We may decide to utilise this and open our doors to more of our non-English-speaking friends. Every new player will be limited to playing three games at a time.
Anybody who has ever bought any credits for any purpose whatsoever, will be entitled to play five games simultaneously. Anybody who subscribes will be entitled to play up to ten games simultaneously. This is a very sore topic. I don't understand why. It's quite simple. If for whatever reason, you are unable to play your turn within a satisfactory amount of time, it is only fair to be happy for the other players to continue without you.
The only exception to this, is if for some reason the players agree to wait for a given period of time. This is a game and it is about having fun, so our policy is to support kicking and to strongly oppose bullying. So, have fun together…..
You asked for:. We have listened and we have now given you those options, but we strongly suggest that you set all of your games to have a kick limiter of minutes and that everybody kick anybody who takes too long, unless agreed previously.
If you have been bullied or harassed because of a 'kicking' issue then please inform admin immediately. There has been a bug in the system that sometimes caused the odd game to have the ratings multiplied and added to the scores.
This may have made a big difference to your TRUE rating and many people have raised this as an issue. We are going to address this by recalculating every rating point since the beginning of time on the site. This may shake up the leader-board a little bit and whilst we understand this may affect some people unfavourably, we would like to point out that the real problem was that we were reporting the wrong ratings for some time so please be understanding and thankful that we have now resolved this issue for the future.
The first free-online-yahtzee-game ratings system was devised during a dream whilst sleeping on a train. It tended to bias towards players who had played the most games, but that was not really ever seen as being a problem. However, we now feel it is time for a change to get towards something that better represents a player's real ability.
This formula will also not be published. One final note: there is only ONE way to score negative points, and that is to resign or be kicked from a game that you are not doing well in.
Firstly, I would like to say that we really appreciate ALL of the comments that we received. Without your feedback, we would not have been able to progress the community. I wanted to respond to as many of your comments as possible so that you can see how we also view these issues.
We received many comments about small bugs that were found. Thank you very much for finding these, we have now fixed everything that was reported.
Many of the players asked for game name to be put back into the game system. We really wanted to get more towards using Game IDs instead of game names, but we have decided to go with your feedback and so game names are now used again. The game name appears on the title bar and the game listing and game play screens. Yes, they do. There are a few reasons for this.
One of the major upgrades of the new system is to reduce the amount of information that is sent backwards and forwards through the internet. This actually massively speeds-up the loading times of just about everything across the whole site for everybody.
Before, when you rolled your dice, a whole section of the page was refreshed, and every time a turn was finished, the entire page was refreshed. Now, what happens, is only the numbers on the dice are refreshed. However, that means that on the first turn or two of each game, the system needs some time to load-in the dice images.
Also, because everything is now so fast, it is possible that your dice actually change before the images update. That is why the dice now flash between rolls, it is to let you know that the dice roll has completed. Yes, it can be sometimes. Also, the game ratings are now calculated at some time after the final turn. This was the solution to the bug that used to cause some games to be calculated several times over. Yes, the time taken is a factor.
However, there is a limit to how much your score can be affected by fast or slow playing time, so if you take several hours to finish a game, then you will simply receive the maximum penalty on your rating, which is unfortunate but is unavoidable.
Not everybody liked the new colours. Some people even said that the new colours were too bright and hurt their eyes. Actually, the new colour system had actually been chosen to be more in line with many commonly-used theories about social and community websites, such as always having black text on a white background, rather than the other way around. There have been many comments about how to change the customised dice maker. This is something that we may look at in the future.
For now, we have added a button that lets you remove your submission of a dice set and resubmit it, if you notice an error before an admin approves it. There are simply too many changes that need to be made to the data structures and to just about every other part of the site.
Well, it's not really possible. No, triple and painted could not have been added to the existing site just like that. To give you a metaphor…it would be like trying to build a swimming pool in a tenth-floor apartment that is only four feet cubed in capacity.
Inbound messages are now checked once per minute on every screen of the website, and a notification appears on-screen when there are messages in the inbox, directly beneath the top menu. Some people have the feeling that it's a bit slow, but I can assure you that it is much faster than the old system as much less data is being sent.
It's impossible that this function is slower. If the whole system ends up being slower then that is something that we will move very quickly to address. It 'should be' that when the player profile pop-up comes up, all you have to do is to slowly move the mouse cursor out of that pop-up box and it should go away.
If that does not happen, please let us know and we can find another way of preventing this from happening. One of the main aims of the new design was to make it easier to get into games and to prevent games from being abandoned and left unattended. One way to do that is to only allow one game creation at a time, especially to new players. I believe that the advantages will outweigh the disadvantages.
Actually, you know what? My own personal feeling is that if you can't know when it is your turn by yourself, then you are playing too many games. However, since so many of you want this feature, I will add it back in at some point. They do disappear yes, but then they return - the reason for this is to illustrate that the turn has finished loading, so that a player doesn't accidentally click 'roll dice' too soon and miss a turn.
For now, the alternative rule sets are not enforced by the system. We have an issue with this. So many players claim to have invented a new set of rules and we are actually not interested in who designs the games, only that the players can play them. Some players actually campaigned to prevent us from receiving the various rule-sets for their own personal reasons, so that's really up to you. Musical Dice. Dice Roller. Score Sheets.
Digital Boards. Spread Number. Maxi Yatzy. Train Dominoes. Domino Pyramid. It is really up to the player to make the right choices at the right times to maximise his or her chance of either scoring as many points as possible or of winning the game. And even then, there is a difference between strategies.
The types of decisions made to give yourself the chance of the highest possible score for a single game are very different to the kinds of decisions you will make to try to get the best average score. I remember playing a tournament game where I was losing by over one hundred points with two turns left, but I had yahtzee and high straight open.
With a low straight already on the table, I ignored it and went for a yahtzee as it was my only hope to win the game. A ridiculous decision, but I did manage to score two yahtzees, points and won the game! So, for me, yahtzee is a game of luck management and decision-making. Of course, there are times when the dice decide you will lose the game and those times can be very frustrating and that's when it is good to enjoy chatting with your opponents!
Over the years so many people have formed strong friendships through our website. There have been cases of people here at freethedice. I am very happy that a simple games site can bring people together sometimes.
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