Forum posting now considers overall completed games before allowing posting.

Ranked games played are now stored, and this number is used to calculate the newbie reduction (before friendlies would count as well here). For newbies this number is shown on their profile. This number was not stored before, so at this point your ranked games have been calculated as the total games you've played.

The minimum score change when playing a newbie is now 10% (from 20%) to protect ranks further. In addition, it now uses an exponential evaluation to find this value, staying at 10% for a while and rising to 100% sharply as user approaches the newbie period.



Playing around with a newbie versus an 800 ranked player the newbie will overtake the ranked player on the 22nd consecutive win, and will overtake at about 786 points, therefore it is quite safe to presume that a user will be approaching their true rank at around 44 games. Given this, and that friendlies no longer count towards newbie ranked, I have reduced newbie period to 50 games.

There is also a link to withdraw from a tournament from the tournament page, forum web page have been reduced in size (quicker loading), and edit period without comment increased to 3 minutes.

wow - I like this

Also the full calculation on newbie is shown on help:
http://www.funkypool.com/help#rankings

Means i'm not a newbie at Killer, woop woop

removing from tournies was my idea.....it means once you see I have entered the tournie you may as well withdraw

fat chance of that, i'd rather watch you cry

Good updates nick sounds like a good plan if you ask me.

Good update nick!!

Al and matt love you 2 having some banter lol

shame make you both cry when i knock you out =P

Is it just me or is the chat box always at 6 when you log in? Didnt it used to remember what you had it set to.

It says 100 games for a user to lose newbie status. That needs changing

damien always the joker

Ahem!!! Don't insult me

Great update Nick, Thanks.

It'd be a privilege if people thought that you was me, for you, so don't go there

Yeah great updates!

actually quite good, wouldnt mind it telling you number of ranked games even after newbie as it would be quite interesting to see how many people play ranked games and who plays friendlies.

must admit im a friendly person.

Edited at 22:06 Thu 18/11/10 (GMT)

Unfortunately the historical data for that stat is unavailable (hence why previous games were all marked as ranked games).

u now have to
click on the actual link to
a thread in a forum now not just anywhere
around it for some reason

Yes, it should remember what you had set. I just tested it and can't see a problem with it. Ensure you click OK.



This was changed to reduce the page size. What browser are you using?

firefox is doing it

Mine is too...and as i try and click the options to make it smaller..I get this..

A problem occurred while displaying dialog
A problem occurred while displaying dialog

My tables tiny!