What do you think of blackcats-games

I am probably setting myself up here for a great big fall, but i would like to get a general oppinion on what users realy think of us on another forum.

Dont worry i wont go scouring blackcats for your usernames, you are free to say what you like.

But please, make informative posts, either good or bad.

If we just get posts like,

Its great or its shit, it will just mean we cant improve at all.

so try to be as informative as you can, and if you have any suggestions to make us better, then im all ears.

PS: i will come in and defend us or the reason we have a mod on or something else, obviously, but i wont go banning accounts.

bravo. i think this is a great opportunity you offer here. people will be much more open than on your board, believe me.

i can't tell you much about your tracker though, because frankly: i just don't need it. i'm not into games at all. :P

It rocks. Content is fantastic.

I think the aesthetics are awful though. Things seem just a bit too spaced out and the white website is overly bright and has little or no character or originality. Same as WB.

I don't really care that much though as the content is exceptional. I'm not there to hang out; I just want the files, so I'm happy. :)

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Originally Posted by Polarbear

bravo. i think this is a great opportunity you offer here. people will be much more open than on your board, believe me.

i can't tell you much about your tracker though, because frankly: i just don't need it. i'm not into games at all. :P

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same here. Im not a hardcore gamer and pick up a mainstream game here and there but they are availible on non-specialty trackers like yours. you guys definitely made the right move closing signups -- you will get better users

well we do have 3 themes to choose from.

the silvery white, which came with the tracker (hence why you have probably seen it elsewhere)

topaz, a black and yellow one. done by an ex staff member

alt, a black one but with drop down links at the top of the page, done by our coder, but i have to say when he done the theme, he was brand new at everything, even html and css.

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Originally Posted by stoi

well we do have 3 themes to choose from.

the silvery white, which came with the tracker (hence why you have probably seen it elsewhere)

topaz, a black and yellow one. done by an ex staff member

alt, a black one but with drop down links at the top of the page, done by our coder, but i have to say when he done the theme, he was brand new at everything, even html and css.

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Yeah, but I think the white is the lesser of the evils. :ermm:

:lol: fair enough

tbh the workings of the tracker have taken priority over the look of the tracker, but once we get all that the way we want it, im sure a few more, better, themes will show up.

but like you mentioned, aesthetics is one thing, content is another.

Content is amazing. The new forum is much better than the old one. I don't post a lot, but it's fun to read some of the threads there. (and there are some very nice guides)

My only critic would also be with the overall looks of the site (especially the forum banner and the default avatar shown in forums posts). But that's a minor issue really.

In short, the site is just great for my needs.

its gr8 site no doubt about it but i think you think about ur ratio system .we all want to seed as much as possible but it is not always possible to seed 72 hrs

well like i said in another thread.

we take the sp off altogether, but still have the hit and run rules, and you have to seed back to actual leechers, you could be on the torrent for weeks/months.

and its not 72 hours constant, it just 72 hours active, and yes even i have to abide by the same rule, and i have to turn my PC off on a night, so 72 hours takes me a week, and i agree it is bloody annoying, but better than sitting on it for months, hoping a leecher comes along imo.

I would agree that the layouts (all 3 options) are butt-ugly, but that's just appearance. You could probably run a contest where the reward is just upload credit or something and get better layouts from your users. Content is very good (although I did sadly have to download Civ IV: Warlords from another tracker recently because BCG didn't have it) and speeds are very good. Single sign-on for the forums would be nice. Having certain torrents be free-leech once in a while is always fun, which I don't think I've ever seen at BCG.

I would really like to see a good design for once ;) For the longest time I thought that there was no logo in your stylesheets until I visited the tracker with another browser once and noticed that you named the logos "banner.gif" and "blackcatsbannercopy.jpg". Pretty much every ad-blocker will disable those files outright and there are some important/useful links in the logos which shouldn't be missing.

The content is very good for all kinds of game consoles (and PC games) and it is easily the best collection of games on any tracker. What I'm missing a bit are games dox and trainers - there are quite a few scene releases from groups like PiZZADOX, BReWErS, JMP, etc. A not so professional gamer like me needs those sometimes if he doesn't want to kick and kill his PC in frustration :D

Your seed points: that's a unique system and you should hold onto it. Whether you should make some changes is another thing ;) In my opinion, the whole thing should require a much shorter FAQ than your corrent one and that tells me the seed point calculation is too complicated for the average user to understand it easily enough. On a torrent tracker that works as an archive of sorts it is a good thing to keep people seeding for some time, I don't even mind the 72+ hours.

you sign in to the tracker and are auto signed into the forums, its the only way we could do it with the way the cookies are done on both tracker/forums.

sorry to dissapoint you but free leech will never be on BCG, i just dont agree with it at all, like i dont agree with wait times either, so neither of those you will ever see on BCG.

well we do have a game dox category, just no one either requests them, or no one uploads them. its usually game manuals that get put in there.

Fantastic site, really fantastic, the content is fantastic.
EXCEPT
1. There's a Mac games section and 3 Mac games??? BCG would be top-notch if it had a fantastic selection of mac games too. I know that Mac's aren't exactly the top choice for gaming, but there are more games than that! :lol:

2. (Just as other have been complaining about) I think it's desperate for a new design/design contest. It could use a new layout possibly, but it really would improve with just a new banner. I personally use custom ones with Greasemonkey because I can't even stand the default.
I understand plenty of other things go into a tracker other than looks and I <3 BCG, but I hope new themes/banners come soon. :D

Weird...it didn't the last time I logged in but did this time...who knows...if you say it's supposed to work that way I'll take your word for it.

Your response about FL isn't a disappointment...I have plenty of buffer as it is. I just know on sites where I don't have a huge buffer it can be nice to see FL torrents once in a while to help out my ratio or just to check out something new without worrying how it'll affect my ratio.

well there was an outcry for months about mac games, so i gave into it.

and like you said 3 mac games have been uploaded since, the demand just isnt there, especially not now with intel based macs with bootcamp or whatever its called, you can play windows games on a mac now.

as for the design and banners, that will come eventually. and i have had loads of contests in the past, no 1 person took us up on it, we even have our own designers forums now, and best thing thats come out of that so far, is an idea for a new favicon lol

but they are brand new forums, so maybe in time we will get a lot more posts and ideas in there.

Awesome site, every gamers dream :) i mainly use it for my PSP games.

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Originally Posted by Grind$oFine

1. There's a Mac games section and 3 Mac games???

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No kidding? When was the third game released? I must have missed a meeting...

bc-g rawk... usually download psp iso from there...

i think the site is great , but it would help if u had a classic game section.

nice to see you care for opinions stoi :)
+1 for better layout, otherwise it's a really cosy tracker. i keep loosing my accounts for inactivity tho, guess i'm not much of a gamer :)

blackcats-games is a supberb site, one of my favourites, and i treasure my membership there.

the only "complaint" i would make, and its minor, is the interface, it looks dreary all in black. EDIT: just found the silvery white stylesheet - thats so much nicer, it should be the default. :D

the SP system is great, ignore the criticisms about that.

but the content and the long life of the torrents is exceptional and as im there mainly for the files, im a very satisfied user.

thanks for providing such a great site.

well done.

Love this tracker. Can`t find a bigger collection of games anywhere else. I will be an active user for life..

I think it's a great (if not the best site) for game..BUT i really don't like the closed invite system. I've had a couple of friends ask me to join (They keep good ratio) and cant unfortunately..perhaps make invites harder to acquire or somethiner?

Great site, with great content and speeds!!!!

The site is ugly as hell (needs a complete revamp), but the content is second to none. I don't think anyone has the variety of games that you guys have...

I love the content, thats all that matters to me. The design is ok, there is a lot of uglier ones around....:whistling

site is awesome,they have new,old,very old game.Everything you need...only bad thing is that they will never have freeleech..new forum is ok,but IMO old one was better.

well i suppose we cant realy do much else about content, if you request or the uploaders upload it, then thats all we can do.

and we have saturn/dreamcast/roms sections, so for old systems im not sure what else we can do.

and k i get the general idea, the layout is crap lol

when I go to forums, I cant find a link back to the main interface of the tracker..
only that, and overall the site is really really nice! :)

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if your using the inframe url we have, then the banner or links will be there, if you use the none inframe, then you have to have 2 tabs open.

this is still being worked on though, and im sure you will see a lot of new changes to the aesthetics of both forum and tracker in the coming weeks/months.

and if you just want brand new scene releases then in all honesty you can get them anywhere (and probably faster after pre then we get them tbh) but we pride ourselves on not just the new games, but the old games as well.

I wouldn't know... my account got disabled for inactivity (I guess?).

Which kinda sucks. Oh well.

well we do have a realy long pruning time.

60 days unparked
90 days parked

so if someone cant even login to the tracker once in 60 days, and no offence to you, but do we realy want them hanging around.

and im very surprised this has got so many replies, and not many negative ones, apart from the aesthetics which even we know are not up to scratch.

Hmm.. well I don't remember going 60 days without logging in. Could you check into the reason my account was disabled then? Username is/was josh2.

It's great site as for me huge content and speeds not bad i don't have problems with ratio esspecialy when there is seed points you doing great work GOOD LUCK

Best games tracker, period.

Seed points rule!

It's great place,I've got some ps2 stuff wich I coudn't find anywhere else. So as far as content i concerned BCG is the best. And after geting used to that seed points, ratio is easy to maintain.
BCG FTW :)

BCG is a tracker of a kind....specific for games of all sorts...even underground-gamer is not doing the same thing...they r only concentrating on retro. So the fact tat it is unique in wat it provides makes BCG a very good tracker. I personally like its content n speed but i don't like the interface:P anyways keep it up at BCG.:01:

i love blackcats, that's the first tracker i joined and it's really the best gaming site!

i gotta admit that i'm happy that the seedpoint system is down, the 72-hours seeding time is fine
i may be lazy but i don't like to check all the time the amount of seed point i have on each torrents to know if i can stop it.

with the seed time rules, fast and easy to know when you pass the hit and run boundary

and btw, the topaz black stylesheet ain't that bad :) there are way some worse design around (cough...tvtorrents...cough...)