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#1264687 - Mon May 04 2020 11:45 PM Re: Suggestions
DireWolf74 Offline
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Divs. 11 & 12 in the Daily game are reserved for the champs.
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#1264698 - Tue May 05 2020 01:56 AM Re: Suggestions
nasty_liar Offline
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I agree with you triviaballer that it’s about time that more champions divisions were made in Daily Game. I had never considered the possibility for collusion there but you are right, all Daily Game champs know they are appearing in either 11 or 12 so even just two players could make that work for one of them 50% of the time.

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#1265035 - Sat May 09 2020 01:22 PM Re: Suggestions
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I would like to suggest four ideas for the Crystal Ball game:

1) create a champion league for the crystal ball (Hurricane Bill League).

2) make the "fortune teller" badge upgradable matching Hurricane Bill could be the crown.

3) a three in 24 hours (or a day) guesser badge(let) for the game.

4) champion league monthly winner.

I can see there are several on here who absolutely love the crystal ball game. Maybe having their own league would make it more competitive for them? This would also give those of us who have tried hundreds of times without a win a chance to actually win it. We just had a player win 3 games in a row (again) and about 5 players have won half of the last 24 games which is not too uncommon. I think that's great. I am pretty sure I understand how the best are having so much success and with 3 or 4 years of play I probably could do it too.

Anyway just a thought. Might make it more fun for the experts and novice alike.

Thanks for listening! Love the site.

BTD

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#1265610 - Wed May 20 2020 12:24 AM Re: Suggestions
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I don't remember seeing this being brought up before so how about a Mini badge for not scoring a point in the Knockout Fantasy game in a week. This would entail selecting 7 players that did not make it past round 1. Yes, it would make the weekly favorites all wonky but I think it would be fun and interesting.

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#1265613 - Wed May 20 2020 12:47 AM Re: Suggestions
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And I would have won it several times!
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#1265642 - Wed May 20 2020 06:35 PM Re: Suggestions
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I would be a Trivia God at that.

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#1265684 - Thu May 21 2020 01:55 AM Re: Suggestions
MiraJane Offline
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Originally Posted By: looney_tunes
And I would have won it several times!



I would have won that more easily than I won any of the other Fantasy League badges.

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#1265694 - Thu May 21 2020 07:35 AM Re: Suggestions
andymuenz Offline
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Won't that increase the likelihood of no shows? If someone was in a tournament that was part of the fantasy league, they could just not play and then they'd only have to get the other 6 wrong.

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#1265705 - Thu May 21 2020 12:16 PM Re: Suggestions
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All games appear to be geared towards fast players.

Could we please have another tier that is directed towards players that are good but not as fast as other players?

It is really disheartening when you give all your best to find out that another player did a amazing 15.7 seconds in a game that you couldn't do in no more than 28 seconds and contribute nothing at all to your team.

It is no a case of sour apples.
It is the what happens day after day!

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#1265720 - Thu May 21 2020 01:09 PM Re: Suggestions
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gme24, I agree with you to an extent about the tiers. I don't agree with how they are currently set up. A player that is scoring 984+ in the Easy game should never be below Tier 5 and probably should primarily be in the top tier, Tier 6. The system currently seems to be set up to tier rank based on a player's average percentile finish against all players. So for example the player that always scores 970 and is in the 15th percentile will be in Tier 6 but never win. But, the player that scores 985 (1st percentile), 982 (5th percentile), 983 (2nd percentile), 885 (90th percentile) and 880 (95th percentile) will be placed in a lower tier (probably 3 or 4) in spite of this being the more deadly player. The games and bonuses are built around first place finishes (win points, game point bonuses) so it's odd to me that the tiers are not set up this way. I've recommended some type of set up whereby a player's median percentile ranking or even just their top 20% of their scores percentile ranking be used for sorting tiers. There are at least 3 players that are Division 4 or lower in the Easy game that should be Tier 6 all the time. Now having said this I don't think there's an exact solution. By its nature online competitive trivia is built on speed because it's too easy to Google most stuff otherwise so the games really do need to have a time component. A good reference for Tier sorting may be that if you have Tier 7'd an achievement in a certain game you are minimum Tier 5 in that game. So that'd be less than 16 seconds in the Easy game and less than 30 seconds in the Word Wizard as a reference.

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#1265723 - Thu May 21 2020 01:25 PM Re: Suggestions
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Let's please not confuse tiers with divisions. They are two different things. Tiers refer to badge upgrades and divisions are the groups you get sorted into when you play.
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#1265724 - Thu May 21 2020 01:26 PM Re: Suggestions
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Bad enough they changed the name of topic mashes to mixed quizzes when there is already a game called Mixed.
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#1265726 - Thu May 21 2020 02:38 PM Re: Suggestions
nasty_liar Offline
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Originally Posted By: Triviaballer
gme24, I agree with you to an extent about the tiers. I don't agree with how they are currently set up. A player that is scoring 984+ in the Easy game should never be below Tier 5 and probably should primarily be in the top tier, Tier 6. The system currently seems to be set up to tier rank based on a player's average percentile finish against all players. So for example the player that always scores 970 and is in the 15th percentile will be in Tier 6 but never win. But, the player that scores 985 (1st percentile), 982 (5th percentile), 983 (2nd percentile), 885 (90th percentile) and 880 (95th percentile) will be placed in a lower tier (probably 3 or 4) in spite of this being the more deadly player. The games and bonuses are built around first place finishes (win points, game point bonuses) so it's odd to me that the tiers are not set up this way. I've recommended some type of set up whereby a player's median percentile ranking or even just their top 20% of their scores percentile ranking be used for sorting tiers. There are at least 3 players that are Division 4 or lower in the Easy game that should be Tier 6 all the time. Now having said this I don't think there's an exact solution. By its nature online competitive trivia is built on speed because it's too easy to Google most stuff otherwise so the games really do need to have a time component. A good reference for Tier sorting may be that if you have Tier 7'd an achievement in a certain game you are minimum Tier 5 in that game. So that'd be less than 16 seconds in the Easy game and less than 30 seconds in the Word Wizard as a reference.


It’s not just limited to the easy game. I usually feature in division 4 of the mixed hourly despite the fact that I have already got the overall best hourly score over 25 times (mix winner upgradeable).
So I agree with you trivia baller. I mentioned it very early on when the divisions were introduced.

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#1265768 - Fri May 22 2020 11:08 AM Re: Suggestions
nasty_liar Offline
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Another suggestion for the Mixed game would be using a timer to a hundredth of a second like piece of cake does. That would be great. Thanks.

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#1265779 - Sat May 23 2020 10:23 AM Re: Suggestions
CoachLamb Offline
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Originally Posted By: nasty_liar
Another suggestion for the Mixed game would be using a timer to a hundredth of a second like piece of cake does. That would be great. Thanks.


I concur

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#1265794 - Sun May 24 2020 07:32 AM Re: Suggestions
Briseis Offline
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"It is really disheartening when you give all your best to find out that another player did a amazing 15.7 seconds in a game that you couldn't do in no more than 28 seconds and contribute nothing at all to your team."

You could always change team or start your own....

We have the opposite "problem": we are in League B and there are only 8 of us tops... often only 6 play, so ALL our results, no matter how good or bad, count every day towards our team's results.

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#1266181 - Sat May 30 2020 09:48 AM Re: Suggestions
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#1266219 - Sat May 30 2020 07:47 PM Re: Suggestions
MrNobody97 Offline
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It would be a good mirror-image challenge of More Point Precision (get 12345).

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#1267460 - Thu Jun 18 2020 05:47 PM Re: Suggestions
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Originally Posted By: Triviaballer
It's a great game but I would recommend having the Daily Game expanded into more question sets. Why is it that there are 80+ players in one division (11 and 12)? With teams with a lot of players on it very early in the day there will be a teammate that has played in Div 11 and another in Div 12. It seems very easy to collude. As a reference the Pot of Gold game usually only has 25 or less players per question set and has 15 question sets. So why are there so few divisions in the Daily Game?


Originally Posted By: nasty_liar
I agree with you triviaballer that it’s about time that more champions divisions were made in Daily Game. I had never considered the possibility for collusion there but you are right, all Daily Game champs know they are appearing in either 11 or 12 so even just two players could make that work for one of them 50% of the time.


It seems to be happening more and more lately.

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#1276752 - Tue Nov 03 2020 07:52 PM Re: Suggestions
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Resurrecting this thread, echoing the above post. Today so far in the Daily Game, 59 and 69 people have played in division 11 and 12 respectively. Looking at a bunch of the other divisions, the number of players are between 15-21 or so. Also, 90 of the top 100 scores are from the Champion sets.

Now, that doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing (these people are Champs for a reason), but I still think more Champion sets should be added, to prevent the possibility for collusion which others have pointed out, and if nothing else then at least to spread the players out a bit. Maybe to four or five sets, which if today is anything to go by would have 25-35 players each in them. I understand that the Champion sets might need to have more players to toughen the competition, but considering the amount of talent already in those sets, perhaps 60-70 players per set is too many.

Happy to hear any thoughts from anyone, and thanks to you fellows running the site. I'm glad to spend my time here.
Erik

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#1276776 - Wed Nov 04 2020 07:50 AM Re: Suggestions
Barbarini Offline
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I have requested this in the past. It is far too easy for collusion to occur with only two sets. Time to add a few more please.

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#1278259 - Thu Dec 03 2020 09:50 PM Re: Suggestions
Matthew_07 Offline
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Would it be possible to receive a message notifying me if my quiz is being chosen as:

(i) Quiz of the hour
(ii) Daily Bus Ride
(iii) Daily Brain Teaser?

"Congratulations, you quiz XXX has been chosen as ...."

Or, the message could be sent upon the completion of the game, something like "Congratulations, your quiz XXX was chosen as ..., and it was played by XXX players."

It would be fun to look at the number of plays received and that would explain why some of my quizzes gets lots of plays in one particular hour/day.

A special message would be "Congratulations, your quiz XXX was played by XXX players over the past 24 hours". The threshold could be set to 500/1000. I noticed from this page https://www.funtrivia.com/24hours.cfm that sometimes a particular quiz receives thousands of plays in just one day.

Thanks. smile

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#1281939 - Tue Jan 26 2021 10:57 PM Re: Suggestions
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Hi, to whom it may concern, I would like to see some more Scavenger Hunt badges and badgelets added to the Scavenger Hunt section. It reads to check back periodically as we will add more scavenger hunts every few months but it looks like it has got stagnant for a while. Thanks for the enjoyable scavenger hunt quiz already provided they were awesome.

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#1285128 - Mon Mar 15 2021 12:57 AM Re: Suggestions
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As someone who is not Christian I find that there are an awful lot of questions in FITB that require knowledge of Christian religious traditions and books. I think this is unfair to those of us who are not Christian. I would like to suggest that questions on here have a limited number of questions referring to religion. Today, for example, three of the 15 questions had to do with this.

And I would really appreciate it if the gang that usually attacks people challenging the status quo would please not attack this. I am making a legitimate suggestion here and expect to be treated with respect, not derision. I say this because in my experience, every time I have made a suggestion that may challenge the status quo I get attacked, often personally.

I would say the same thing if FITB had that many questions related to, say, video games.

Thanks for your consideration.

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#1285141 - Mon Mar 15 2021 04:12 AM Re: Suggestions
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Also agree about religion questions popping up a bit too often, in all hourlies really. I don't mean to offend anyone of course but for literature questions I'm generally expected to know maybe 1 or 2 characters and the author, yet for religion I'm expected to have a working knowledge of nearly every person and story in the Bible.

You mentioned video games and it makes me wonder why it doesn't have its own category in the hourly games like Smartest and Easy. This conversation may have already been done to death and I haven't seen it so if so I apologise but it's the 8th most popular category in terms of quizzes created, the video games industry is huge now (compared to when the website was founded) and on a par with the television and movie industry. Even if it only popped up every now and then it'd add some more variety.

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