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Re: Finally Some News: The Beginning

Postby bedub1 on Wed Feb 06, 2013 4:50 pm

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Re: Finally Some News: The Beginning

Postby IcePack on Wed Feb 06, 2013 5:24 pm

bedub1 wrote:
DoomYoshi wrote:The Ads shouldn't be there for New Recruits, based on lostatlimbo's comments.

That's a great point. Until you play/finish your 4 or 10 games or something I think the site should remain add-free.


Step 1: Extend "news recruit status" to 25 games to get used to site features, spoils, large variety of maps.

Step 2: No ads until you leave NR status
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Re: Finally Some News: The Beginning

Postby Gilligan on Wed Feb 06, 2013 6:11 pm

sdh wrote:smart updates which will probably increase premium members. will the medal cap not be lifted for general achievement and general contribution medals? and the ads aren't annoying at all, just ignore them!


No one is particularly close to 30 on those medals. Iron Maid has 19 GA, and Dako has 20 GC. I'm sure once we get into a position where it needs to be raised, it can.
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Re: Finally Some News: The Beginning

Postby Butters1919 on Wed Feb 06, 2013 6:20 pm

bedub1 wrote:That's a great point. Until you play/finish your 4 or 10 games or something I think the site should remain add-free.


I quite agree. A smart move I'm sure. Make the site most inviting to NR's. Although there should be a warning stating that once you've left your NR status, there will be (hopefully) non-invasive advertising for those that maintain a free membership.
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Re: Finally Some News: The Beginning

Postby rdsrds2120 on Wed Feb 06, 2013 6:29 pm

ender516 wrote:It looks like the Medal Stats page will need an update to indicate that the next achievement after "Gold Achieved". Also the Medals page in the forum might need a tweak as well.


This will happen when the new medals go live!

As for the claim of them being text ads:
When reading our programmer's synopsis, I misread his statement as textual ads when he had typed contextual ads. Editing the OP now.

I'll look at some of the other suggestions in this thread as well (such as making New Recruits not have ads). I'll see what boss man has to say about it :)

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Re: Finally Some News: The Beginning

Postby tdans on Wed Feb 06, 2013 8:51 pm

How many speed games can freemiums play?
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Re: Finally Some News: The Beginning

Postby rdsrds2120 on Wed Feb 06, 2013 9:25 pm

tdans wrote:How many speed games can freemiums play?


4 per month.

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Re: Finally Some News: The Beginning

Postby MegaProphet on Wed Feb 06, 2013 9:42 pm

rdsrds2120 wrote:
tdans wrote:How many speed games can freemiums play?


4 per month.

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Will freemiums be able to play speed games on all maps? Or just on the classic map like in he suggestion?
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Re: Finally Some News: The Beginning

Postby rdsrds2120 on Wed Feb 06, 2013 9:59 pm

Just Classic! There has been a bug reported where there was no settings limits on the speed games that are joined (compared to one that are created).

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Re: Finally Some News: The Beginning

Postby Army of GOD on Thu Feb 07, 2013 1:02 am

do we have 12 player games yet?
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Re: Finally Some News: The Beginning

Postby betiko on Thu Feb 07, 2013 2:12 am

Army of GOD wrote:do we have 12 player games yet?


do you still even play games on this site to care about it?
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Re: Finally Some News: The Beginning

Postby rdsrds2120 on Thu Feb 07, 2013 11:02 am

The suggestion to block ads for New Recruits and to raise their cap to 10 based off of this thread have not only been approved, but are being fast-tracked ;). Good ideas guys, thanks!

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Re: Finally Some News: The Beginning

Postby IditarodGuy on Thu Feb 07, 2013 11:15 am

Butters1919 wrote:
bedub1 wrote:That's a great point. Until you play/finish your 4 or 10 games or something I think the site should remain add-free.


I quite agree. A smart move I'm sure. Make the site most inviting to NR's. Although there should be a warning stating that once you've left your NR status, there will be (hopefully) non-invasive advertising for those that maintain a free membership.


I semi-agree with these ideas, after 10 games, you are just getting comfortable with CC, and if a warning is mentioned about ads, but not shown, it may cause people to leave because they don't want ads, and they don't know how bad they will really be. Maybe for NRs there should be a advertisement for CC in that spot until they have finished the games, then it is not as much of a stun to place the ads on. Just brainstorming...

Also I don't like the colors on the new medals, try like red and black, orange and black or purple and green.

Over and out... IditarodGuy

P.S. When I first joined, you guys were an answer to prayers, with RISK being my all time favorite game, but no one to play with, this was a perfect solution, I had spent hours of my time searching for an online RISK game but to no avail. Thanks CC.
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Re: Finally Some News: The Beginning

Postby benga on Thu Feb 07, 2013 11:36 am

Is it possible to announce all new editions before making the updates?

First you changed team round limit, now you have changed invite system.

Can we PLEASE get some heads-up?
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Re: Finally Some News: The Beginning

Postby rdsrds2120 on Thu Feb 07, 2013 11:51 am

benga wrote:Is it possible to announce all new editions before making the updates?

First you changed team round limit, now you have changed invite system.

Can we PLEASE get some heads-up?


The invite system has not changed. If you're referring to the error with inviting to tournament games and not seeing them when they're filled , that is being worked on asap.

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Re: Finally Some News: The Beginning

Postby MegaProphet on Thu Feb 07, 2013 3:49 pm

rdsrds2120 wrote:The suggestion to block ads for New Recruits and to raise their cap to 10 based off of this thread have not only been approved, but are being fast-tracked ;). Good ideas guys, thanks!

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Awesome! I think the administrators listening and interacting with the community is really going to do wonders for the site and bring in new members
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Re: Finally Some News: The Beginning

Postby Gillipig on Thu Feb 07, 2013 3:57 pm

betiko wrote:
Army of GOD wrote:do we have 12 player games yet?


do you still even play games on this site to care about it?

He still plays them, he just don't win any :lol:
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Re: Finally Some News: The Beginning

Postby greenoaks on Thu Feb 07, 2013 4:07 pm

rdsrds2120 wrote:
benga wrote:Is it possible to announce all new editions before making the updates?

First you changed team round limit, now you have changed invite system.

Can we PLEASE get some heads-up?


The invite system has not changed. If you're referring to the error with inviting to tournament games and not seeing them when they're filled , that is being worked on asap.

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why would you change it, it worked fine.

how am i supposed to search on freemiums to see if they have any spare slots if i can't see games they have joined but are fully invited.
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Re: Finally Some News: The Beginning

Postby rdsrds2120 on Thu Feb 07, 2013 5:13 pm

greenoaks wrote:
rdsrds2120 wrote:
benga wrote:Is it possible to announce all new editions before making the updates?

First you changed team round limit, now you have changed invite system.

Can we PLEASE get some heads-up?


The invite system has not changed. If you're referring to the error with inviting to tournament games and not seeing them when they're filled , that is being worked on asap.

BMO

why would you change it, it worked fine.

how am i supposed to search on freemiums to see if they have any spare slots if i can't see games they have joined but are fully invited.


This will be an optional feature once it's updated.

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Re: Finally Some News: The Beginning

Postby betiko on Thu Feb 07, 2013 5:53 pm

IditarodGuy wrote:
Butters1919 wrote:
bedub1 wrote:That's a great point. Until you play/finish your 4 or 10 games or something I think the site should remain add-free.


I quite agree. A smart move I'm sure. Make the site most inviting to NR's. Although there should be a warning stating that once you've left your NR status, there will be (hopefully) non-invasive advertising for those that maintain a free membership.


I semi-agree with these ideas, after 10 games, you are just getting comfortable with CC, and if a warning is mentioned about ads, but not shown, it may cause people to leave because they don't want ads, and they don't know how bad they will really be. Maybe for NRs there should be a advertisement for CC in that spot until they have finished the games, then it is not as much of a stun to place the ads on. Just brainstorming...

Also I don't like the colors on the new medals, try like red and black, orange and black or purple and green.

Over and out... IditarodGuy

P.S. When I first joined, you guys were an answer to prayers, with RISK being my all time favorite game, but no one to play with, this was a perfect solution, I had spent hours of my time searching for an online RISK game but to no avail. Thanks CC.


:sick: those colours would totally represent the colour of a diamond... :sick:

I personally think the small problem with those colours is that they remind me a bit of the silver/bronze ones...
bronze contain green silver and white; silver contain blue silver and white; gold contain yellow red green and white. these new ones have silver white and teal. but bah, don't think it's worth changing them they look diamondish enough to me!
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Re: Finally Some News: The Beginning

Postby rdsrds2120 on Thu Feb 07, 2013 5:54 pm

That's totally what we were going for -- the ultimate cap -- the sum of all of your past medals and more :ugeek:

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Re: Finally Some News: The Beginning

Postby DoomYoshi on Thu Feb 07, 2013 6:41 pm

Wow. My suggestion got posted, improved, and approved in like a day. Totally rad.
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Re: Finally Some News: The Beginning

Postby Jippd on Fri Feb 08, 2013 3:40 am

I can confirm that freemiums can join speeders that are not classic. It happened to me twice yesterday
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Re: Finally Some News: The Beginning

Postby rdsrds2120 on Fri Feb 08, 2013 11:06 am

Jippd wrote:I can confirm that freemiums can join speeders that are not classic. It happened to me twice yesterday


:-$ They can currently join them, but not start them. Should be 'fixed' soon.

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Re: Finally Some News: The Beginning

Postby bigg chief on Fri Feb 08, 2013 12:23 pm

whats the plan to keep disgruntled old timers around,lots for new recruits,not much for us older players who have hung around thru the changes (use that term lightly)
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