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by **cooldeals** on Thu Jul 19, 2012 11:34 am

I was able to get into Whac-A-Mod Speed games right after I started. Otherwise, I wouldn't be Premium.

by **nicestash** on Sat Jul 28, 2012 9:58 am

Can we put this to a vote? It seems to have widespread support

by **agentcom** on Sat Jul 28, 2012 10:31 pm

To be honest, I'm not sure if a vote is appropriate in this situation. This suggestion seems like something that should be left up the the owner of the website as it seems to be a suggestion about how to best make the site money and hook users. Other suggestions that get voted on are more about current players and what their preferences are for the site. I don't see how much value anyone would get out of seeing voting results here.

by **nicestash** on Sat Aug 04, 2012 7:11 pm

How do we get lack to look at this?

by **Pixar** on Sat Aug 04, 2012 7:51 pm

+1 nice job CD thats my boy

by **agentcom** on Tue Aug 07, 2012 1:26 am

nicestash wrote:How do we get lack to look at this?

Out of all the suggestions that get posted, a few move to Sticky, which is where this one is at right now. If there continues to be a lot of support, or well, for whatever reason, it will get moved to Submitted. At that point, it is up to Lack and Lack alone whether to implement it.

OK, there's a lot of the above that is oversimplification, but overall that's how it works. I'm currently working on some organization of older suggestions, but I'd be happy to move this to Submitted when I get to this one. With the caveat that I'm a volunteer and only have a limited amount of time to work on the forum, I don't mind at all if anyone calls me out on this statement in a couple months, if I haven't done so or at least explained why not. As I've said before, I think that this suggestion is great for the site and increases our competitiveness with similar sites. So I have no problem trying to find out if/when/why this will/won't happen.

by **IditarodGuy** on Fri Aug 24, 2012 11:33 am

cooldeals wrote:
Hornet95 wrote:Quick point of information: Give freemies access to 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5-minute classic
-OR- 5 minute only?

I'd be in favor of 5-minute only. 1, 2, 3 and 4 gives away too much.

Also, I wonder if there would be a way to limit it on freemiums to 10, 25, 50, or 100 speed games per month?

To be honest, I don't think 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 makes a difference in whether people will pay or not. I'd actually say only 3-5 because 1-2 minute turn times are actually a disadvantage to someone new to the site. (I've added this info into my OP. Thanks for your comment).

Limiting freemiums on total speed games, might not be a bad idea, but I don't think it should be too restrictive. I can go to other sites and get the same experience I am describing here for free with no limit on games played. People on that site pay for even more minute feature upgrades than playing speed on all the amazing maps on CC.

Disable Newbies to play speed games just like other options are disabled.

by **cryinlion** on Fri Aug 24, 2012 2:46 pm

should we alllow premium members play with the freemiums in speed games?
i think not cuz some players may farm them
even though i would like to play with my freemium friends in speed game instead of just rts

by **thehippo8** on Sun Aug 26, 2012 2:14 am

I see that this thread has gone quiet. Not sure what else there is to say but I support the idea wholeheartedly.

by **MegaProphet** on Sun Aug 26, 2012 8:23 pm

cryinlion wrote:should we alllow premium members play with the freemiums in speed games?
i think not cuz some players may farm them
even though i would like to play with my freemium friends in speed game instead of just rts

Just because someone is premium does not mean they're better than a freemium player. Also one of the merits of this suggestion is it prevents farming because there is less of a learning curve playing the Classic map with standard settings.

by **natty dread** on Mon Aug 27, 2012 12:31 am

cryinlion wrote:should we alllow premium members play with the freemiums in speed games?
i think not cuz some players may farm them
even though i would like to play with my freemium friends in speed game instead of just rts

Oh wow, yet another idiotic "BUT THEY GET FARMED" argument. Hasn't this site seen enough crappy, idiotic rules because of so-called "farming"?

USA has "war on terrorism", CC has "war on farming".

by **cooldeals** on Fri Sep 07, 2012 11:40 am

I think farming wouldn't be a big issue. These are basic games on classic with fixed settings and 6 people (or whatever the owner wants to allow). Anyway, it's not an ideal set up for farming. At worst they could learn better strategy from a more experience player, but I guarantee there will be lots of bonus monkeys and suiciders among the newbies, so I wouldn't try to farm there. I'd say you want to let everyone join so that there are active games.

The whole goal is to give users a good experience, if only newbies can play and they can't fill a game it's not a good experience. I played on pogo for a long time before I came here and played more on there when I joined here. I almost didn't stay with CC simply because my initial drive that brought me to the site was to play NOW. I think after you get that out of your system you begin to like casual games more, but this will get new players in the door and get them to stay long enough to appreciate how awesome CC is.

by **cooldeals** on Fri Sep 07, 2012 11:42 am

agentcom wrote:
nicestash wrote:How do we get lack to look at this?

Out of all the suggestions that get posted, a few move to Sticky, which is where this one is at right now. If there continues to be a lot of support, or well, for whatever reason, it will get moved to Submitted. At that point, it is up to Lack and Lack alone whether to implement it.

OK, there's a lot of the above that is oversimplification, but overall that's how it works. I'm currently working on some organization of older suggestions, but I'd be happy to move this to Submitted when I get to this one. With the caveat that I'm a volunteer and only have a limited amount of time to work on the forum, I don't mind at all if anyone calls me out on this statement in a couple months, if I haven't done so or at least explained why not. As I've said before, I think that this suggestion is great for the site and increases our competitiveness with similar sites. So I have no problem trying to find out if/when/why this will/won't happen.

How do we get enough support to get this to "Submitted" can we start a poll of who supports it? I think the little details that people talk about would be decided by the owner anyway since this is just a suggestion to him.

by **agentcom** on Sat Sep 08, 2012 2:18 am

I don't know how else to say this, but I think that this would be good for the site. There are a lot of suggestions out there that would be "cool" to implement. And they would positively benefit the existing players. But I think this suggestion would actually help us get new users.

OK, personal sentiment over ... I see a lot of people who feel the same way, and I don't see many detractors. Let's move this to SUBMITTED.

Anyone wanna weigh in on what the settings for these games should be?

by **darth emperor** on Sat Sep 08, 2012 2:52 am

agentcom wrote:Anyone wanna weigh in on what the settings for these games should be?

I would say CC default, the first settings you get when you put start a game. (With round limit) and I think is the best idea, if we make it no spoils and the game gets too long, people will get bored, unless if we do that at Round 10 (and then after 5 rounds) ask people if they want to convert the game in casual (all remaining players should accept), like that with this "ads" people will get to know better the 24h games