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A few months ago you stopped having the Free Robot games at predictable times - :15 and :45 or some such. Since then, it seems they fill up even faster - the one time I clicked on one that was not full, it went from zero to ten in five seconds! Q!: Is it possible that some people have a way of knowing when these tourneys will appear, and if so, how can I get that too? Q2: Would you consider looking at the amount of time they now take to fill up, as opposed to before the change (or possibly to the number of different players who successfully register), and make at least some of them at predictable times?
Signed, jhuntingto, who played in 5 or 10 of the free robot games before the change and zero thereafter.
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Free robot games inaccessible? Can't ever seem to play in the free ones
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Posted 2010-July-17, 07:12
The Free Robot schedule is 100% consistent and predictable: there are two free Robot games every hour: Robot Race at :15 and Robot Duplicate at :45. Registration opens at :10 for Race and at :40 for Duplicate. It takes only a couple of seconds for each game to fill.
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Posted 2010-July-18, 18:53
Bbradley62, on Jul 17 2010, 08:12 AM, said:
The Free Robot schedule is 100% consistent and predictable: there are two free Robot games every hour: Robot Race at :15 and Robot Duplicate at :45. Registration opens at :10 for Race and at :40 for Duplicate. It takes only a couple of seconds for each game to fill.
A couple of seconds?!?!?!?! It used to be much longer. Any thought of, uh, making the games larger? If the purpose is to give a wide groups of people a chance to play in them, it's sure not working...
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Posted 2010-July-18, 19:46
I'd have thought the purpose of the free robot games was to give players a taste of how fun they are to encourage them to play in the paid games.
Disclaimer: The above post may be a half-baked sarcastic rant intended to stimulate discussion and it does not necessarily coincide with my own views on this topic.
I ♦ bidding the suit below the suit I'm actually showing not to be described as a "transfer" for the benefit of people unfamiliar with the concept of a transfer
I ♦ bidding the suit below the suit I'm actually showing not to be described as a "transfer" for the benefit of people unfamiliar with the concept of a transfer
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Posted 2010-July-19, 21:44
It costs $.25 to play a 8-hand robot duplicate . . . why not just cough up a quarter if you want to play in them so badly?
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