January was the first month I was able to watch games closely. Last year I was writing my book and didn’t have much time to police things. Last year was filled with a few people causing trouble on the site and making things fairly miserable for most players. What I saw this month is that these players where not showing any indication of stopping even though I had asked and warned. These guys had even been banned before and had pleaded for another chance only to screw it up again. The result? A tough month for me but I’m happy with the outcome:
| 1st | Linch | 245,045◆ | ↑5,994 / ↓3,296 | 245,045◆ / 8◆ |
| 2nd | montecarlo | 231,337◆ | ↑6,434 / ↓3,410 | 239,783◆ / 4◆ |
| 3rd | kam|k? | 188,463◆ | ↑6,801 / ↓3,296 | 188,463◆ / 0◆ |
| 4th | yellowfin | 183,872◆ | ↑5,851 / ↓3,337 | 187,947◆ / 122◆ |
| 5th | dasfury | 170,993◆ | ↑6,442 / ↓2,920 | 180,508◆ / 467◆ |
| 6th | vicsf | 142,848◆ | ↑5,708 / ↓3,296 | 151,357◆ / 0◆ |
| 7th | nexon | 141,361◆ | ↑6,612 / ↓3,337 | 144,730◆ / 80◆ |
| 8th | JeremyS | 114,629◆ | ↑5,943 / ↓2,776 | 119,082◆ / 604◆ |
| 9th | Vohaul | 112,004◆ | ↑5,071 / ↓2,776 | 113,113◆ / 0◆ |
| 10th | Snews88 | 111,897◆ | ↑6,222 / ↓2,941 | 115,517◆ / 343◆ |
This month also pushed me to add a new feature for Feb. KDice now detects if you are teaming up with certain players and restricts you from sitting with them for the rest of the month. Early tests showed this would only affect around 1% of the players. I’ll keep my eye on it. It will definitely create a new dynamic.
Also new for Feb:
- Flag sync bug is fixed
- The flag is now bigger and more noticable
- Table size is now show in the Change Table dialog
- Table size gets slightly bigger at each different level
- Starting dice variance increased
- Moved back to zero sum for the upper tables – this also means January’s scores may need to be adjusted along with career stats. I’ll probably wait until the end of this month to see where things should go.
- Stats on leaderboard that require a minimum # of games use the average # of games played per player as the minimum instead of 5. At the end of Jan the average games was 60 (yes, 800 games is excessive)
- Better leaderboard stats!
- Most Wins – top five total 1st place wins for the month
- Most Dom – highest average dominance share for the month
- Most Aggressive – highest number of attacks vs defends
- Most Defessive – highest defends vs attacks’
- Refill dice are in the message log at the end of each turn
- Luck table more accurate… should fix the 49% luck average.
Also, members now get 2500 points to start the month and there is now a 3 month member option for $10.
Finally, you probably noticed by now that there is a KDice blog. I probably won’t have much to say during the month so I encourage people to apply to be a writer for the blog. If you think you have something interesting to say on an ongoing basis send me an email and I’ll create an account for you.
