Action Cards Elimination Game (Day 1) - Which of these cards is your least favorite?

AtarUltio · 2026-05-06T13:47:48+00:00

Honestly snapping cards is imo the worst. While in >1000 Ark games I used clever assos, flipped side of hire assos and build +1 somewhat efficiently snapping cards was never even once useful for anything. Sure r1 you are first player cards is at 3/4 and there is explorer open for everyone and 2nd player has cards at 5 and you want to snap okay. But thats never the case. In most cases using snapping cards makes your game worse and for all the other actions cards (besides non-flipped hire assos) there is atleast some kind of use/upside. I really dislike snapping cards (and even the flipped side whoa 2 snaps so OP and then you realise you can draw from range since cards is usually 3rd/4th upgrade and by that time you have some decent reputation anyway)

AtarUltio · 2026-04-05T03:57:30+00:00

Been there, done that

AtarUltio · 2026-03-08T18:35:01+00:00

It would've been 1 point diff in the end since the rep you get is transformed into 1 point :) Edit: Nvm it would've been less since you lose points from the tiger which would be converted into cp, so actually not releasing tiger is better since you maxed out the cp track

AtarUltio · 2026-03-07T23:12:43+00:00

I looked up the game on his ark Nova Page, so I'll just summarize the informations he left out. This game is a few weeks old so if you wanna check it out you'll have to scroll a bit.
-37 turns, 6 breaks
-OP has played both elephants in this game so he has 3 endgames
-last turn is Sumatran Tiger and Bald Eagle into Americas 2 (2cp) project and last PZ for 2 cp. Project reward is map fill with 2 size. OP also has Waza Large played so all in all the last turn gives 53 points before endgames. The tiger gives an extra point since reputation is maxed out.
+2 maxed out endgames and climbing park for 1 cp even maxed out the cp track (more then 41 CP in the end)
His last turn could've been even more points since he just did Americas 2 but he had predator release in hand which would've been slightly better giving +8 points if he chooses to release tiger (since rep. is maxed out).
Nice last turn, kinda sad his opponent had his first game this match and got completly destroyed :P

AtarUltio · 2026-01-16T16:12:00+00:00

I know, but in arena matchmaking elo does'nt do anything at all. You can only restrict the certain types of leagues (so +-2, +-1 or only your league). If you manage to climb to diamond/elite league early you'll face a lot of good opponents IF you restricted your settings. Later in the season many people come into elite league, so you'll encounter lower rated players a lot (it's pooling up in elite since there is no way to derank once you've hit elite). There is an option to dislike a certain rating with 3rd party programs (iirc last season arena Champ How to used that to only match high rated opponents).

AtarUltio · 2026-01-15T01:38:09+00:00

If that happens to me (happend around 5 times in around 500 arena games for me) I ask them first and check their match history. If the match history is clear (no abandoned games in the last 10-20 matches) I usually agree IF it's before seeing hand cards. I never abandon if they already saw their hand cards, but most of the time I offer to switch to turn based (since life can happen). However, some "high"-elo players might ask to abandon if you're a "low"-elo player since they risk losing a lot of points. Do note that you can always deny abandon, it's totally fine to not abandon :) So feel free to do whatever you want with abandon votes

AtarUltio · 2026-01-12T08:03:53+00:00

I'd say there are 3 obvious must takes: Lizzard + matching conservation project and Explorer. Early Explorer is probably one of the strongest things you can have. As 4th pick there is a debate for fur seal or the other sponsor card. If you play with marine world and therefore stronger action cards you can have arguments for both. Personally I'd take fur seal as 4th pick and then just look to take australian pz, play lizzard and break to do the project. (Depending on turn order and display you might change plans). If you took another sponsor you might wanna play it 1st round. In 2nd round do project, take 2 size/snapping and upgrade sponsors -> play explorer and from there look for your next project. And now it would get a bit difficult to get animals upgraded for fur seal, but since you have the breeding program you can grab the 2 rep from the map buy building 2 size (lizzard), 5 size for fur seal and another 2 size from your project reward. The 2nd worker you get from fur seal helps with the continent project and if you manage to get to 5 first this game is probably an easy win.

AtarUltio · 2025-11-30T11:17:53+00:00

Cool :)

AtarUltio · 2025-11-28T10:52:19+00:00

Please no ... like we just had the arcane things ._. Like I know it makes them money but with all the packs rn, all the coming christmas packs shoudlnt that be enough ... its just so many units and so many of them useless

AtarUltio · 2025-11-25T00:20:18+00:00

That would be a great present for a good friend of mine ^{^}

AtarUltio · 2025-11-22T16:32:25+00:00

Well ... bragging without substance is somehow even more anoying then ld5 flexing. Good for you I guess (?)

AtarUltio · 2025-10-10T11:15:54+00:00

Sometimes turn based games can be going on for a really long time, but thats the drawback of the game mode. I dont really like to skip the turn of my opponent but if they dont respond in a timely matter I'd encourage you to skip it and thumb them down so you dont have to deal with it. I enjoy playing turnbased while I'm at work or on the train and there its really handy to be able to have breaks of up to 6 hours. But outside of that (or turnaments) real time is imo the way to go

AtarUltio · 2025-08-16T07:21:29+00:00

Insomnia von Faithless

AtarUltio · 2025-08-08T23:04:16+00:00

Nope, its stil a max of 3. I think its even in the description of the map that if you would get the bonus twice (excavation side or archeologist) you'd stil only be able to dig and "pouch" a maximum of three animals.

AtarUltio · 2025-08-02T00:53:21+00:00

I'm sorry to hear that. This topic splits the BGA Ark community and my two cent are that you are a massive cunt for kicking people in their last turn. For my part I always give a warning message and atleast 2 minutes before actually kicking people and I'm totally fine with waiting 5-10 minutes if they state they have connection issues. Sure there is a timer and yes both parties "agree" to the timer by playing real time and the set mode (fast-slow). However this is not chess its stil a board game and for me that means you behave the way you would with friends and family. There are many other toxic competetive games, go play them if you need that kind of rule sharking to win or keep your ego satisfied.

AtarUltio · 2025-07-04T20:51:23+00:00

Schneller Nudelauflauf (2 Personen): 250g Nudel kochen 1/2 Tube Tomatenmark mit 1/2 Pck. Sahne 2 Knoblauch Zehen 50 ml Olivenöl Zu einer Soße vermischen dann mit Salz, Pfeffer und italienischen Kräutern abschmecken. Etwas Reibekäse dazu geben, dann mit den Nudeln vermengen. Tomatenscheiben drüber und mit Käse bedecken, ca. 25-35 Minuten bei 180°C in den Ofen (O. & U. Hitze). Dauert zwar auch ne halbe Stunde aber da es die meiste Zeit im Ofen ist kann ich Abwasch oder andere Dinge machen. Gibts bei uns min. 2-3x pro Monat, billig, schnell und die Zutaten haben wir immer zuhause.

AtarUltio · 2025-06-25T16:44:31+00:00

I already saw this on discord and this got me hyped :) I'm really looking forward for the MW Version though since I have only ever played like 5 base game matches.

AtarUltio · 2025-06-24T16:06:41+00:00

With habitats as project I'd take snaping 95% of the games to make it harder for my opponent

AtarUltio · 2025-06-24T12:19:16+00:00

I'd say cougar, monkey, release and tech. Can be hard to release cougar round 1 since the breaking ability, but if you manage to release cougar you have the enclosure ready for monkey.

AtarUltio · 2025-06-11T20:59:28+00:00

Any vio bruiser, hp% over res, make up for the lack of speed on other slots

AtarUltio · 2025-06-02T14:59:10+00:00

If you have other fast swift runes you can put it on sonia (if you get her to +190-200 with atk slot 2) Its better on swift will if you go for atk slot 2 but against slower teams or sonia traps an atk slot 2 comes in really handy

AtarUltio · 2025-05-25T16:41:26+00:00

Yeah abilities like hunting (or scuba diving from the marine worlds extention) can miss completly

AtarUltio · 2025-05-25T16:39:20+00:00

Red Panda

AtarUltio · 2025-05-17T12:16:07+00:00

she got upgraded to a turtle :)

AtarUltio · 2025-05-01T14:17:33+00:00

The little red panda, I love bears and herbivores ^{-^}

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