skupnosti, bi radi našli rešitev, ki temelji na skupnosti: guruji iger.
Če ste eden najbolj aktivnih igralcev igre X, boste zdaj član skupine, imenovane "X-ovi guruji". Če ste guru za igro, jo lahko vidite na strani "Skupnost".
Kot ključni član skupnosti vam bo članstvo v tej skupini dalo posebna pooblastila.
Za zdaj je edina posebna moč, ki jo imate, "predlagati in glasovati za naslednje nastavitve Arene." V prihodnosti bo prišlo več moči - toda ta novica govori o Areni, zato se tega zaenkrat držimo.
Ob koncu nove sezone bodo predlogi in glasovi upoštevani pri nadgradnji nastavitev Arene: najboljši predlog za vsako igro bo veljal za ustrezno igro.
Ta funkcija je nova in ima zagotovo nekaj napak, vendar bomo videli, kaj se bo zgodilo, in jo pustili razvijati, dokler ne doseže tega cilja: zagotoviti, da nastavitve Arene ustrezajo vašim potrebam.
Še ena izboljšava za potezno Areno
Po vaših povratnih informacijah o zadnji sezoni smo znova izboljšali konec Arena Turn-based.
Nekaj opomnikov: Na koncu sezone bodo igre, ki temeljijo na poteh in se niso "končale pravočasno", igralec, ki je porabil največ časa, izgubili igro (vsi nasprotniki bodo zmagovalci).
Ob koncu 3. sezone smo ustavili vse potezne igre, ki so v teku, in veliko vas je to razočaralo.
Za konec sezone 4 smo stvari storili drugače, kar vam je omogočilo, da končate igro (kljub temu, da so bile zabeležene točke Arena).
Nekateri pa ste bili razočarani, ker je nekaterim igralcem omogočil, da so na koncu sezone na lestvici Arene naredili "končni udarec", saj so po zmagah z iztekom časovne omejitve osvojili točke po zmagah.
To je razlog, da smo za konec te sezone naredili naslednje prilagoditve:
- Pravilo ostaja enako: igralec, ki je porabil največ časa med celotno igro (= igralec, ki je najbolj odgovoren za zamudo), izgubi igro in njegov / njen uvrstitev v Areni bo ustrezno spremenjen.
- Drugi igralci ne bodo pridobili / izgubili nobene točke v Areni.
- Sama igra se lahko nadaljuje v načinu treninga. Pomeni, da lahko igro dokončate, če želite, ali jo pustite brez kazni, če tega ne želite.
Pomemben opomnik: konec te sezone nedavne igre ne zadevajo.
Vse igre, objavljene (= brez beta) manj kot mesec dni pred koncem sezone, ne zadevajo konca sezone (brez trofej, brez izpadanja).
Sezona 6 se začne ZDAJ.
Novo Areno bodo odprli čez nekaj ur.
Posodobljene so nekatere konfiguracije Arene:
Terra Mystica: Osnovni zemljevid igre / Pokrajina izklopljena
Kamnita doba: 4 igralci
7 čudes nov format je: 4p (zima) - 3p (pomlad) - 4p (poletje) - 5p (jesen) => 4 igralci v tej sezoni
Kalah: 6 kamnov (po anketi)
Tokaido: križišče aktivno
Tarot: igralci = 5, bonus = Poignées + Misères, minimalna ponudba = straža
Brezpogojna predaja: ZSSR 1941
Dobrodošli v: napredni
Pojdi: Veliki Komi
Medina: igralci = 3, vodnjak = omogočeno, čajne ploščice = omogočeno, trgovci na spodnjih ploščicah = omogočeno, nevtralne strehe = onemogočene
Nautilus: vidna je kartica domene
Toča: Turbo način
Letter Tycoon: 2 igralca
Trudimo se slediti vsemu in ujeti vse vaše predloge / ankete: oprostite, če kaj zamudimo. Nova funkcija "Game Gurus" bo zagotovo izboljšala razvoj nastavitev Arene za 7. sezono.
Nekaj razlag o: izpadih
Na koncu vsake sezone ste po podelitvi zmagovalcev izpadli.
Nekatera pravila po meri za izpadanje so bila morda iz nekega razloga uporabljena za igro (na primer: odločili smo se zmanjšati število lig), toda na splošno se zgodi naslednje:
- Pri igrah s 6 ali 5 različnimi ligami se vsi igralci zmanjšajo za 3 lige.
- Pri igrah s 4 različnimi ligami se vsi igralci zmanjšajo za 2 ligi.
- Pri igrah z 2 ali 3 različnimi ligami se vsi igralci zmanjšajo za 1 ligo.
- Za vse igre in vse lige je vaše število točk Arena ponastavljeno na 1, AES ("Arena Elo") pa na 1500.
Naj ti bo usoda vedno naklonjena!