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#109291: "Arena mode games are all just a few variants of the same basic puzzle"
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Suggestion: in my opinion, the following would greatly improve the game implementation
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This was roughly my 30th Arena game, and so far EVERY Arena game I have played has been a variant of the same basic puzzle, such that it is trivial to give the answer just with a quick glance at a couple of the criteria cards.
This is extremely dull for a so-called competitive mode.• What is your browser?
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3. Jan 2024 0:15 • poptasticboy • This suggestion has not been analyzed by delopers yet:
Every Arena mode game so far has included the criteria cards
C) "Number of 3s",
F) "More Evens/Odds",
E) "A certain digit is largest/smallest",
D) "Compare 2 digits",
B) "The digit not in D is Odd/Even" and
A) "one of the 2 digits from D now compared to 3 or compared to 4".
These can result only in the solutions 225/252/522/441/414/144, with the unique solution easily visible only by seeing which criteria cards are in slots D & E.
C) "Number of 3s",
F) "More Evens/Odds",
E) "A certain digit is largest/smallest",
D) "Compare 2 digits",
B) "The digit not in D is Odd/Even" and
A) "one of the 2 digits from D now compared to 3 or compared to 4".
These can result only in the solutions 225/252/522/441/414/144, with the unique solution easily visible only by seeing which criteria cards are in slots D & E.
3. Jan 2024 0:20 • poptasticboy • This suggestion has not been analyzed by delopers yet:
Also, I notice that it is possible to set preferences for what type of puzzles you want to play in Arena Mode, even allowing change of player count and allowing the "Daily Challenge" option.
Surely this is inappropriate for Arena Mode. Daily Challenge should not be available in competitive modes at all, and most games pick a fixed set of options for each season's Arena Mode that can't be changed by individual players.
Surely this is inappropriate for Arena Mode. Daily Challenge should not be available in competitive modes at all, and most games pick a fixed set of options for each season's Arena Mode that can't be changed by individual players.
3. Jan 2024 0:32 • poptasticboy • This suggestion has not been analyzed by delopers yet:
Update ok, so I tried adjusting the settings and it finally gave me a different puzzle, so that seems to be the issue; it just kept throwing me into Classic/Easy/6 verifier games, and there are only very limited possible valid puzzles matching those settings.
Just to reiterate, it's completely inappropriate for a competitive mode such as Arena to allow players to choose settings in such a way that they can be guaranteed variants of the same puzzle over and over.
Just to reiterate, it's completely inappropriate for a competitive mode such as Arena to allow players to choose settings in such a way that they can be guaranteed variants of the same puzzle over and over.
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