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Tuesday, December 1. 2009
Simplicity is the key (part 3)
Just a side note, I am glad to confirm that BrainKing's December action was successfully and automatically started by BrainKing itself and many people have already caught their bonuses (most of them are lucky enough to get the 100% (red) one). 
When the new version of BrainKing is ready, the vacation system will be properly introduced with a good description and examples of typical situations. I am sure that people will get used to it because it is really simple, transparent and, what is the most important, does not allow any kind of cheating.
- Vacation
- Problem: The vacation system is too complicated. It utilizes weekend days that can be changed occasionally and it allows people to set or clear vacation days in their calendar. We observed that these features produce too many different situations which usually lead to a confusion and sudden loss of games by timeout.
- Solution: In order to make the days off as simple as possible, it will be no longer possible to change weekend days - they will be fixed to Saturday and Sunday for everyone. Furthermore, the calendar will be removed completely (or reserved for another purpose) and BrainKing will use vacation days only if it is necessary - i.e. if the particular user's games should timeout. In other words, the automatic vacation will be the only way to spend vacation days and it would be enabled for all players of all membership levels.
When the new version of BrainKing is ready, the vacation system will be properly introduced with a good description and examples of typical situations. I am sure that people will get used to it because it is really simple, transparent and, what is the most important, does not allow any kind of cheating.
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I usually let autovacation take care of my vacations anyway. But if most are like me, when they go on vacation, they take a laptop. lol
I particularly like this part: "what is the most important, does not allow any kind of cheating."
I particularly like this part: "what is the most important, does not allow any kind of cheating."
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I'm not a fan of having sat/sun be the fixed weekend days. I like the current flexible calendar, because I am a student so my weekends are very free, and I use them to catch up on my games. I set my vacation days to thurs/fri because those are the days I am most often busiest, and then I can start to catch up friday evening and the weekend.
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If simplicity is the key, why have weekend days at all? Wouldn't it be simpler just to abolish them? Just give a few extra vacation days to eceryone and let the automatic system deal with timeouts... Much simpler...
I never liked the weekend concept on BK, especially if it refers to server side calendar - it's not simple to understand that weekends are saturday and sunday but may actually turn out to be from Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon or from Saturday morning to Monday morning, depending on what time zone you're in...
I never liked the weekend concept on BK, especially if it refers to server side calendar - it's not simple to understand that weekends are saturday and sunday but may actually turn out to be from Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon or from Saturday morning to Monday morning, depending on what time zone you're in...
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Interesting idea. How many days would you add? And there should be some limitation of maximum days used in a row, probably.
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The only point I see in using weekend days is when you play 1 or 2 day games but only get online 5 days a week (any less and the weekend days wouldn't help you much, you'd still need to spend vacation days).
If there weren't any vacation days, people would simply adapt and don't play such short timed games... so an increase in the amount of vacation days isn't really needed. People will complain from having less slack time, but since you're changing so many things they will complain anyway
But, if you must, I'd say 10 days would be sufficient (1 month of weekend days), especially to make up for the games still started with the old system, with different timeout rules and that might otherwise timeout right after the new system sets in. For the better account levels that makes up for almost 2 months of vacations! More than enough for sure...
Regarding these games from the past issue, another option might be not to add any vacation days at all and simply allow them to keep their "allows for weekend day" status, not letting them timeout on two days a week, either Saturday and Sunday, or whatever the user currenlty has selected, you decide. Not as simple, but these game will eventually end, and leave only the simple system in place - by the next version of BK most of them will be finished for sure (yeah, not all, I know, but complaints should be negligible by then)
Yet another option would be to extend the timeout of current games under 3 days that allowed for weekend days...
As to limiting the maximum number of days in a row - some people take a whole month worth of vacations - without connecting online at all... Since it will no longer be possible to schedule your own vacations, that means all the games they couldn't end up before going on vacations would timeout. Since ending a game doesn't depend solely on yourself (especially if you want to win it), that doesn't seem very fair...
If there weren't any vacation days, people would simply adapt and don't play such short timed games... so an increase in the amount of vacation days isn't really needed. People will complain from having less slack time, but since you're changing so many things they will complain anyway
But, if you must, I'd say 10 days would be sufficient (1 month of weekend days), especially to make up for the games still started with the old system, with different timeout rules and that might otherwise timeout right after the new system sets in. For the better account levels that makes up for almost 2 months of vacations! More than enough for sure...
Regarding these games from the past issue, another option might be not to add any vacation days at all and simply allow them to keep their "allows for weekend day" status, not letting them timeout on two days a week, either Saturday and Sunday, or whatever the user currenlty has selected, you decide. Not as simple, but these game will eventually end, and leave only the simple system in place - by the next version of BK most of them will be finished for sure (yeah, not all, I know, but complaints should be negligible by then)
Yet another option would be to extend the timeout of current games under 3 days that allowed for weekend days...
As to limiting the maximum number of days in a row - some people take a whole month worth of vacations - without connecting online at all... Since it will no longer be possible to schedule your own vacations, that means all the games they couldn't end up before going on vacations would timeout. Since ending a game doesn't depend solely on yourself (especially if you want to win it), that doesn't seem very fair...
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hmm... seems like the simpler solution (no weekends at all) does not mean the simplest transition between the two timeout systems after all
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