2012 All Star War - Participant List

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What I think should have happened rather than a "first to sign up, you snooze you lose" way of doing things, is let the sign ups go for at least 24 hours to let those players that could not be on at the specified time, have the chance to sign up. Sure, you'd get way more than the 1,600, but then you could load all the names into the computer and have it randomly generate a list of 1,600 participants. That would ensure a fairness for everyone.

And to the players that think lb players should have gotten an automatic enty: how is it fair for a player that bought their way to the top (no, not all of them have, but there are plenty) to have a better chance than someone who has worked their ass off to get to the top?
 
Wulf said:
-WarGorilla- said:
Obviously they were not clear enough devs. In feedback pm's you told me you'd look into it, but judging by what you just said. You didn't look into it.

And obviously you are not sorry. You couldn't possibly care less.

I also fixed my sign up, and I'm still not on waiting list. Nice game you got goin here.

It takes work to make a good game, so if you want this game to be best it can be, you can't rely on a ******* computer to do all the work for you.
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Your really think doing it by hand would result in fewer errors?
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I just want to clear up that this is not a case of "errors". We had clear directions on what tag to use. Judging by the signups we have, a large majority of players understood this. This is a slippery slope, if we allow "#ASW 2012", then do we also allow "#A S W 2012"? Where do we draw the line? Unfortunately the fair thing is to allow players who did follow the instructions to participate. This would have been the case regardless of whether we did all this by hand or via a computer.

I understand your frustration, and I know it can be very disappointing. The only thing I can say right now is that we will have more regular events like this, so rest assured, you will definitely not have to wait a year to participate in a fun and meaningful event.
 
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Note that we have not checked this list against potential user duplicates. As mentioned before, only 1 account is allowed per user. If we find that one user has signed up with multiple accounts, all accounts will be disqualified.
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If you know of a player with more than one account registered you may report it anonymously to me and I will pass it to the developers. You may use a popular 3rd party chatting app to make your anonymous report. You can find me in a group called [KAW Mods]
 
Here's my idea for signups for next year.

Open the signup's for a full 24hrs.

Who ever is eligible and has registered within that 24hrs goes into a pool.

The first 50% of places available (eg this year 800 out of the 1600) go to those players in the pool who are highest ranked on the overall LB.

The second 50% of places are drawn at random from the remainder of the pool.

That way, it puts the "all star" back into ASW as the higher your rank the more chance you have of getting in, but also includes everyone else who is eligible, with no bias for sleep time etc.
 
paulnelson said:
Can understand people frustration at not making the participant list as the process was a bit of a shambles with no clarity provided until the last minute.

To be fair to the devs, they wouldn't have had to do that if people had been patient enough not to spam feedback before signup was open.

Has there been any indication whether each round will be auto join? I assume they will be but would be good to have it confirmed.
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There was several days of advanced notice of when the signup would be. When how to signup was announced early people still signed up before the allotted time. So the signup method was kept dark until about an hour before the allotted time.

I think they went to great lengths to making sure everyone knew the time of signup and where to look for how to signup at that time.

I even posted timezones for people who were too lazy to check an on-line time zone converter.

I would hardly call it a shambles or last minute. A lot of effort goes into this.
 
Jezza_of_Oz said:
Here's my idea for signups for next year.

Open the signup's for a full 24hrs.

Who ever is eligible and has registered within that 24hrs goes into a pool.

The first 50% of places available (eg this year 800 out of the 1600) go to those players in the pool who are highest ranked on the overall LB.

The second 50% of places are drawn at random from the remainder of the pool.

That way, it puts the "all star" back into ASW as the higher your rank the more chance you have of getting in, but also includes everyone else who is eligible, with no bias for sleep time etc.
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That idea has a lot of merit/potential.

Thank you Jezza
 
Drgnfire, it's quite fair to say the best players get priority in "All-Star War". I don't care if you spent a billion dollars in this game. Everybody has equal opportunity to grow. If somebody spent more money then others, they're still stronger as far as the game statistics are concerned.

If one person was allowed to spend more money, or had any unfair advantage in the game, then they shouldn't be allowed to participate. As the oracle is a part of the game, I consider it a real life benefit.

What I am saying is when you create an elite competition, designed for the most powerful players, you should have the most powerful players compete.


If somebody cheated, they'd be banned. So the point of "unfair advantage because they payed the developers money" is absolute bile.
 
Wulf - to clarify. By shambles (wrong choice of word) I was referring to the fact that we didn't find out the sign up method for sure until an hour before the signup. This wasn't ideal for some timezones hence I understand some people's frustration.

I did make the point that the devs were forced into it by people not reading the rules and signing up early when told not to.

Your timezone guide was very helpful but the BST/GMT issue does bring up the Kaw World Clock debate.
 
@Augustus, I thought I would clarify, but I have a feeling there's no point. You think what you want, I'll think what I want. Bile or not.
 
paulnelson said:
Wulf - to clarify. By shambles (wrong choice of word) I was referring to the fact that we didn't find out the sign up method for sure until an hour before the signup. This wasn't ideal for some timezones hence I understand some people's frustration.

I did make the point that the devs were forced into it by people not reading the rules and signing up early when told not to.

Your timezone guide was very helpful but the BST/GMT issue does bring up the Kaw World Clock debate.
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I love the idea of a KAW World Clock.
Its a popular idea but poses a UI (user interface) issue.
There is very little room for new features to be crammed into the interface.
 
Codeine said:
If it took 3 hours to fill 10,000 spots, why am I on waiting list? I signed up at approximately 12:20.
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I don't know the exact time but it tool well under 3 hours. Sorry if I misspoke on that
 
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