My thoughts for a “win con” to go for was mostly whoever could make it to Space 400 Hellapago but each Islands having their own rules to slowdown the players making it as a battle to reach the top. Additionally having it where Hellapagos would be the hardest followed by Forbidden Island followed by Kahuna followed by Kittens followed by Spirit

If this is too far from your vision, feel free to veto, I don’t mind

And it being stuff from “movements are -1 then what was rolled” or “the lower of the 2 dices is considered”

@Haba I like the idea Royalty, I just think if it were to be something, that it could be like a buff a player gets on being the Royal for the island

I agree that “reach square 400” is the most obvious victory condition, and was considering proposing it. I do think we need a victory condition early – if significant play has started, the meeples who are further away might try to stop the victory condition being enacted because they’re unlikely to reach it (although with a board game of this nature, dramatic random shifts in position are quite likely).

Maybe if it was something where “if all 4 royal spots are filled, they play an agreed game on BGA and the winner or winners keep their Royal status. And players who have their Royal status up until Nobility have a buff”

This doesn’t necessarily contradict a ‘reach square X’ victory condition - for example, the first non-Royal to reach 100 might become Old Deuteronomy, the first non-Royal to 200 becomes Kamehameha, etc.
Then the Royals would have to defend their spots somehow to keep their throne from being usurped (and those who are too far behind might have some way of catching up in this manner). I particularly like this concept so I won’t be compromising the implied victory condition, but if Raven wants 400-to-win I encourage him to veto this

I’m not sure if we can loop in Board Game Arena in an enforceable way. How do we link the players here to BGA in a way that can be recognized in the ruleset? For starters, how do you know that the Royals played a 4-player online board game on BGA?

I suppose this rule doesn’t have to be perfect from the start, but it has some flaws that will need to be addressed eventually if we want to take it forward. I could see this being exploitable as well.

That’s why I didn’t hook up victory to it, to prevent stuff like that. The final game part is just a first draft, I’m sure we can make it more robust later

@JonathanDark “For starters, how do you know that the Royals played a 4-player online board game on BGA?”:

You could just ask them. It’s possible that the players will conspire to lie about what happened, but unlikely, especially as if the game happened, all four meeples would be aware of it. This would be especially the case if there were a Fair Play-style rule requesting the Royals to be truthful about what happened in that scenario.