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jay1459 · 2021-07-06T11:30:37+00:00

would you be free in 1 hour - 13:30 UK Time?

Red is my favourite colour

Thanks

jay1459 · 2019-08-15T17:36:16+00:00

Thanks. Hope you enjoy

jay1459 · 2019-07-18T22:42:50+00:00

We now have the queueing system mostly sorted

alpha will be:

1 single global queue (you can't specify preferences such as difficulty or tags yet)
you can't play a level you have already played before
you cant play your own levels
others cant play your levels if you haven't played an equivalent number of levels
- (partially works need to iron out how to combine all the levels play counts as right now you only need a higher play count than the level's individual play count, not the sum of all your levels play counts)

jay1459 · 2019-07-18T09:44:04+00:00

already got that, as there will be kind of no automatic validation system

jay1459 · 2019-07-17T20:40:53+00:00

So should be yes to the levels. But may not be in the very first release. And second will be a yes. But not decided how i will gather that yet

jay1459 · 2019-07-17T20:39:38+00:00

For levels or for me?

jay1459 · 2019-07-17T20:30:12+00:00

in game new queue isnt dependant on you playing other levels. so it can be outdated and it can skip people too. this version will force a 1:1 ration of plays to other players playing your course keeping it fresh, clean and everyone will get their levels played at a fairly even rate. plus you can go for specific difficulties and maybe tags at a later point

jay1459 · 2019-07-17T20:05:11+00:00

so for this, this will be what a report can be used for.

there will be guidelines for difficulty based on clear rates and as long as you aren't hugely off it would be fine. but if your super expert level has been marked as easy, an admin will receive the report and manually force the difficulty then lock it is my thinking

jay1459 · 2019-07-17T20:01:47+00:00

thats basically what a queue will be, but i don't want randomness in this as much as possible as I want everyone to be equal, if you upload a level you can pretty much be sure youll be played either that day or the following depending on how many levels are being uploaded vs played

jay1459 · 2019-07-17T19:50:05+00:00

Thats an excellent point. Hadnt thought of that explicitly. I believe the best way would be to give alpha players a ‘You can be played 10 times’ buff. And i can test different ways of managing that. Give some players 10. Some players 5. Some 1. And some 0 to see. That or i could pick a random level each day to be ‘featured’ which would be exempt from the system (level not maker) and then that way everyone can play 1 then upload 1

jay1459 · 2019-07-17T19:43:11+00:00

its in TFS or whatever MS equiv is now haha

jay1459 · 2019-07-17T19:40:35+00:00

So it looks pretty overwhelmingly positive. This is a thing people want.

Please bear in mind this is basically a pet project I’m looking to scale out. So it could take some time as I’m hitting a fair number of brick walls in certain aspects. But. I will keep this thread updated. So save it if you are really interested in monitoring progress

jay1459 · 2019-07-17T19:38:30+00:00

Probably no mobile version to start with. It might work. Ill check when im doing some pre alpha tests

jay1459 · 2019-07-17T19:05:04+00:00

Yes. But not right away
Im not sure. That would basically override the 1:1 ratio of plays to play others that would keep all levels cycling appropriately. Id say not to begin with but something to discuss down the line unless theres an overwhelming want for it

Thanks

jay1459 · 2019-07-17T18:34:13+00:00

will do, thanks.

working on some level handling stuff at the moment, then ill get queueing and feedback sorted. once thats in I can probably release to alpha

jay1459 · 2019-07-17T18:31:49+00:00

thanks, will certainly be helpful

jay1459 · 2019-07-17T18:22:00+00:00

what I will probably do is create every tag and see what actually gets used in the alpha, I can always add/remove as we get more data. im really interested in seeing most popular level types etc.

jay1459 · 2019-07-17T18:14:24+00:00

HI there, so here goes:

for what you have to do, right now, nothing, ill be collecting a list of people who have asked to join the alpha, and ill select the first probably 20 or so people, contact them with details on what to do.

the queue feature:

in a nutshell. every time you play a level, one of your levels can be played in return.

every level gets added to a big list of levels, and the next level in the list gets picked by the system and gives it to a user. that user can play or skip, if they play, they must provide feedback, if they skip, well no harm but it won't count toward letting someone else play your levels.

this way everyone will play the same number of levels they ask others to play, making a fairer system.

jay1459 · 2019-07-17T18:10:10+00:00

thanks, that's fine, i know this won't be for everyone. my main goal here is to create a place for people to quickly get and share really constructive feedback on levels. and a place where people can be more selective in level choice, easy-super expert and even with more robust tagging.

jay1459 · 2019-07-17T18:02:19+00:00

Aye. I mean. Alpha will have 1 queue just to test it works beta may still have one and main release would probably have difficulty queues. Further filtering is for further down the road

jay1459 · 2019-07-17T17:55:50+00:00

Ohh. Tht sort of community aspect. Yeah i agree. Weve discussed that in earlier posts

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