fred Posted August 14, 2004 Report Share Posted August 14, 2004 The latest version of BBO is now available for testing. You canupdate your BBO to 3.8.2: www.bridgebase.com/beta382/bbo_update.exe or install everything from scratch (including all the latest files): www.bridgebase.com/beta382/bbo_setup.exe I suggest you use the first method, but however you do this,please make sure to exit the BBO program COMPLETELYbefore you install. Language news in 3.8.2: - Complete Dutch translation now available- Arabic, Chinese, Greek, and Japanese members should nowbe able to use chat in their native languages (needs testing!)- Latest versions of all of the translations for existing languageshave been included in 3.8.2- If you want to be involved in the BBO translation project,please contact support@bridgebase.com Flag news in 3.8.2: - Bermuda, French Polynesia, Jamaica, and Panama flags added- Let us know if your flag is missing! New features in 3.8.2: - You can send a chat message from the Partnership Desk- The Partnership Desk list can be customized to display onlythose people who are currently logged in- When you register in the Parternship Desk of a pay tourney,you will have to select one of the following options: 1) I am willing to pay my own entry fee2) I may be willing to pay entry fees for both players3) I will only play if someone pays my entry fee4) I will only play if someone pays my entry fee andgives me $x in addition If 4) sounds strange to you, the primary purpose of this optionis to make it easy for teachers and professional players to chargetheir students to play online. Besides that, a lot of people aremaking good money in this way on our site and it only seemsfair if we get a % of this :) The default is that 4) is disabled. In order for it to be enabledfor a given member, that member has to get permission fromus, agree to a bunch of terms... Hopefully these changes will help to make the PartnershipDesk more usable than it has been in the past. - Members who receive permission from us will be able toset up "pay tables" (in Main Bridge Club, Private Club,or Public Club), "pay partnership bidding tables" and"pay chat rooms". When a person tries to join one of these tables/chat rooms, he/she is prompted with "do you agree to pay $x to join?". This feature is designed primarily for teachers (who willhave to agree to various terms in order to participate). - New sound effect for when a friend logs in- New sound effect for when one of those dialog boxes thatinvites you to play in a tourney appears- Mouse over table in list in Vugraph Theatre will display infoabout who is playing at that table and how many peopleare watching- Button for accessing vugraph schedule web page nowavailable in Vugraph Theatre- Order of tournament list has been changed so that currenttourneys and finished tourneys are at the top of the list. Probably we will be make additional changes to this screenin the not too distant future.- New options when creating a tourney to control chat->tourney and Barometer scoring.- Players can now win achievement awards for success inpay tournaments that offer masterpoints using the ACBLscale (right now that means ACBL and BBOLand) These "awards" appear as symbols on members' userprofiles in the same way that the star symbol appears.The new symbols, however, do not appear in the list of names in the lobby or in the table list. It should be noted that these symbols are NOT intended tobe any kind of "rating system" to measure a given member'sskill level. Having a lot of masterpoints is partly a measureof skill, but it is also partly a measure of participation. Here are the new symbols along with the definitions thatwe are now using for them (which are not set in stone).Only masterpoints earned on BBO count in terms ofthe following awards: A=the person who has won the most mps (nancylh)K=the rest of the top 10Q=the rest of the top 50J=the rest of the top 10010=over 1000 masterpoints9=over 500 masterpoints8=over 300 masterpoints7=over 200 masterpoints6=over 100 masterpoints5=over 50 masterpoints4=over 20 masterpoints3=over 5 masterpoints2=over 1 masterpoint Our rules regarding the star symbol will not change as aresult of added these new symbols. Our hope is that the introduction of these new symbolswill foster additional cheating and bad manners amongcertain elements of our membership. - The usual assortment of bug fixes and minor cosmeticchanges. The bug that caused some people to crash afterclicking on name in the list of kibitzers is now fixed. Our plan is release a new version to the general membershipby the end of August. We could really use your help intesting 3.8.2. Please give it a thorough workout and reportany problems you find to me: fred@bridgebase.com Thanks in advance for bug reports and feedback! Fred GitelmanBridge Base Inc.www.bridgebase.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deanrover Posted August 14, 2004 Report Share Posted August 14, 2004 Was anyone else i) Forced to restart their PCii) Their desktop shortcut does not work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred Posted August 14, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2004 When I said: "Our hope is that the introduction of these new symbolswill foster additional cheating and bad manners amongcertain elements of our membership." it was meant to be a joke in anticipation of various controversies that are sure to surround the new symbols. Apparently several people did not get the joke. Guess itwasn't very funny :) Fred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rain Posted August 14, 2004 Report Share Posted August 14, 2004 Can the A, K, etc be optional? :> Also, erm, has nancy really won more than 1000 points? That's a fantastic achievement in a few months, or does her profile say AT ? lol Rain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uday Posted August 15, 2004 Report Share Posted August 15, 2004 Note: only yellows can post to this particular forum. If someone wants a 382-bug-thread, suggest opening it elsewhere. Curently, the "ministars" (aka symbols, awards, etc) are not optional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beky Posted August 15, 2004 Report Share Posted August 15, 2004 Hi all, just updating and all sound missing. One question "barometer" it is only for individual or for pair clocked/unclocked too? TY have a nice day Beky PS Uninstall and reinstall .exe and now work-it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uday Posted August 15, 2004 Report Share Posted August 15, 2004 Barometer applies to individuals and also to pairs (clocked and unclocked) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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