» Improvements on Strip-Poker.xXx

The launch of Strip-Poker.xXx version 2 has been quite a success so far. Most of the players like the new gameplay and the modifications we made. However, a few dysfunctions have been reported and the most problematic was without doubts the score system. Many players complained about it being flawed and unfair. In this article, I will explain how we rebuild a new score system and I will also introduce some important changes in the strip-poker game made at this occasion.

EDIT 12/19/2013: please look at the documentation, information given here is outdated!

Players seem to like the idea of weekly and monthly score boards to win. In the first place, the score system was operating in a very simple way:

• Players who close a room are ranked by the profit they made in the room
• Players get points depending on their rank and on the number of real players they were playing against

This system had two bad flaws:

• A player could join a table at the end of a room and hope winning a few points without having really played the game.
• A player who would leave the room before getting his points would automatically prevent other players from getting some more points because their score was tied to the number of players around the table.

It was so absolutely necessary to design a score system more robust and more fair for the strip-poker. The new system will only give points to the players who meet these 3 conditions:

• The player must be sat at the table at the end of the game
• The player must have played at least 60% of the game
• The player must have made a profit greater than 10

The second point need some further explanations: each time that cards are dealt, the program will count the players in the game. Getting the ratio of involvement of a player is then as easy as dividing the number of hands a player played by the number total of deals in the room. It is now impossible to get points without playing at all.

The idea of winning more points if the player had to face many other players has been kept but these players are not anymore those who are in the room at the end of the game but those who played more than 30% of the room.

At last, players are still ranked on the profit they made in the table.

So, here is the new table to calculate the scores:

So, winning points with this system will be harder but also more fair.

Since the version 2 was released, an other big problem has arised: there are always players in free rooms and these one are even full sometimes but there is hardly more than one player in premium rooms at the same time. Premium members have then to play in free rooms to play against other players.

In order to fix this issue, a very big change has been decided: from now, all the players without exceptions will be able to enter and to play in premium rooms but only premium players will be able to see the videos of the girls once they took off their first item of clothing. So, when a game will start in a new premium room, all the players will be able to play and see the videos of the girls (including sexy show and strip-tease). But once a girl will have lost an item of clothing, videos will only be displayed for premium members.

This shall allow premium rooms to have more than a single player while still keeping the premium status a real interest.

The game will now only offer one free room and 2 or 3 premium rooms. In case the rooms capacity is exceeded, new premium rooms will automatically be created. At last, a room without players for more than one hour will be automatically closed.

Last little improvement, a sound alert will now warn you when you've only got a few seconds left to play. Many minor bugs have been fixed, for the loading of videos in particular.

As always, let us know what you think and report us all the problems you will find. We always read you messaged even if we haven't always the time to reply to all!