PurposeGames Tag: member

geodude on "Member of the Month"

geodude — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:01:21 +0000

Ya Thanks David :)

Huggie18 on "Member of the Month"

Huggie18 — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:04:26 +0000

I've noticed that. But David will change it. He is clever like that.

geodude on "Member of the Month"

geodude — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:46:51 +0000

David on "Member of the Month"

David — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:20:54 +0000

It's because they got the same amount of nods during last month and thus is sharing the honor.

I've been meaning to fix it. Will do in due time.

geodude on "Member of the Month"

geodude — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:20:50 +0000

Has anyone else noticed that the Member of the Month changes even when it's not a new month?

adam on "Dal Member of the Month"

adam — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:49:44 +0000

Congratulations to the best game creator on purpose games... very well deserved. Go Dal!

BoboLo on "Dal Member of the Month"

BoboLo — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:46:50 +0000

Yes, really well done - congrats indeed!

tassos on "Dal Member of the Month"

tassos — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:29:24 +0000

Congratulations from me too Dal!
Each game of your new series could be a complete hourly lesson for some school degrees!

Dal on "Dal Member of the Month"

Dal — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:25:40 +0000

Without all of the great people here and the friends I have made, I wouldn't keep coming back!

Huggie18 on "Dal Member of the Month"

Huggie18 — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:50:43 +0000

Great 1 m8. Keep creating. Well done!

tickman on "Dal Member of the Month"

tickman — Fri, 02 May 2008 05:29:19 +0000

May I join (if belatedly) in the congrats to a good friend, and excellent PGer, Dal.

Well earned, well deserved!

RonaldDerGrosse on "Dal Member of the Month"

RonaldDerGrosse — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:13:24 +0000

Congratulations Dal!
Your games are always top notch and have great layouts.

equestenebrarum on "Dal Member of the Month"

equestenebrarum — Thu, 01 May 2008 19:13:19 +0000

Hi Dal, nice to see you as MotM! You're one of the best game creators here at Purposegames. All your games are very good in terms of content, design and especially in layout, too. And with your "Flag, Capital and Country" series you managed to create games that will be evergreen classics, I'm sure. Congratulations!

Dal on "Dal Member of the Month"

Dal — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:27:16 +0000

Thank you very much, its an honor to be member of the month.

I am slowly running out of countries for my flag-capital-country series. I have to come up with some new ideas soon!

niklas on "Dal Member of the Month"

niklas — Thu, 01 May 2008 11:50:34 +0000

Congratulation Dal!
Your flag-country-capital-games probably helped. Well done!

Mogadishu on "Dal Member of the Month"

Mogadishu — Thu, 01 May 2008 08:04:51 +0000

Congrats Dal for Member of the Month of May 2008!

famisamis on "Player page and rating updated"

famisamis — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 09:19:50 +0000

Totally cool! Way to go, David!

Thank you!

Thomsiboms on "Player page and rating updated"

Thomsiboms — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 19:38:47 +0000

Thanks, David!

David on "Player page and rating updated"

David — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:22:23 +0000

The list of played games and your placement in the games is now available again.

I had to build a cache mechanism for it, in order not to overload the server. As with the rating system, the challenge is seldom the math or the algorithm per se, as much as getting it to work for some 200,000 requests per day.

Anyways, you can reach the game list from your profile. Click the "Different games" stat link to get to the details. Note that the stats there is cached for a couple of hours before flushed, to not risk overloading the server.

I'm currently looking into a way to consider the placement of a player, for the rating system. Let me thank all of you in this thread for pitching in with very good ideas. Thanks.

Thomsiboms on "Player page and rating updated"

Thomsiboms — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 04:42:36 +0000

Is it perhaps possible, if it's not too much trouble, to temporarily show the old game stats in the my profile view, even though they only show the first 40? I'd like to keep track of my played games.
Thanks, Thom.

Angela0726 on "Player page and rating updated"

Angela0726 — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 02:43:59 +0000

I guess you all know where I stand, but it would be nice to incorporate how you place. We work really hard to get those top 1-3 spots, and it would be nice to get a little extra for that. Anyone can memorize the answers and have a crappy time...
Anyway, thanks again for the site David.
(And I'm sorry if this contradicts anything previously posted...I didn't read the entire thread thoroughly)

MisterSamsonite on "Player page and rating updated"

MisterSamsonite — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 06:07:31 +0000

David,

Yeah, after thinking about the GrandMaster thing, I guess the absolute points would work, as long as we can see how many points we have. In the future, having 500 grand masters isn't a bad thing as long as you can actually see the underlying points. There'll just be some grandmasters with 40,000 points and some with 100,000, which is great.

David on "Player page and rating updated"

David — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 00:25:18 +0000

First of all, thanks for the feedback.

Well, basically I agree with what's been said, starting with Doffa/Niklas et al.

I still believe in a point based system, though it should of course consider relative placement as well, as so many of you have noticed and pointed out.

I'm not that keen on the suggestion of a relative target cap on what constitutes the Grand Master level, then depending on the number of games in a category. That may be a bit of a problem right now but is soon a thing of the past as more and more games gets created for the various categories.

So, in essence, I'll see about adding placement as a parameter for calculating the rating.

MisterSamsonite on "Player page and rating updated"

MisterSamsonite — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 07:54:27 +0000

It seems that the population here is split between those that are just here to learn and increase their knowledge, and those that are here to compete.

Why not satisfy both with a "Knowledge Rating", which I think the current system works nearly perfectly for, and a "Speed Rating" or "Competitive Rating" or such that's more along the lines of Doffa's formula?

Also, I like your formula (for knowledge rating) to compute the points, but the criterion for assigning a titled rank (Grand master, etc) should maybe be based on the player's percentage of the total number of possible points, not a fixed point value. As of now, you can't achieve Grand Master in certain categories because there aren't enough games, and in a year, you'll be able to achieve it while playing half the games. Using a ratio (95% for Grand Master maybe) would keep the title meaningful.

Is there a plan in the works to make the Member page sortable by ranking (hopefully by Knowledge Rating and Speed Rating some day :) ) in addition to the alphabetical listing now?

Finally, is there a way you can show us our total number of points? It would be nice to know how close we are to the next rank.

Thanks again, David!

colek on "Player page and rating updated"

colek — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:40:10 +0000

I agree with last idea of Doffa, he has thought up perfect scoring. If David was able to perform it, it would be great. Otherwise i like this new change, good job David.

niklas on "Player page and rating updated"

niklas — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:21:28 +0000

Maybe the factor for 100% could be higher than 1.00 in order to premier the learning part of the game.

Doffa on "Player page and rating updated"

Doffa — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 01:52:39 +0000

And since Log(0) is not possible to calculate, the second term should probably be rewritten by +2 so that the lowest second term is Log(1)=1. New formula would be

Log(Number of people played game)*Log((number of people played game)-(position)+2))*10*(0-1 - from percentage of game)

Doffa on "Player page and rating updated"

Doffa — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 01:49:09 +0000

Added to my thoughts on new scoring above, it should also probably be multiplied by the per centage scored in the game, i.e. multiplied by a number 0-1 (0=0%,1=100%)

Thomsiboms on "Player page and rating updated"

Thomsiboms — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:59:19 +0000

Maths is not my forte but i agree that a game that is played 14000 times by 500 different people should be rewarded differently than a game that is played 500 times by 20 people.
Perhaps you can attribute some kind of 'special status' to games that are played by more than, say 200 players, and have been played more than, say 3000, or 5000 (or some other number) times or so. And then create a hall of fame for 'most number one spots' or 'best mean position' in those games. ;-)
And i want a stat with 'most games played overall' ;-).
As the statistics per game are temporarily disabled, i don't have an opinion on that yet.
Keep the good work up, David, we enjoy playing :)

niklas on "Player page and rating updated"

niklas — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:22:21 +0000

Maybe I focused to much on the game part and not on the learning part. But I think Doffa is on to something when you base the points on the number of people you have "beaten".