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The dreaded "find a seat" button
illin wrote
at 9:37 AM, Wednesday August 10, 2011 EDT
Is that you're version of Googles "Feeling lucky" button?
This button is not very lucky. It's caused misery for a lot of people. It's positioned way too close to the "change table" button. Players end up going to tables they dont want to play at, and they cant leave becasue play already started.
One of two solutions:
1. get rid of the button
2. move it all the way to the right so no mix-ups will happen


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Louis Cypher wrote
at 9:44 AM, Wednesday August 10, 2011 EDT
I like the button somehow. I haven't been lucky in being seated yet (only received one bad 2k from it), but the idea is nice. I would change the meaning though.

Don't be taken to the maximum table you could possibly play. That's often a 2k or 5k and you might sit there on your own with no game going for eternity. You usually don't want that.

Instead, make the button take you to the table you are allowed to seat with the highest number of players already seated. This will give you a starting game soon - and that's what you usually want.
montecarlo wrote
at 9:53 AM, Wednesday August 10, 2011 EDT
ideally, you could change settings for what the button does in your settings menu. so for some like louis, it would take you to the table closest to starting, regardless of table level. for others, it would work the way it currently does. for others, it would only take you to 500 max tables because you want to avoid the clusterfuck of top table chatboxes.

for me, it would require some highly nonintuitive code:

set tableLevelList = (5000 2000 500 100 0)
foreach tableLevel ($tableLevelList)
if currentPoints >= tableLevel
scanAllTables
countNumberOfPlayersOnlineWithPointsGreaterThanTableLevel
if numberOfPlayers >=10
sit at table level
exit(-1)
endif
endif
end

and then id go bust my ass recruiting those other players.

but then id have to add some more levels of complexity, where i could incorporate my known list of fiero-type players who always refuse to play anything higher than 500, and exclude them from the count.

as it is, i like how it forces you to sit the highest possible. this will cause more points to enter the system each month, and will also cause the higher tables to be filled with more noobs earlier, and therefore less OTF shit. well, nvm, the highEST table level will always have a decent amt of OTF, but instead of 5k games only becoming decently fun during the last week of the month, maybe they will get to that point in the 3rd week of each month.
@EricInTheCloud wrote
at 11:01 AM, Thursday August 25, 2011 EDT
Downvote. The button should actually find you a seat when clicked.
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