After long and hard research, trial and error and a lot of creativity, we are finally ready to launch our updated ranking system. The system will retain the same "mark" concept as before (giving marks from 0% to 100% on a per game basis), but will calculate marks in a smarter way.
First of all, marks will be calculated on a per hand basis and will take the actual rank of the people you play against in that hand into consideration. The sophisticated algorithm also makes adjustments for mark inflation and rewards players for playing parts of a game rather than only rewarding players for playing in full games. We plan to continuously tweak our ranking algorithm based on the data that we gather and on user feedback.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Jawaker Launches New Ranking System
Jawaker has launched its new ranking system! Now players will be ranked on a game-by-game basis.How does ranking work?
- You are only ranked based on games that you finish from start to end- The better you play the more marks you will earn
- We also take into consideration the rank of other players in the game
- You must keep playing in order to retain and improve your rank. If you don't play in full games for a long time your rank will go down
Tokens will now only be given after the end of each round. They will not be given out at the end of the game and they will not influence your rank anymore. In the future, you will be able to exchange them for different things on Jawaker.
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Winners of the Ramadan Trix Competition
The winners of the Ramadan Trix Competition have been announced. The top 4 players of the 64 players that qualified for the final round each won an Acer 15.4" laptop. The winner of the final table was sattam_77 and he also won the 42" Sanyo flat screen LCD television. The winners are shown above, from left to right: sattam_77, OmarTM, fadi_ru and Muaidbcn. Congratulation to all!
Thursday, September 24, 2009
New Chat System
Most of the complaints that we have been getting lately were related to chat, and people misusing the chat box. We care about keeping Jawaker a friendly environment, and that's why we decided to revamp the whole chat system.
The chat is now a totally separate subsystem that can be managed independently of everything else; this gives us a lot of dynamicity, something we really care about in Jawaker. The chat now is filtered against a smart list of bad words that not only catches the words in their original format, but also catches variations of the word. The word is then replaced with stars. This list is constantly being enhanced and extended.
To protect our players from people who repeatedly misuse the chatbox, we implemented a policy by which a player who is reported for language misuse too often is banned from chatting for two weeks. So make sure you flag players who annoy you with their language by clicking the
next to their name on the game table!
Another small adjustment, now you can see the chat as a viewer of the game, but you still can't participate :)
The chat is now a totally separate subsystem that can be managed independently of everything else; this gives us a lot of dynamicity, something we really care about in Jawaker. The chat now is filtered against a smart list of bad words that not only catches the words in their original format, but also catches variations of the word. The word is then replaced with stars. This list is constantly being enhanced and extended.
To protect our players from people who repeatedly misuse the chatbox, we implemented a policy by which a player who is reported for language misuse too often is banned from chatting for two weeks. So make sure you flag players who annoy you with their language by clicking the
next to their name on the game table!Another small adjustment, now you can see the chat as a viewer of the game, but you still can't participate :)
Sunday, August 23, 2009
The Ramadan Trix Competition
We launched our second competition today. Our Ramadan Trix Competition will be bigger and a little different from our last competition. Players will compete to be one of the top 64 players, after which they will play AGAINST each other in an online elimination tournament. The last 4 players will each win a laptop and the winner of the final table will win a 42" flat screen LCD television. Good luck to all!
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