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Update 9/5/13

Postby rdsrds2120 on Thu Sep 05, 2013 7:28 pm

9/5/13

Good morning, evening, day, or afternoon! The bigWham and blakebowling have some more updates that they've rolled out, and here they are! Nothing too big this week, but it certainly lays the groundwork out for future updates (especially the score recording).

Updates

  • No Fortification Games
  • We will now start recording scores for players at the start and end of a game. This is a partial implemention of Archiving Ranks! Hopefully, this will allow for future updates involving scores, and perhaps more Add-Ons and tools for any developers who are interested in using this feature.
  • Multiple Game Creation: This is currently limited to 5 at a time, but upon further field testing, we may be willing to expand it!
  • We've fixed the "Join Game" links bug for team games and speed games that came with our last update
  • Some back-end tools for Clan Administration!


Policy Changes

From now on, we will be accepting appeals from Permabanned players. This can be accomplished through an E-Ticket. We believe that giving people a second chance from the change in community and rules of old is only fair! We hope that this will allow members who have learned from their mistakes be able to come back and support a Community they love and to make it even more lively!

Thanks folks! That's all we have for this week. Until next time,

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Re: Update 9/5/13

Postby blakebowling on Thu Sep 05, 2013 8:56 pm

All of these are now live. Should you discover any bugs, please report them in the bug reports forum, or via eticket.
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Re: Update 9/5/13

Postby Lindax on Thu Sep 05, 2013 9:05 pm

From now on, we will be accepting appeals from Permabanned players.


Shit, does that mean that Max may be back?

We believe that Permabanned players were permabanned for good reasons....

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Re: Update 9/5/13

Postby VicFontaine on Thu Sep 05, 2013 9:09 pm

I don't remember "Max." Who's that again?

And the updates seem like great ideas. Thank you!
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Re: Update 9/5/13

Postby Gilligan on Thu Sep 05, 2013 9:11 pm

VicFontaine wrote:I don't remember "Max." Who's that again?

And the updates seem like great ideas. Thank you!


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Re: Update 9/5/13

Postby patrickaa317 on Thu Sep 05, 2013 9:15 pm

Lindax wrote:
From now on, we will be accepting appeals from Permabanned players.


Shit, does that mean that Max may be back?

We believe that Permabanned players were permabanned for good reasons....

Lx


Also in before the conspiracy around El Jefe and GLG is enhanced with this. It really is the only way GLG could come back, right? :o

Not a subscriber to that but interested to see it start being discussed.
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Re: Update 9/5/13

Postby Sprechen on Thu Sep 05, 2013 9:45 pm

I'd like to be able to create games with minimum rank requirements. For example, limiting those who can join a game to two ranks below mine and above. This works really well on a chess site I use.
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Re: Update 9/5/13

Postby VicFontaine on Thu Sep 05, 2013 9:48 pm

Sprechen wrote:I'd like to be able to create games with minimum rank requirements. For example, limiting those who can join a game to two ranks below mine and above. This works really well on a chess site I use.


You can. It's called, "private games." :lol:

But I get what you're saying. It would certainly save us from foeing cooks, right?
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Re: Update 9/5/13

Postby Gilligan on Thu Sep 05, 2013 9:49 pm

VicFontaine wrote:
Sprechen wrote:I'd like to be able to create games with minimum rank requirements. For example, limiting those who can join a game to two ranks below mine and above. This works really well on a chess site I use.


You can. It's called, "private games." :lol:

But I get what you're saying. It would certainly save us from foeing cooks, right?


Private games can be a pain to fill sometimes...I would definitely use a feature that let me set a minimum for public games. It would make getting the teammate medal easier, too.
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Re: Update 9/5/13

Postby bigWham on Thu Sep 05, 2013 10:13 pm

Sprechen wrote:I'd like to be able to create games with minimum rank requirements. For example, limiting those who can join a game to two ranks below mine and above. This works really well on a chess site I use.


pop on over to the Suggestions forum with your suggestions!

i think that one has been put forward many times but they'll let you know
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Re: Update 9/5/13

Postby spiesr on Thu Sep 05, 2013 10:23 pm

bigWham wrote:
Sprechen wrote:I'd like to be able to create games with minimum rank requirements. For example, limiting those who can join a game to two ranks below mine and above. This works really well on a chess site I use.
pop on over to the Suggestions forum with your suggestions!

i think that one has been put forward many times but they'll let you know
Here you go.
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Re: Update 9/5/13

Postby Denise on Thu Sep 05, 2013 10:28 pm

I really like seeing my new score when I win a game! I imagine though I won't be as excited about it when I lose one, but maybe that won't happen. 8-)

Nice updates! =D>
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Re: Update 9/5/13

Postby VicFontaine on Thu Sep 05, 2013 10:32 pm

Denise wrote:I imagine though I won't be as excited about it when I lose one, but maybe that won't happen. 8-)

Nice updates! =D>


...ANY time...
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Re: Update 9/5/13

Postby -=- Tanarri -=- on Thu Sep 05, 2013 11:07 pm

I have to say, updates 6 days apart from one another is very encouraging for the future of this site. Thanks for the updates bigWham and I hope you keep them coming :)
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Re: Update 9/5/13

Postby Sprechen on Thu Sep 05, 2013 11:13 pm

Thx All

I would also like to see a vacation flag option included, especially for premium membership. I'm sure we've all lost a ton of games due to vacay.
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Re: Update 9/5/13

Postby Heraklius on Fri Sep 06, 2013 1:09 am

Thank you for allowing permabanned players to appeal! me and my friend were permabanned but we love this game so much! I bought a membership but he couldn't so I'm playing alone :( I hope he gets unbanned
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Re: Update 9/5/13

Postby D4 Damager on Fri Sep 06, 2013 3:00 am

Multiple game creation is an excellent addition. Thanks!
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Re: Update 9/5/13

Postby alster on Fri Sep 06, 2013 3:00 am

When searching/joining games, the game list pages still looks horrible. Very drawn out list of players in each game making it difficult to get a good overview. Something in these updates have caused it.
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Re: Update 9/5/13

Postby OliverFA on Fri Sep 06, 2013 3:12 am

Congratulations on the "No fortifications" option. It's always very positive to have more options to test our strategic mind in different settings.

And IMHO giving a second chance to community members is a very generous move, and one that will no doubt have positive consequences.
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Re: Update 9/5/13

Postby OliverFA on Fri Sep 06, 2013 3:15 am

bigWham wrote:
Sprechen wrote:I'd like to be able to create games with minimum rank requirements. For example, limiting those who can join a game to two ranks below mine and above. This works really well on a chess site I use.


pop on over to the Suggestions forum with your suggestions!

i think that one has been put forward many times but they'll let you know


Unfortunatelly the suggestions forum is not very active right now. I have submitted a couple of ideas lately and got not much answer, mainly from people who said "We don't like your suggestion because it's different to how we are playing now and would force us to change our way of thinking".
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Re: Update 9/5/13

Postby Bruceswar on Fri Sep 06, 2013 3:52 am

Lindax wrote:
From now on, we will be accepting appeals from Permabanned players.


Shit, does that mean that Max may be back?

We believe that Permabanned players were permabanned for good reasons....

Lx



Dang for a second I thought you meant Maxatstuy
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Re: Update 9/5/13

Postby greenoaks on Fri Sep 06, 2013 3:56 am

OliverFA wrote:
bigWham wrote:
Sprechen wrote:I'd like to be able to create games with minimum rank requirements. For example, limiting those who can join a game to two ranks below mine and above. This works really well on a chess site I use.


pop on over to the Suggestions forum with your suggestions!

i think that one has been put forward many times but they'll let you know


Unfortunatelly the suggestions forum is not very active right now. I have submitted a couple of ideas lately and got not much answer, mainly from people who said "We don't like your suggestion because it's different to how we are playing now and would force us to change our way of thinking".

have you got links to those because all i've seen is people point out the flaws with your suggestions.
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Re: Update 9/5/13

Postby betiko on Fri Sep 06, 2013 4:28 am

greenoaks wrote:
OliverFA wrote:
bigWham wrote:
Sprechen wrote:I'd like to be able to create games with minimum rank requirements. For example, limiting those who can join a game to two ranks below mine and above. This works really well on a chess site I use.


pop on over to the Suggestions forum with your suggestions!

i think that one has been put forward many times but they'll let you know


Unfortunatelly the suggestions forum is not very active right now. I have submitted a couple of ideas lately and got not much answer, mainly from people who said "We don't like your suggestion because it's different to how we are playing now and would force us to change our way of thinking".

have you got links to those because all i've seen is people point out the flaws with your suggestions.


Lol exactly.
Oliver, this is not someting personal and you seem to see it as such. Your suggestion is an open gate for new types of cheating and abuse (survivor mode). Stop inventing stuff up. I love all novelties and I play all type of games, probably like most people completely against your idea. Most people are against it because of all its flaws, deal with it and stop making stuff up.

Otherwise, bigwham, the minimum\max rank thing has been proposed about a million times. The suggestion moderators just archive it as rejected, with no discution possible. This was lack's vision of the site. It is purely rejected each time because the previous admin was against it. Since this is such a popular request, we would be interested to have your personal opinion on the matter. Is this something that could be reconsidered to satisfy a large part of the community?
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Re: Update 9/5/13

Postby benga on Fri Sep 06, 2013 4:37 am

Can invitations be done so we add people in bulk rather then 1 by 1?

Would be much easier to copy paste 8 players then clicking 8 times.

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