Agreed, great updates, thanks to you and Spock for all the work and... thanks a lot for the permalink to Paia Groject 🥰

Hi there, this is my furst post so bare with me I will make this suggestion for the auction mode "choose while bidding" So this works only with 4 players. My point is when u do this auction the last player has somewhat good advantage over rest of the players since he has all the information he needs for his pick so after he picks his chosen race the rest of the players could make a vote each gets one vote with y/n ,y=he keeps his race , n=this race is banned and since they are 3 players u cant have a draw its eather that race is banned or he will play it.Idk if that will help but thats what i come up with. There can be added option to last player to pay 5 victory points for each "n" he gets, to keep his race so about -15 points at most but i am not sure about this :)

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I am pleased that my system was adopted despite not being rotationally consistent. Having played a bit with it now, I might suggest one small modification which would be to use lower case letters as they create a better distinction between the data. Example: 10A5 becomes 10a5 I also noticed that it is easier to type (when making notes) because you dont have to keep using "shift".

Yeah that's what I thought at first, but then again, Coyotte is right when he says that you just have to pass each round and won't be losing elo anyways. That is fair towards people who still want to continue playing even when somebody has dropped. I agree with you that, for me, a game is over as soon as a player drop, but many users here like to keep on playing. And after all it is just a minor nuisance having to click the "pass" button 3 or 4 times...

@coyotte508 said in Auction, Player Status, other changes & Plans: @trojanrabbit Do you have a more generic formula, for games with 5, 6, ... 10 players? Maybe something like K = K * 3 / (N + 1), where N is the number of players? That would give the winner a global K of K * 3 * (N - 1) / (N + 1), tending towards a max of 3 times the elo gain. (It fits with your example: 60 for 2p -> 45 for 3p -> 36 for 4p). Yes, that is the formula I use. It's a pretty good fit up to 5 players. Haven't done experiments with more than that.

@Molfo Thank you for the report. I made several small changes which should prevent that kind of behavior from happening again.

I support Gyuri's idea about blitz timers. I know some players would like to play real-time games, which is hypothetically not even impossible - however not enforceable - with the current settings on the site. Even with the strictest settings what all we can hope for is other players' willingness to play real-time, which hardly leads to the desired outcome, so games stuck, get frustrating and last several days as opposed to ~2 hrs.

@JamesWolfpacker The timezone adapts based on your computer. If you set a game to run between 5 and 8 PM, someone in another timezone 3 hours away would see the game running between 2 and 5 PM. There's no need to do any conversion on your part.

@coyotte508 yes it's fixed, thanks for the awesome response time!