What do you think of blackcats-games

It's a great site with good speeds and a really really lovely selection of content :D

However, their seeding rules are (at least for me) working the other way around. Cause of the seeding rules, I don't dare to download from'em. I've looked at soo much I've wanted, but I can't leech it, cause it will end up in a -week- of seeding. That's not so hard, I can seed for weeks, but if I leech more then 2 things within the same week (which I would probably have done), I'm stuck with another week of seeding., cause you'll only gain seed points on 2 of'em at a time.

Active time - 3 days
Me not being able to get connectable (due to my ISP) - gaining 0.25 seed points pr hour - meaning 40 hours seeding only to seed back for i.e. a NDS game.
I couldn't delete a JAP Wii-game from my drive that I leeched for a friend of mine, cause I had to seed it for first 3 days, and then 40 x 4.3 hours.

Funny thing was, I didn't get this system when I started using the site, so I seeded about 14 torrents for over -30 days-, but when I closed µTorrent, I got demoted due to hit n run.
Why? Because you can only seed 5 torrents at a time to gain seed points :]

I've started to use bitGamer for old games, and ofc general 0day-trackers for new games.

Oh well, if you put aside the seed rules thingy, the site is an excellent source for all kinda games, and a helpful community ;)

Cheers
-Vidde

We have already discussed this via PM but here goes again.

Unconnectable ppl slow things down considerably, so what we are trying to do is to get everyone to be connectable so everyone seeds a lot faster, this will probably never happen though as like you mentioned, some people just cant get connectable for love nor money.

but it is bad so we have to penalize them somehow, and its better than what it was before, unconnectable didnt get any seed points at all.

now there is away around that, and im not getting you to donate, but just the facts.

if you donate £10 for VIP you get 3SP per hour, 36 hours wait time, 20:1 seeder leecher ratio does not apply, Uncon does not apply, and you can seed 10 torrents at once, even though only 2 get sp on them.

we are looking at improving the SP system in the future, but atm its to stop people seeding a lot of torrents (as in 100+) and just getting SP on all of them at the same time, that doesnt help anyone, only the leecher. so we have set this limit to rectify that.

Please, please post this as an announcement. It'll help most of the unconnectable users, and it's for the sake of the whole BT community.
http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-over-ssh-071014/

No stoi, please, do not take my post wrong, I love BC for its selection and speed, but I -personally- do not like the seed point system. If I was able to get connectable, I would've recieved more points, and wouldn't be so dependent on the points to actually download more releases.

Unconnectable users -do- slow sites down, that is 110% correct, but for ppl like me, not being able to get connectable no matter what, it's not working as good as one hope. I'm -not- blaming the site itself, there are no others then my ISP and myself to blame, so don't take it the wrong way, I already told you in the PM I sent =)

Hope you didn't take my post as whining, as you did last time.

Cheers
-Vidde

dont worry mate i wasnt, i was merley explaining why we do that, so other users in the same boat as you, have an explanation.

before i just explained it to you, now though everyone knows (well everyone that reads this anyway lol)

content is great but you can improve the graphics

if i had an invite, id make an account and give my two cents ;)

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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.

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I use Blackcats for PS2 games and PC games, true, and I just use Demonoid for mac games, but all I say, is if they did get more mac games it would be a new resource for mac users since there isn't anything like it, and more mac users would come for it. (which isn't that great of an idea atm, lol) but I personally don't like having to bootcamp every time I want to play a game, so I do enjoy getting some mac games.

As for the new favicon, I was really happy to see that.

But yeah, I mainly use BCG for its PS2 games and it's fantastic for that. Just a fun idea, although seems kind of impossible to control (since it depends on the users and not the staff) but if games could be tested, for instance with a chip and with swap magic, and get a pass or fail that could be in the info. Or users could have separate ratings for how it works with with different mods. You can often find any problems in the comments but it sometimes takes a lot of searching for it and that would be convenient for people looking to download something. It's no a necessity but it could be a nice feature.

well for old games, thats a possibilty, we did have another upload page on the tracker many moons ago that had specific spaces for that, but then we changed to a custom tracker, the coder left our staff and had to go back to torrentstrike/tbdev so its not on there anymore. but new scene releases its impossible for unless the group thats released it says it in their info.

but then again, i have a chipped PS2 that can play anything, i do not have hdd or swap magic, so even if i was to upload an old game, i couldnt tell you what it worked on and what it didnt work on.

It is my nº1 source for pc and psp games...Great place to be...:)

Great content, I love the site. I've been able to find both new and old games that weren't available on any other torrent site.

As a few have mentioned before me, the page layouts you can choose from aren't all that and a bag of chips. I find myself either searching all over the page for what I'm trying to find, or being blinded by the color schemes. :(

the best game tracker , bc :wub:

i think blackcats has the best content for games. only thing im concerned about is the look, thats all. the other stylesheets are ok, but maybe have like a contest for it or something. the colors just seem too dark than what i am used to. nonetheless, its the best for all gaming consoles. ratios, seedhours, and staff are great.

Great gaming site, best in its class no doubt about it.

Only thing i'd change is disabling the need of javascript to access the different browsing menus.
It gets old really quick to always temporarily allow BCG in firefox's no-script plugin.

Sorry if this was suggested already, but when it comes to uploading how about creating a common template regarding the torrent description.

It seems that there is no consistency from one torrent to the next. Some uploaders give you lots of great info about the torrent, for example: System requirements, whether it's retail, demo, cracked, already or comes with the patch, etc etc; and then other descriptions just tell you about the game and nothing about the technical side of running the game.

Just a thought....

Im pleased someone had nice words to say about the staff, i was starting to get a bit worried :)

As for the java, thats the only way to have the drop down menus in alts skin. we do have 2 other skins without the drop down though.

I think you will usually find, if its a brand new scene release of any type of game, it will have very little info, as sometimes, there isnt any to be found on the net at all. and if its scene the uploaders dont have to check it first, they just get it and upload it.

If its an old scene release, or a home rip, descriptions are, and should be a lot more detailed, as there will be lots of info on the net regarding stuff like that.

I hate. I have been banned twice even if I had good ratio and did a huge contribution to Blackcat v1. Always used personal original discs with special care to backup process ; 2x reading.. etc, Then, v2 arrived with upload locked until 10 Gib up?! To me, its like a no-sense. I did my best to down then upload popular stuff, get to the 10 gibs mark :noes: account deleted. Emuparadise all the way.

upload locked till 10gig???

not sure what you mean mate lol

if you got banned because you had a low ratio, tough, you should get banned if you have a low ratio, especially with SP on the system.

Sod it going to bump this, saying as though we have been open for a few months, others might want to put their 2 cents in.

Themes: we have got a competition atm, once we get the server running the way we want it, we will get those on the tracker, so at least the themes will be better.

Con/Uncon: we are talking about this, not sure on what the outcome will be though.

Just re-read a post above. you can seed 10 at a time, only get SP on 2 at a time, so i dont know why you would be scared to download anything.

but we are in discussions to even increase this somewhat.

i was too going to say about new themes . New and Stylish Themes should be really cool . you probably know that so many ppl love to see their respective best sites to have a great design/Theme . Nowadays its almost become one of the most important factors along with Content and Quality .

my gaming pc f***ed up, i gave away my gaming account to friends, and deleted BCG account....i am through gaming, for now at least.

During my stay, i enjoyed the site. The content is truly admirable, speed is good, and on top of that it's easy to seed as well (plus not to forget the SP system).

But then, i thought SP system was lil more complex. There were many (comparing it with other site's policy) different criteria and maybe some folks were scared to download lol.

Other than that, as everyone else said, working on neater style sheet would be nice.

and one more, although i don't recall exact details, but i thought some of the stuff were over worded and thus lil hard to understand. Again, i don't really recall where exactly it is....maybe in seeding history table....or maybe the description about SP.

Once again, the content is amazing and the forum seemed friendly as well...and that's all what matters :thumbsup:

The design is no worse than any other site particularly.
All torrent sites are horribly designed IMHO.

Functionally BCG is excellent. You have that area (games) pretty well covered and are miles ahead of anything else i've seen.

I think its a great site.I like the site layout and I don't have a problem with keeping a good ratio and I enjoy the conversation in the forums.

Well there is a reason for our SP system the way it is, and not based entirely on Seeding time for 36 or 72 hours.

lets take a basic 4 gig torrent.

you do not upload any of it at all, for whatever reason.

72 hours + 40 hours you have to seed for to get a 1 ratio on that torrent.

But if you upload 3 gig within 3 days.

72 hours + 10 hours to seed for, so imo, its well worth uploading as you will be seeding for a shorter time.

And yes i agree the SP FAQ is pretty hard to follow, but thats why we now have an easier to understand verion of it. SP FAQ for Newbies.

basically covers the same things, just a lot easier to take in.

And i believe themes should be last on your list of priorities, Security and getting the server to handle the load, should be your first, once you have all that the way you want it, then work on the aesthetics of the site.

also Tbdev based sites are pretty easy (not very easy) to change the stylesheet, torrentstrike which we have, is a lot harder and time consuming to do.

I love my BCG acc, one of my most treasured accounts. The seed point system is awesome (there is no excuse to have a bad ratio) and speeds are great as well.

It's a great tracker...altough...i cant help myself i think you guys shouldnt open sign ups...but it's your choice and i respect it.

I think the themes are pretty lame...sorry stoi i said it like that...when i registered i had the black one...God it's ugly...it was impossibl to read the FAQ! then i tried them all and i kept the white one...cause i like the banner and at least i can understand stuff...altough it's the same as WildBytes and some other trackers with that theme.
i think some new themes with some pics about games or something would be great!

and i think you could have way better pre-times....i dont care about them but maybe some other people does...and it's wierd cause maybe you have a pre time of seconds (today with th Hulk game) or sometimes a big game is uploaded hours after some 0 day trackers like ScT

The content is great...i'd like to see some more Ps1 games for my emulator :D

cheers!

Well, BCG is probably my most valued tracker, and the only big flaw I see with it that the open signup is the only way to get in. I understand stoi's desire to get free of all the '1337 high-level' bs that surrounds a lot of sites, and I think that's fine, but it seems to me that you could accomplish the same thing by giving out a lot of invites to PU/SPUs and allowing public giveaways. I guess BCG staff doesn't like invite systems because people will trade or sell invites, but removing invites just means people will trade or sell accounts instead. Meanwhile, if you are a PU and you have a friend you think will be a good member, you have no way to get them in.

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Well, BCG is probably my most valued tracker, and the only big flaw I see with it that the open signup is the only way to get in. I understand stoi's desire to get free of all the '1337 high-level' bs that surrounds a lot of sites, and I think that's fine, but it seems to me that you could accomplish the same thing by giving out a lot of invites to PU/SPUs and allowing public giveaways. I guess BCG staff doesn't like invite systems because people will trade or sell invites, but removing invites just means people will trade or sell accounts instead. Meanwhile, if you are a PU and you have a friend you think will be a good member, you have no way to get them in.

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hmm, just tell them we are open lol (but we are not atm).

Invites can go wrong as well though, if we say you invite a cheat or whatever we will ban your account, no one uses them, if we say we wont, everyone gives them away and you still get trading/selling of invites/accounts.

The one big drawback of opening up is the amount of dupe accounts we get, sign up, download 2 games, hit and run, sign up again on a different IP. but we do catch most, its just hard to keep them out lol

one good thing about that i suppose is, it gives the members we have got, a better chance to get a good ratio, more leechers = better ratio for those that do care.

If users that got in played fair and only created 1 account, i would probably open full time, and get rid of this so many signups in 15 minutes, and the captcha thing, but 70%-80% do not play fair, so it has to be this way im afraid. (we did use to have 100,000 members, in 3 months that was down to 60,000 and 99% of those were dupes or cheaters :( )

as for the fast pre-times, we have never, and never will be a 0 day site, ok if we get fast pre`s, great, i wont complain, but its not what we are striving for with the site, and any other site we may work on in the future.

BCG by far the best games tracker as i rely on it for all my games as you offer nice speeds. And the homerips are great as often it is hard to find old games.

i manage once to get in. i've put my account on park cause i had to getaway for a fews days and i don't want to lose it, but when i came back my account was closed due to inactivity. i ask stoi why, i learned the hard way that the only way a park account gets closed its when it has never been used. ok fine thats fair, so i manage to get in again, but never got the confirmation email(just my luck) cause they had trouble with the return system... and never heard from stoi again like i had leprosy lol

i sure hope i will be more lucky next weekend and get the confirmation email this time

Like i said in another post, when we have just been open this past week, it was just a test to see what was going on with the confirmation emails.

We now know a little bit more and are working to remedy the problems.

Those that did get in, great, your in. those that did not get the confirmation emails (there was a lot) just try again when we open again (once the bugs have been ironed out)

I like BCG, though I haven't found I use it all that frequently. I only d/l pc games really, and a lot of them tend to be retro ones, for which I find another great site, UG, suits my needs a little better

The SP mod is excellent, possibly the best implementation of a bonus system I've seen, though it does take a little while to get your head round it properly when you first come across it. Its actually pretty simple, but it is also quite different from how most sites do it, which is why some initial confusion might come about with some people.

Content is obviously fantastic in its area, though I would like to see slightly better torrent descriptions on occasion. The site layout is fine, I'm much bigger on functionality than pure aesthetics, but as is mentioned above, a bit of work on some new stylesheets or whatever wouldn't hurt.

The registration policy is a plus afaic. As undoubtedly the foremost games tracker, an invite system would only lead to lots of trading and people getting accounts who have no intention of using them, or will not appreciate them. Although being open in some way does lead to its own problems, at least those who really want in and will use & respect an account can register, and it will not be used as currency by those only concerned with levels or their next trade. I think the policy of opening, but making registration a little tricky is a good one, though I would favour a signup process more like torrentbytes' than the one I've read BCG was using recently.

Overall I think you've done an ace job with your site Stoi, long may it continue :)

i know stoi, i will try again next weekend, i was just pointing out my badluck, and my concerne about being almost treated like i had some kind of a desease, which leads to this question, why didn't you reply to my pm? i've only pm'd you once and i waited patiently(1 pm not 2, 3 or 10 for that matter)? i'm not agressive or annoying or anything like that, in fact i'd like to think of my self like a very comprehensive person, as long a we communicate ;)

about this bug(s), is it the fixed ? can i try my luck this weekend?

I actually like the themes on BCG because of the "retro" look. So far I haven't really needed to fully understand the SP system because I usually just seed the games I download for a really long time and I eventually get a good ratio on them. One thing that troubles me is that for some reason I can't login to the forums anymore :/

@ gennesuke sorry i did not reply, but we must have had 1500 people at least, coming into IRC and saying they did not get their email, i also got a lot of PMs on here about it, so it was not personal i ignored you.

@ tusks

Logout of the tracker, clear your BCG cookies, log back in to tracker, go to forums, you should be signed in.

don't worry mate, i kinda deducted it was for that reason, although i have to admit not at first, cause obviously i didn't knew about the bugs and i didn't push it anyway.

now what i'd love to know is the bug(s) fixed? do you think i can try my luck this weekend?

if its fixed and we are open, yes you can try again, if we are not open though, you cant.

To be honest stoi, your site is one of a kind. I dont give a damn about the interface all i care about is the content. I only got in around one month ago when you opened signups and have been going there almost everyday since. I was happy to find that even some of my favorite older games were well seeded there which means whatever system you have in place (SP) for seeding,works.

What i would like to see on your tracker are game rips by people such as Skullptura and dopeman. I do not know if this is possible or is in conformance with BCG uploading rules.

Take a bow for creating the site :)

Its a gr8 commmunity however last 2 years whenever you are upgrading/moving servers that time i lost my PU accounts:( from that onwards i am not intersted to join becoz i found games in TB, and in another general tracker. And also i lost the spirit of playin game:D.
However your community is a gr8 place for games:yup: but it shud be stable in future. :happy:

its been stable since Dec 2006, we have lost no ones details in this new move we have just done.

You have to understand we changed tracker codes the last time, and it was nearly impossible to convert the old tracker db to the new tracker db and vice versa when we went back to TBdev/Torrentstrike, hence why you lost your PU status, but i lost about 600 gig uploaded as well.

so maybe if you did join again, you would be surprised, and we are not stuck at 11,000 peers now with server loads in the 13-15 bracket and slow site anymore, we have moved up in the world. 70,000 peers and tracker loads of under 1 now. (and has been like this for ages)