LuisCypher wrote in Poker-heroes.com

www.poker-heroes.com/profile/125-reset-01-may-2012.html
Yuhuhu sleeper accounts/zombies. It's time to get out of the hole to come here and play your 20 games required or your minimum of 6 games/week !
So hurry, you don't want to miss another shot so chop chop guys.Now is your time !



@ LuisCypher :

To prevent for this happening again, and again, and again, and for we to have a fair, honest and a cleanest fight and EQUALITY TO EVERYONE in the ranking places, the placements points should be divide for the last 20 games, because is not equal being the placement points divided by last 100 games for some, and placement points being divided by 20 games for others.
Or other alternative is put a penaltie of 50 % on scores for players that does'nt have 100 games .
The way that ranking system is working is a advertising for NOT playing if you want to get good position, and is penalting the ones that do.
And it's awarding players with such unethical procedures and unfair for brilliant regular players(i cannot say the name of all of them,i would stay here all day, but there are hundreds out there).
Might well say that we all should play 20 games for season and then stop playing.
And if they say the time for playing is short, at February 13th, after last ranking reset we had twice the players we normally have, so if you want to atract more users is doing ranking resets every week.
The number of new accounts created for the ocasion is preety funny too...i saw some days a player in my game with 2 victories in 2 games...i eliminated him and he got 7 or 6 place...can't recall...and i said " sorry for giving you the trouble of creating a new account"...and he said "i have to start again lol".
After 40 minutes i checked the nick and it was gone.

We stopped the harassement,we will stop the guys that create 5 seconds game name when it is indeed 60 seconds making everyone leave after game started, and we will stop this "zombies", to provide US regular users of PokerTh, good and clean games.You can call this my personal fight, but i am not alone in my way of thinking.

Ps:Sorry if i sound a little rude, but if i congratulated the wonderful work you both, PokerTH and Pokerheroes team are developing here, now it is also time to make this critical.I know you do your best for this project, but as a regular user, i feel the need to express the good and the bad this has to offer.
Pls don't be offended for my words, a player that wants the very best for your project, a comedian and defroked priest at your services


YuGo

It is all mute. Pokerth team never listens regarding the ranking, i explained
the badness again and again
They said: you asked for 100 games, here is your request fulfilled, lol, and only first 20 games are enough. Such brilliant idea to reward not playing even more.


Cheers, filer.

Sorry HUGO, but the harassment did not end... Actually, every time, when I enter at lobby, a new player insults me, now they follow the following procedure:

***Create stalker-harasser-player -> wait and insult -> delete player ... ad infinitum.***

And what is worse, I was very busy traveling the last 3 months and I had no stable connection to play, when I received an e-mail from a friend, telling me that someone was supplanting me again, someone was using my old avatars and some of my first nicks. When I checked I saw that it was true, someone apparently missed me, lol. They are using complex harassment methods now, even when i'm not there, they supplant me to make people believe that is me and damage my reputation... they are acting like little kids.

But worse was to discover the terrible truth that lies behind the scenes, a investigation helped me to connect unrelated data from the previous season and the current one: purposes of nicknames - matches-coincidences between behaviours&words - 3 partners associated - manipulation and a smoke curtain - games titles trying to hurt - and more...

The responsibles of the harassment during 8 months have not renounced to their attitude and also they have used it for their personal profit (example: ranking positions and victories) ... They are lucky that I have not enough time yet to publish their truth, but I will do ... a wolf never forgets ... currently they have (and they are) manipulated (-ing) the whole community with lies and honey-sweet words. They are the same snakes of last season but with different lamb disguise.

An important clue, you will discover the importance that I have for them (or rather their obsession with their fake crusade against me (crusade that is really a smoke-curtain to hide their methods, using me as a scapegoat)... they reveal their colours with their words about me during the games when I'm not present (a friend reported me this) (you will see them talking bad about me when I am not present, sometimes very often, you can see how they put their attention on me and their inner rage is revealed in their words when they are speaking about me).

@ "Tila", "HUGO", "win me??" (and all the players that have played with me before ranking): You know me well, we have played during a long time (even before ranking), please do not allow them to manipulate you as they have achieved with others (they will not stop until they put everyone against me). When I have time next month I will explain everything that has happened for you can understand. These people have used very dirty tactics to try to hurt (I was even thinking about talk with german police). On the last season, nobody can just imagine what happened the last week and especially the last 3 days.

Regards, Good luck and enjoy the games, this is the most important.
Cody.

Just a few words after midnight. You should keep in mind, that we lost 2 persons at the Poker-Heroes.com team. And i found a new competent developer in a very short time.

But also he has to go through the code. He did and we found that we need to concentrate to the system stability and performance. About the ranking: I don´t want to discuss this any more at this time. Espacially not when we had personal changes we still need to compensate. I think everything was said about this. We discussed all of this with you. And we want to change the system, but... we had personal changes. So please don´t forget this small but important fact.

If you provide me the code for the random generation of hands, exact code
you use on the server! I will test it.

I have almost finished glicko2 rating (www.glicko.net/glicko/glicko2.pdf) implementation in java.
But i am not willing to make it public until i am sure that the random generation of hands on pokerth is ok.
After many played games i am more and more convinced that pairs get repeated almost every time. And that is crucial for the game!
The code you pointed me out to does not help at all.
Swallow your pride and enable users to really be sure that random generation is ok. So provide the code that is used and script that compiles it?
I know that server it is not open source but ...

Current ranking plainly said sucks and random generation of hands is mildly said strange.
But first take care of random generation problem and then i will provide the ranking implementation.
To list the problems:
- random generation!
- sync problems
- strange crashes
- server kicking
- after server problems players timeout sometimes and the places are distributed randomly (that should never happen)
.
.
.
And the biggest, code is a monster as it was patched to become a network game.

Cheers, filer.

Dear filer,

normally i would ignore your post because of your overbearing language! Just because other community members (which haven't followed the previous posts) might be interested in the random number "problem" i write this answer.
As i wrote many times before we use the following code for our random number generation (also on the server!):
pokerth.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/poker...ion=3248&view=markup

You can get the file via the svn command or download the source-package here: www.pokerth.net/download.html

This function from the file:
void Tools::GetRand(int minValue, int maxValue, unsigned count, int *out)
is used also for random number generation on the server!
Are you kidding? Why should WE build a script to compile tools.cpp? We've tested the power of the random numbers many times during the development process! We trust the tool. If you don't trust the code you need to check it by yourself or stop playing PokerTH. If you are not able to compile a c++ file to test it i'am sure you will not be able to handle the output of the file, sorry.
There are also other tasks for us to work on it: System stablity, performance issues, the Android port, new 1.0 features and so on.
So please do, what you think you need to, but stop bashing the team until you have mathematically powerfull facts that our random numbers are weak or wrong!
This is wrong and shows us that you've probably never took any look into the code. There are also many compiled pokerth-server packages available like this:
packages.debian.org/de/sid/pokerth-server
The whole system of the gaming management on the server is 100% open source. Just the code for transporting the game results to the database server on poker-heroes.com is not open source!
Do you read what you write before you click the "send" button? Why to you think we are waiting for YOUR ranking implementation? Who are you? As i wrote before: Let us know the exactly problem of the numbers (mathematically proved) and we will start to work on it!
This list is useless like your bashing in the morning! If you really like to help to develop PokerTH you should stop providing lists but start to write qualified bug-reports here: sourceforge.net/apps/trac/pokerth/report/1
To fix bugs we need more infos than "strange crashes". When does it happen, what did you do before it happens, which version on which os are you using. Is it reproduceable and so on. So if you want to help create an account on sf.net and write bug-reports.