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Am I missing something? I didn't think I could get Karma penalties from testing my own game in studio, but seems I have.

So I need the official rules video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p75Ep1zzo4 to be linked to Lady's Choice. Every time I do, it says I need a Karma score of at least 50%.

What do I do?

JonChambers wrote: ↑01 October 2021, 05:54 Am I missing something? I didn't think I could get Karma penalties from testing my own game in studio, but seems I have.

So I need the official rules video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p75Ep1zzo4 to be linked to Lady's Choice. Every time I do, it says I need a Karma score of at least 50%.

What do I do?

Just play in training mode.

Tisaac wrote: ↑01 October 2021, 06:53 Just play in training mode.

Priority 1 is get the video up.

Also... what's training mode?

JonChambers wrote: ↑01 October 2021, 05:54 Am I missing something? I didn't think I could get Karma penalties from testing my own game in studio, but seems I have.

You didn't get karma penalties for testing your own games, as far as your profile says. The account "JonChambers" has mediocre karma because it has only ever played a single game of Yathzee several months ago. Just play a few games of whatever to get your karma up and active again, see if that solves your issue?

Also, are you talking about the studio or the mainsite? I suppose the studio since your game is not yet in alpha.

Having the video on the studio isn't important (the studio is for developers), but I can put it up if you post the link here.

JonChambers wrote: ↑01 October 2021, 07:24

Tisaac wrote: ↑01 October 2021, 06:53 Just play in training mode.

Priority 1 is get the video up.

Also... what's training mode?

And that's maybe the reason why it's better to play a bit on bga before starting developping on the studio, just saying...
Just look at the game options on the left when creating a table.

Een wrote: ↑01 October 2021, 08:38 Also, are you talking about the studio or the mainsite? I suppose the studio since your game is not yet in alpha.

Having the video on the studio isn't important (the studio is for developers), but I can put it up if you post the link here.

Thanks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p75Ep1zzo4

Otherwise, I'll have to create end-game on setup and pump through 27 games to get it back up to 100%, which will be really tedious.

Now that I know the training mode trick, could you please just change the number? I'll know not to test outside of training mode again.

Salvidrim wrote: ↑01 October 2021, 08:02

JonChambers wrote: ↑01 October 2021, 05:54 Am I missing something? I didn't think I could get Karma penalties from testing my own game in studio, but seems I have.

You didn't get karma penalties for testing your own games, as far as your profile says. The account "JonChambers" has mediocre karma because it has only ever played a single game of Yathzee several months ago. Just play a few games of whatever to get your karma up and active again, see if that solves your issue?

My "mediocre Karma" is 76%

The error message reads
"Your Karma (☯) reputation must be at least 50% to take this action (you get +3 each time you finish a game)"

Tisaac wrote: ↑01 October 2021, 10:25 And that's maybe the reason why it's better to play a bit on bga before starting developping on the studio, just saying...
Just look at the game options on the left when creating a table.

I get that your heart is in the right place. You really think information like this is helpful for me and my current circumstances. And I appreciate the effort you're putting in into trying to improve the quality of my life. But the effort is wasted. I've got an entire team waiting on me to finish this project, two kids to look after, and a wife I'm probably driving to the brink of divorce. "Play more games" is not the magic bullet you think it is for me right now.

JonChambers wrote: ↑01 October 2021, 11:20 I get that your heart is in the right place. You really think information like this is helpful for me and my current circumstances. And I appreciate the effort you're putting in into trying to improve the quality of my life. But the effort is wasted. I've got an entire team waiting on me to finish this project, two kids to look after, and a wife I'm probably driving to the brink of divorce. "Play more games" is not the magic bullet you think it is for me right now.

It's not about "playing games", it's about "understanding better the website on which you are going to propose your game in the future". And I'm not only talking about the playing part, but everything else : interface, scores, ELO, translations, game lobby and table options, karma, zombie/quit/resign/out of time, tie, ... And you would have (or maybe even still will) gain lot of time if you improve your knowledge about all that before facing issue that you might never face if you knew these things better. But of course, feel free to ignore my advices if you still think it's useless and counter-productive to know these kind of stuff.

Would be good to have a button in Studio to simply restore all of your Karma...

Tisaac wrote: ↑01 October 2021, 12:23 It's not about "playing games", it's about "understanding better the website on which you are going to propose your game in the future". And I'm not only talking about the playing part, but everything else : interface, scores, ELO, translations, game lobby and table options, karma, zombie/quit/resign/out of time, tie, ... And you would have (or maybe even still will) gain lot of time if you improve your knowledge about all that before facing issue that you might never face if you knew these things better. But of course, feel free to ignore my advices if you still think it's useless and counter-productive to know these kind of stuff.

Same could be said about the BGA team and the general website. Apparently no-one from the BGA team plays Arena, not even it's creator has finished an Arena season. Same goes for playing competitively and dealing with cheating cheaters.

RicardoRix wrote: ↑01 October 2021, 13:16 Would be good to have a button in Studio to simply restore all of your Karma...

Tisaac wrote: ↑01 October 2021, 12:23 It's not about "playing games", it's about "understanding better the website on which you are going to propose your game in the future". And I'm not only talking about the playing part, but everything else : interface, scores, ELO, translations, game lobby and table options, karma, zombie/quit/resign/out of time, tie, ... And you would have (or maybe even still will) gain lot of time if you improve your knowledge about all that before facing issue that you might never face if you knew these things better. But of course, feel free to ignore my advices if you still think it's useless and counter-productive to know these kind of stuff.

Same could be said about the BGA team and the general website. Apparently no-one from the BGA team plays Arena, not even it's creator has finished an Arena season. Same goes for playing competitively and dealing with cheating cheaters.

That's clearly off topic. I am talking about knowing which features exist so you know what you can or cannot do in the framework, and how to do them. I am not discussing whether these features are good or bad, and whether they should be changed, that's not the point of my remark at all.