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knarl
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Auto postal not what I expected
« on: Mar 16th, 2010, 10:36pm » |
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Gday all,
The other day I decided to sign up for auto postal matches, but I got a surprise. I got paired with a bot that was 560 rating points lower than me, even though I asked for opponents within 150 points. What's up with that?
The other thing is, I was expecting (don't know why I assumed this) that my opponents would be human. Maybe if others agree, we could get some radio buttons to choose out of HvH, HvB or HvX?
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knarl.
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tize
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Re: Auto postal not what I expected
« Reply #1 on: Mar 16th, 2010, 11:07pm » |
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The auto postal is almost exactly what you expected.
You just have to play a bot in your first auto postal game. Once that game has been finished you'll get human opponents within your specified rating range.
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Re: Auto postal not what I expected
« Reply #2 on: Mar 17th, 2010, 8:54am » |
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Thanks for mentioning this. I should include a message to let the players know that the first game is against a bot just to get familiar with how it works and that following games will be against humans.
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knarl
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Re: Auto postal not what I expected
« Reply #3 on: Mar 23rd, 2010, 4:49pm » |
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No worries, I'm off and racing now (albeit getting beaten, but the hope of a comeback, or at least a close race to goal is what makes arimaa great).
Cheers,
knarl.
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knarl
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Re: Auto postal not what I expected
« Reply #4 on: Mar 23rd, 2010, 4:52pm » |
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On a related note: Is there a way to see all the players signed up for auto postal games?
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