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Josh
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Well, since I'm on vacation this week and have nothing better to do than code, there's a lot of new features coming to the apps and web this month.

New Forum: if you're reading this you've noticed we've added a forum to our site. We want to encourage people to engage more with our new online community and are hoping this becomes a place where people can leave feedback, ask questions, get support if they're having problems, report bugs, and hopefully get to know other people who love Pinochle.

New Friends and Blocking Features: a couple weeks ago we added the ability to add friends if you like the people you play with online, and block users if you don't want to get matched with another user again. This week we've started adding this to the web as well. We plan on expanding these features more over time, perhaps adding messaging and better ways to match with friends. Taking this slow to ease people into the changes.

Today's Best Hand: we added a feature to highlight the player who has the highest meld points of the day, updated in real time.

Planned New Spectator Mode: I am hoping our next big feature will be the ability for spectators to watch real time games in progress. Haven't started coding this yet but I think it will be cool.

Planned Money/Chip System: we've had a lot of people ask about being able to bet with money or chips to make the online games more interesting and to give people some skin in the game so they don't drop out when they get a bad hand. There's a lot to think about in planning something like this but this is definitely something on the long-term roadmap.


   
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This App Sux
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Hello,
Couple of questions please...
1) when looking at the online profile page there is a section that shows the current active players but I noticed when I'm logged in I don't see my Avatar come up as an active player. Is that just how it was programmed to not show the IP address account that's looking at the active players or is there something wrong with my login?

2) what is the point system on each player's rating value? It looks like for the most part that it only climbs a value of rating points for when and the deducts won point value for a loss. Does it assign different values for concurrent wins or losses? In other words, do you get more than three points per win if you get a winning string going?


   
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Josh
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Hi, thanks for the questions.
I think the Online Now widget is actually listing people who are actively playing at a table or in the waiting room, but not necessarily logged in on the the website. That's probably why you don't see yourself.
The rating algorithm takes into consideration the rating of those you played against, but basically adds 3 to 7 points for a win, and subtracts 2 for a loss. Abandoned games result in a minus 5.


   
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This App Sux
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@Josh Josh, thank you very much for answering my questions. The reason I asked about the rating system is is that when I look at the win-loss records of everyone playing single deck Pinochle, it appears a very large majority of them have losing records.. some with horrible losing records. Remembering what I can from statistics class in college I find it quite the anomaly that there is such a large majority with losing records as opposed to balancing it on the other side of the median for players with winning records who seem to be absent. Maybe they played a long time ago and are no longer active or there could be a very small group of players with winning records that have abnormally high when percentages. It could account for a minority winning players balancing out the larger majority losing players, I'm not completely. So in conclusion either I'm not seeing past winning players that no longer play or there is an abnormal statistical field in the double deck pinochle area and I haven't seen since I don't play that style. Lastly I want to thank you for what you're doing with the forum regarding posts and questions.
Good luck and good games, M. O. B.


   
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Josh
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Interesting, I haven't had a chance to analyze but sounds like it could be a bug.


   
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