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We hear this once in a while, usually in the wrong context
Its a game of solitaire. There's rules of play for the game which you follow. But you choose your own way of following them
You choose for yourself whether undo, retry, peeking at cards, is allowed. This can vary depending on your mood at the time
That's the Spirit!For competition purposes, house rules need to be posted and its expected that players follow these rules. However its up to the players to follow them. Its not possible by the site to ensure all the rules are followed
If the rules are not posted, play the way you like. Altho looking up solutions is an obvious indiscretion
Stats are maintained for your daily streak ie by calendar day, current streak which spans days, and your best streak
There's an implicit assumption that the player that has the highest streak is a better player
This may be true, but...
It has to because it does not keep track of the games you have already played
For Streak play it helps prevents cheating
But if you are interested in playing every game in a variant...
It doesn't keep track of the last game you played, or how many times you played it, or which attempt was your first win
Of course your play is counted in the overall stats but otherwise not tracked (ok... briefly in Recent Play. And in the Play Logs (which only go back to Sep 2021))
It could (i suppose) select the next if you are playing again for the same variant. But if you switch variants it doesn't know the last so it can't. So it selects a game number randomly
It would be nice if it could cycle thru the games, from 0 thru 32767, so you can know whether you have played all the games in a variant
There's 32768 games so chances are that the game will not be one you have already played. Or at least not recently
There are millions of games to be played and just a few thousand players playing them about 2/3 of whom play 8x4 exclusively
Games are not equivalent to players. The 'exchange' should consider this. Maybe K factor?
Game Elo should be set on first play
Game Elo should be set to 0 if the game is unwinnable
If an 'unwinnable' game is won, set Elo as for first play, then as first win
It may get tweaked...Plays where game Elo is 0 should be excluded from all Elo calculations
Plays where player Elo is 0 should be excluded from all Elo calculations
I noticed some time ago that the first card dealt is a clue to the game number eg if it is the
KH then game number will be in the range 0 thru 1195. This is always true for level 10. Its a side effect of using consecutive game number as random seed.
I posted this on the discussion board here
The shuffle adjustments for the other levels may cause a different first card for some games
As expected game number for 8D in range 26312-27507
Game number and level determine the shuffle. The deal depends on the layout, the number of columns.
If you look at 5x6 1234-5 and 6x6 1234-5 you'll notice that its the same shuffle, just shifted due to the number of columns
Level 10 deals are unadjusted.
Lower levels adjust so the more high cards are injected earlier in the shuffle so that more low cards are playable sooner
Higher levels adjust so the more lower cards are injected earlier in the shuffle so that more high cards are playable sooner
The change in the algorithm for levels other than 10, because it involves an extra random call, causes the base shuffle to be significantly different than the unadjusted level 10 shuffle. You'll notice the level 9 and level 11 deals are more alike each other than the unadjusted level 10. Levels other than 10 are not only adjusted but based on an altogether different shuffle. Unexpected, but nothing wrong with that. Its an interesting feature of NetCELL's algorithm
Note that this is not a card swap. When the first adjusted card is injected in to the shuffle, the remainder of the shuffle is completely different
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