Having fun around an online game table is a cocktail made of 2 main ingredients: a good game, and nice/kind/fair play/smart players.

We're very lucky to have 97 good games on BGA, and to enjoy the nicest community of players: YOU! To build this community, we tried to build a reputation system that makes sure your opponents will be nice, and to avoid sore losers who quit games before the end.

This system was quite efficient, but it had some obvious flaws and was also very complicated to understand for beginners. We aim to fix this from now on by introducing a kind of "reputation score" : the Karma (☯).

Basically, the Karma is a number between 0☯ (very very bad reputation) and 100☯ (absolutely perfect reputation). New players starts at 75☯, each game played to the end gives you +1☯, and each time you leave a game in progress you lose 10☯ (or 20☯ if you are a recidivist). With that simple single value, you can now see if your opponent has a good/average/bad reputation, and accept or decline a game with him/her.

You can see this system as a "summary" of the reputation of a player. Note that if you prefer to see the old "number of leave / number of overtime / ..." infos you just have to mouse over (or long press for touch devices) the reputation bar to have them back.

Of course a lot of you will have plenty of questions ("why?", "how?") about this new system: so we wrote a special "FAQ" as the first comment for this news.

We hope you'll enjoy the new system and wish you a Good Karma 😉

Read the FAQ

UPDATE October 20th : 24 hours after the introduction of the new reputation system, following your feedback and the data we collected, we made the following minor adjustments.