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For reference, previous answers thread:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...Number=9996307

First, some notes on today's update:

1. The first thing you'll probably notice is the addition of time banks. Not that I need to say this, but post any issues you see with this feature. One difference from other sites is that you always have to manually press the Time button to activate your time bank, it will never activate automatically. So multi-tablers watch out for that. For those of you worried that the addition of time banks means fewer hands per hour, let's take a look at note #2.

2. Hands are dealt faster and the "standard" decision time is shorter (the time before the game beeps at you and starts counting down your rainbow). The "feel" of the game should be pretty much the same as you're used to, we tried to only make subtle changes. Hopefully the games are no slower with both 1 and 2 together, and if you get a bunch of fast players together it should be a decently faster paced game.

3. If you need your poker even faster but hated our speed tables, they now have animation! It's fast animation, but it's there. If you couldn't stand the "jerkiness" of the no animation speed tables, give these new ones a shot. They're still just for limit hold'em games, but if people think they would play well at NL I wouldn't mind putting a few in as an experiment. Also, speed tables are different from regular tables in a new important way: They don't have disconnect time banks. Which brings us to...

4. Disconnect time banks. Totally separate from your regular time banks, this is a global time bank that only gets activated if you lose your connection. You can check your disconnect time bank balance from the "Requests" menu.

Those are the obvious things in the update. There are also a number of login security enhancements (mostly groundwork for what's to come), a "Register Now" button from the main tournament lobby, and hopefully some more performance improvements (we're still working on a more complete performance solution). And there are a couple of more minor changes scattered around.

On to the (mostly older) questions:

1. What are your thoughts on the fairly large bot thread (Mr. Gatorade etc etc...)?

- I'm no expert, but I've seen some of the evidence, and it looks damning to me. I can't publicly share that evidence, but I'd be willing to provide someone like Mike Haven with a sample of what we have and he can post his opinion.

2. LAG LAG LAG LAG LAG

- The bad news is that it's probably not fixed for those of you experiencing it (although some improvements have been made). The "meh" news is that we're still working on it. The good news is that now with disconnect time banks you shouldn't get folded out of a big pot because of it.

3. Anybody have table stealing focus issues? Mine seem to steal focus even when the cards are being dealt.

- I think that's an issue with PokerAce HUD, actually. I've heard people say that this happens with PAHUD running and doesn't happen when they shut it down. Maybe this has already been fixed, I don't know. Josh probably knows.

4. 2/4 and 3/6 HU razz please

- Done.

5. Please change the "Highlight Bet Amount" behavior. I understand that people were previously upset that the betting window was stealing focus while they were trying to chat. This is obviously an annoyance. Now, however, I have to click in that box every time I want to type a bet unless I've made another window on my desktop the focus since I last bet.

- Yeah, we're definitely going to fix this. Unfortunately, I don't know when it will get in, as other monster projects have taken priority (see http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/the-big-project for a taste). I'll keep bugging people until it's in.

6. Any chance you could add $33 & $55 - 45person SNG's ???

- Maybe!

7. Also...how about a time bank for those of us who actually like to think our actions though.

- Okay.

8. God no

- Whoops, sorry.

Doug

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2. Hands are dealt faster and the "standard" decision time is shorter (the time before the game beeps at you and starts counting down your rainbow).

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- Yeah, we're definitely going to fix this. Unfortunately, I don't know when it will get in, as other monster projects have taken priority (see http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/the-big-project for a taste). I'll keep bugging people until it's in.

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This has exciting implications.

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You can say that again.

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doug, any idea when the next reload bonus will be??

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Doug, can you create new images for the NL tables buttons, so that the pot and max buttons are bigger. Like each button would take up half the bet box, instead of the 1/3 format with the missing box that you have now. I think it'd cut down on a lot of misclicks.

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So far I hate this update. You really should have people beta test these features beforehand, or ASK your customers what THEY want.

Also, I don't know if this is because of the update but of course, I got lagged out on four tables and was subsequently folded out by the software. I won't even bother sending support an email because it'll take them a week just to respond with, "it was your internets."

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Okay I just got disconnected multiple times. I don't know if this is my connection or a problem at their side. If it is, it's a serious issue.

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Okay I just got disconnected multiple times. I don't know if this is my connection or a problem at their side. If it is, it's a serious issue.

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It happens to everyone right now, clearly a problem at Full Tilt

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LAG is nasty bad with this new update [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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Thanks for the disconnect time banks. If you can't fix the lag I'm glad you at least tried a work around. After not being able to play for the last 2 months due to the lag I will give it another go this weekend and let you know how it goes.

Thanks Doug.

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They're still just for limit hold'em games, but if people think they would play well at NL I wouldn't mind putting a few in as an experiment.

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I love the Stars "fast" NL tables. The fact that "auto-post" is the default and I don't have to sit there while people time out deciding if they want to post a blind is awesome; I hope that is also how the FTP "speed" games work. If so, I would definitely play FTP speed NL if it was available.

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is it still laggy with PAHUD?

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How long until you get some support people that actually accomplish what we want?

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Is there any way FTP can add 1 click reloading for NL/PL tables? Right now it takes 3 clicks.

Another source of unnecessary clicks:

"You have been removed from X waiting list".

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1. What are your thoughts on the fairly large bot thread (Mr. Gatorade etc etc...)?

- I'm no expert, but I've seen some of the evidence, and it looks damning to me. I can't publicly share that evidence, but I'd be willing to provide someone like Mike Haven with a sample of what we have and he can post his opinion.


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DO THIS.

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Doug-

You do realize that when you increase the speed of the deal for cash games you make the same amount of rake, but when you increase the speed of the deal in sit n go's you loose rake (with regards to multi-tablers), right?

Also, the LAG is terrible.

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Doug-

There's a bad bug with the Full Tilt software.

If you're playing a hand and close the table before it fully finishes, the
hand never gets written to disk. This means it's never imported by PokerTracker, doesn't get counted in your results, which makes your winnings wrong.

For example, you call a raise, someone bets, the pot is multiway, you
fold and just close the table while the hand is still going. Because the
table is closed Tilt never writes the hand.

Most of the other sites get this right by writing a partial hand with a "Table Closed" or something appearing part way through the hand.

This is a pretty bad problem for all of us that use PokerTracker to track
our winnings and report our income/etc. I've been noticing that my Full Tilt cashier doesn't exactly correspond to what PT says I won/lost in a session and I think this is why.

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Doug-

Please fix the lobby so I can see only games of the type I want to see. Yes I know there was a lag problem, that makes no sense it can all be done client side.

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Wow. Hook, line, and sinker.

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Doug-

There's a bad bug with the Full Tilt software.

If you're playing a hand and close the table before it fully finishes, the
hand never gets written to disk. This means it's never imported by PokerTracker, doesn't get counted in your results, which makes your winnings wrong.

For example, you call a raise, someone bets, the pot is multiway, you
fold and just close the table while the hand is still going. Because the
table is closed Tilt never writes the hand.

Most of the other sites get this right by writing a partial hand with a "Table Closed" or something appearing part way through the hand.

This is a pretty bad problem for all of us that use PokerTracker to track
our winnings and report our income/etc. I've been noticing that my Full Tilt cashier doesn't exactly correspond to what PT says I won/lost in a session and I think this is why.

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Wait for the last hand you play to finish. Not that big of a deal.

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One feature I would love to see:

If I get stacked at my table, give me a chance to reload immediately before the next hand. Currently it sits me out and then I have to post a dead blind to get back in. Not only did I just lose my stack but I have to pay more to get back in. Thank you.

Mega

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1. What are your thoughts on the fairly large bot thread (Mr. Gatorade etc etc...)?

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DO THIS.

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One feature I would love to see:

If I get stacked at my table, give me a chance to reload immediately before the next hand. Currently it sits me out and then I have to post a dead blind to get back in. Not only did I just lose my stack but I have to pay more to get back in. Thank you.

Mega

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Reload full buyin before the hand in question is completed. When I am all-in, or close to it, I reload so I dont miss a hand. If you win, it doesnt add to your stack. If you lose, you instantly have a stack for the next hand.

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One feature I would love to see:

If I get stacked at my table, give me a chance to reload immediately before the next hand. Currently it sits me out and then I have to post a dead blind to get back in. Not only did I just lose my stack but I have to pay more to get back in. Thank you.

Mega

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Actually any time you go broke on a table it should at least pop up the rebuy dialog, you shouldn't have to hit "Get chips" and it should give you a second to buy in. This would help the game quality A LOT.

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WOW! That is the first time I was rolled. NH, Dough.

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Somebody has to alert NVG to the FTP Big Project.

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LAG is nasty bad with this new update [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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yeah wtf?

You have software that for the most part works great, and then you make an update that makes it almost unusable.

please ROLLBACK!

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Did i just get rickrolled by fckn FTP??

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1. What are your thoughts on the fairly large bot thread (Mr. Gatorade etc etc...)?

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1. What are your thoughts on the fairly large bot thread (Mr. Gatorade etc etc...)?

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- Yeah, we're definitely going to fix this. Unfortunately, I don't know when it will get in, as other monster projects have taken priority (see http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/the-big-project for a taste). I'll keep bugging people until it's in.

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nh

Since the update my eight of spades card has looked weird, it's missing a pip (screenshot - http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y10...htsglitch.jpg) it's no biggie and I've not seen anyone else with the problem, but I might get excited at some point and think I have a pair of suited sevens or something.

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One feature I would love to see:

If I get stacked at my table, give me a chance to reload immediately before the next hand. Currently it sits me out and then I have to post a dead blind to get back in. Not only did I just lose my stack but I have to pay more to get back in. Thank you.

Mega

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Reload full buyin before the hand in question is completed. When I am all-in, or close to it, I reload so I dont miss a hand. If you win, it doesnt add to your stack. If you lose, you instantly have a stack for the next hand.

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When you're making a decision for your stack, you don't want to have to think about re-loading as well.

I agree with the initial suggestion. My favorite is when i'm stacking and about the post the BB so I have to wait for it to come back. Good times.

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1. What are your thoughts on the fairly large bot thread (Mr. Gatorade etc etc...)?

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Doug,

Is there any way you could make a game filter kinda like your MTT/SNG filter? Something to distinguish between PL and NL, 6max and FR, and 100nl from 400nl? Thanks!

Also, hide full tables is a good feature too.

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