Award better quality play rather than encouraging high stake gambles hoping for a lucky draw.
Make new stacks much more expensive, e.g., 10 hearts, 20 hearts and 40 hearts. New players would be granted enough initial hearts to keep playing, but if hearts are more dear players will be less inclined to go all in on a weak hand. Reward players for time in a hand and money won, e.g., award extra points and hearts for being in a room 100% of the time, despite their standing - will encourage players to stay in one room rather than jump around and to stay in a hand the whole time means you played well even if you did not have the most winnings; award more points and hearts for players who accumulate more than $750 and or more than $1,000. This will encourage earning money instead of just chasing a low probability hand and it rewards a winner for defeating multiple players even if none of them survived for long in the hand.
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I subscribe to the idea of awarding better quality play than blind "All-in"s based on luck.

1. The cost of new Chips should definitely be more expensive. 10, 20, 40, 80 Hearts and so on... is a great idea, plus it goes very well with my previous suggestion to Award Hearts to the Runner-ups in the Rankings (read and reply to my suggestion about Podium Hearts Rewards). With these two changes we'll have better quality play and more fierce competition since everyone shall want the Hearts rewards from the rankings.

2. The final Room Standing must be revised for sure. Right now the standings are based on the Profit you make in that room but instead, as Melman said, should be based more on the Time Played in the room. You don't have to award extra Points and/or Hearts to the ones that play more in a room but you can use a simple formula for the Final Room Standing. I came up with this formula that combines both the Time Played and the Profit in a room, more important being the time played...

At the end of a game Multiply the Percentage of the Time Played with Five then Add the Profit and the Number resulted Divide it by Two. This way the Time Played is more important than the Profit, while both are considered to determine the Standing in the room.
Here's an example:
Player A has played in a room 78% of the Time and made a Profit of 384. Using the Formula above he has a Final Room Score of (78 * 5 + 384) : 2 = 387
Player B has played in a room 21% of the Time and made a Profit of 520. Using the Formula above he has a Final Room Score of (21 * 5 + 520) : 2 = 312.5
As you can see Player A that did play for a longer time in the room wins the Final Room Standing despite having lower profit made.
To make it even more important the Time Played you can change the 5 in the formula with an 8 or even 10, perhaps 5 times might not be enough in certain scenarios but the formula is great. Combines Time Played with Profit and since the profit can be made with a few lucky draws, but the time played means a player was good during the game, to be able to survive in the game for that long, it's normal to be more important. We have a win-win situation with this formula in my opinion.

3. About awarding more Points and/or Hearts to players that have a Profit higher than $750 or $1,000 and so on, I think this is not necessary because the profit is included in the formula for the Final Room Standings.

Instead I have another idea:
Increase the Points and Hearts Bonus according to the Number of Players in a Room. As it is right now, have the Game Engine record all players that play in a room for more than 20% and at the end of the game when the Final Room Standings are made, reward 1 Extra Point & 1 Extra Heart for each player that was in the Room for more than 20% or 30% even if that players lost all their Chips and didn't get to finish the game.

Here's an example:
In a certain room at the end of a game Player A & Player B are the only ones left. In that same room, during the game, another 3 players have played but they didn't survive the game and lost all their Chips. After calculating the Final Room Standings give an extra Bonus of 1 Point and 1 Heart to the Winner for each of the players that did play in there for more than 20% or 30% of the time, in our example it's 3 Extra Points & Hearts. Also give the Runner-up in a room a Bonus of Only Hearts but not points for every other player that did play in the room for more than 20% or 30%.

If you implement this system you'll not only make the game much more appealing because of the Extra Bonus Rewards but also the players shall be more interested in Staying in the same room and Not Jumping around from one room to another. This Bonus Reward System complements the Final Room Standings formula from above!

Also another good thing comes with those changes:
Players shall be much more interested to play against each other when choosing a room (because of the bonuses) and not only against the AI's (the girls). The more players in a room competing against each other means more fun and bigger rewards and fame. After all if a certain player only wants to strip the girls and not playing against any other real person, then has the possibility to create Private Rooms and watch the girls in there for as much as he wants to...

That concludes the Suggestions in this Thread. You guys, read and say your opinion on the suggestions both myself and Melman have said in here and come up with even better ideas and new things to be implemented. Julien, you should really do those changes since I gave enough examples to make it clear those are Good Changes plus it isn't difficult to implement those nor is it expensive at all to make those changes to the game and the website. Implement those ideas, and then I have ready many more very appealing changes to improve the overall experience on strip-poker.xXx for everyone...

Best Regards!
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Hi guys,

Thank you for your suggestions, interesting ideas! I definitely need to talk about this with our team :).

One thing I was thinking of is to change the betting system that way:
- choose only between 10, 20, 30 or all-in (you can't choose the amount of your bet anymore).
- limited number of "all-in" per game, let's say 3 or alternatively, 3 "free all-ins" per games allowed and then each new one costs you a few hearts.

What do you think of this idea? My concern is that many players complain about the people who play all-in all the time. Of course, it's not strictly poker rules but as you stated yourself, this is much more of a video game.

Julien
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Hi, Julien

One of my planned suggestions was pretty much the same as yours, HeHe, but as I said in my previous posts I was waiting your reply to those (and I still do, please read and respond to my other posts) before I continue with many more ideas. If you like what I have to say then I'll keep going, if not then it's better not to waste our time, right? :)

Here's what I was thinking (it's like your idea but with few additions):

Updated "All-in" Rules

1. Disable completely the "Blind All-in", the one at the start of a Hand.

2. The Max Bet should be $30, on the same system as is in the Speed Rooms.

3. Allow only 2 "All-in"s during a Game (two times is enough, once you can do it based on luck, then save your other one for a good hand or a good bluff :D).

4. Make any other "All-in" after the first two times cost 2 Hearts (one Heart would not be enough because you can get it by joining a room with one of the girls already "naked"; for two Hearts you must stay in a room until the end or at least play in two different rooms even if you look only for rooms with "naked" or "1 item" girls). Of course there's always the option to Buy Hearts.

There's also a "5th Point" but I'll write about it in the future when talking about the Player's Level. Yes, we'll finally USE the Level for something !!! :) I do have about 3 or more ideas as to how to make use of the Level System and they all go together with each other even if they are about different aspects of the game but related with the Player Level...

Now that I mention it, I do have ideas of absolutely every aspect of this game, either major or minor changes, but before I keep going I want your feedback. If you like the ideas so far then I keep sharing them, if not, then let's not waste anymore time, HeHe. A little reward for the trouble is also expected :) (read my other Post about it)...

Keep in touch
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I definitely like the ideas. I can't promise they will be implemented but they're really worth a meeting with the team. Keep rolling :).
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It seems to me all of this could be solved by going back to the basics of poker. Poker is a moneygame, protecting your stack is everything. When first launched this game honoured this basic idea, but as money was pretty useless in the game it soon led to problems. That's when the idea of hearts were introduced as a fix. So instead of adding to the fix I suggest you think about how to make protecting your stack important in the game.
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The easiest fix I can think of: If you go bust you can't play for xx min's.
It's like you had to go to the ATM for some fresh cash to sit in again.

Don't start messing with the all-in option. All-in is a vital part of no limit texas hold'em.
If you can't go all-in pre flop or whenever you think it's a good move, then you might as well play another game.
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That applies only when real money is involved.
If every other dumb player Level 0 comes and "All-in" at your table and about 5 of them join the game, then the whole experience gets trashed. It doesn't matter how good of a player you are if everyone around you goes "All-In" mindlessly, Pre Flop! For this simple reason you can't go back to the origins of this game. Too many players don't give a heck on their stacks because is virtual currency or are too stupid to care. The AI's (girls) play much better than more than half of the players here.

That's why we NEED Changes fast, otherwise it's all Exploit & Bugging which most Top10 ranked players do !!!
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More girls that you can play and see them naked for free would be awesome
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Of course it would! Unfortunately, we need to earn a bit of money to keep the website running. I'm sure you'll understand that...
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To take away from table hopping just to manipulate the points system in final standings, either lock the table out when they do that to start on another table or have them lose their chips when they come back to the table they previously left or deduct a percentage of points they get in final standings for time played at one table.
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or create an option to have 2 or 3 windows open to play the tables all at the same time.
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What you call "Table hopping" is building a stack, exit the room and come back at the end to try to get a few points, correct?
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That is correct and/or hopping from seat to seat in hopes to get better hands if one seat isn't going a player's way.
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I hear you Cruel. It pisses me off too when I find myself surrounded by mindless "all-in'ers", but my point was to move to make the "game-money" matter to the players. If an all-in lost means you cant play ANY room at all for a period of time, I guess most players would feel less inclined to rely on dumb luck.
I can think of no other way if we still want it to have anything to do with poker. Is the problem really players who don't know how to play or is it those who DO know how to play but change their style to max points?

BTW, when hearts were introduced in the game I believe it was stated that you'd lose your stack in a room if you tried to reenter after having entered another room. Is this not the case?
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No, you keep your stack. But may-be it would be a good idea to loose it if you go to play in an other room.
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I think it would definitely be a good idea. I didn't know you could do it, I thought a player lost his stack in one room if he joined another room.
Now that i learned it can be done I tried it and, sure enough, soon found it's a common practice amongst the top-ranked players. Stopping this behaviour would probably have a positive effect on other problems as well, as players would have more reason to stay in the room and actually play poker.
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miožnost have to play 3 zasebou with each of your poker player. out of the game for free mime požnos see at least a photo Vise vislečené players. add a screen with a rule cards and cpostupek (variants card víher) 1 ... 100 AAA, KKK, AKQJ..a OTHER SIMILAR.
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Ok, so "table-hopping" just made sense to me.
Didn't know it could be done, sorry to see it can. Stop that!
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