What do you think of blackcats-games

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Originally Posted by integral

Yeah, most sites enjoy when users seed lots of torrents for a long time.

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Honestly when have we just followed what everyone else does.

Someone does something, most of the time the majority follow (freeleech, golden torrents, 2* upload, let you seed as many as you like, blah blah blah), we have never had any of these ever.

We tend to do the total opposite of the norm, even the bonus we are giving out tomorrow is not the "usual".

You get 20% of what you downloaded added to your actual upload. which in turn increases your Global.

Because lets face it, you can have all the seedboxes in the world, but if no one downloads, what good are they. and those with SB and 500 buffers and 10gig downloaded in 2 years, do not really need a bonus anyway.

The SP system was born from the Karma point mod, we put that on, it got abused, within 20 minutes it was taken off, 3 days later the SP mod was born.

Honestly, if another tracker has done it before, its not for us. (even if it works for them).

and our ideas are usually that insane, no one in their right mind would copy them lol

But they work, OK if torrents died out after a month on the tracker, or if the vast majority of the torrents over a month old went at 1KBs then I would agree something is wrong.

But even I have downloaded 16 month old torrents and got over 1MBs download on them, and yes even I was bloody amazed at that, now I am not that naive to think every torrent will be like that, but the vast majority are, it is very rare we hear of a slow download.

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Originally Posted by stoi

what would you rather have 50 seeders giving 1KBs each, or 5 seeders giving 100KBs each.

I know which i would rather have.

just because a torrent has a lot of seeders, does not mean it will go fast, just look at public trackers for that, 3,000 seeders and 20KBs download.

It works, its worked for the past 2 years, we still have torrents on from 2 years ago that you can get 900KBs on easy, so why change it, not that we would anyway.

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you see the same speeds on year old torrents on sites that keep track of users total seeding time aswell :)

pleased for them.

Honestly i do not give a toss what other trackers do, we do it our way, if you dont like it, dont let the door hit your arse too hard on the way out, its that simple.

strange how you go from being interested in getting feedback about the site to "hey if you don't like it don't let the door hit you in the ass"


next are you going to threaten to start disabling people for giving their opinion in the thread where you asked for it ?

Well sorry but all i am hearing in this thread is, Other trackers do it this way so should you.

Well hmm no we shouldnt.

If you can come up with some unique things, great, but not just other trackers have this, why dont you, other trackers let you do this, why dont you, like i said, i dont give a toss what other trackers do, they do it their way, we do it ours.

Both may work, but the most important thing, ours works, if it did not work, i would be the first to change it, but it does work so why fix it.

And all you done was ORDERED ME TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE SEEDING LIMIT.

if you are not aware writing in caps is SHOUTING, and i do not take kindly to anyone, TELLING ME WHAT TO DO.

Stoi, run YOUR site the way YOU wish. I kind of like the fact that things are done differently there. Like you said it works and that is ALL that is important. My one comment I have (and it's a minor annoyance) is that when you go to leave a comment on a torrent that you are downloading, you really can't see the comment box. Did I miss a setting or is that way for a reason?

If your using alts skin its probably that, probably just a css problem or something.

and btw i started this thread 11 months ago

17-10-07, 05:23 AM

so maybe i do not want any feedback now lol not my fault someone bumped it.

i apologize for raising my voice i was simply adamant and wanted to make my point

apology accepted.

I usually take criticism on the chin when its done the proper way, but your post just riled me up the wrong way lol

Like i said there are ideas abound to change the seeding limit slightly, whether any will see the light of day though is another matter.

There is even an idea or 2 to turn the entire ratio system on its head, but again, not sure if they will ever be put on the tracker.

There is one thing you can say about us, we are not scared to try something different, look at the SP mod and the referal system, if they do not work at first, we tweak them until they do, and if they never work we take them off, karma mod for example.

@stoi

good u have started this thread i always wanted an answer why my account was disabled in bcg, what is its inactivity period is it too less or 42 days.....if it is 42 days i think i shouldnt have been disabled........actually i love bcg and everything about it(dont take it in a sense i am requesting it again) ...........but the point of discussion is if the inactivity period is less than 42 days and the ratio counts after 1gb it is very harmful for new users.....
sorry i didnt read faq thoroughly in bcg assuming it will be same.....

its 60 days unparked, and 90 days parked.

i wonder then why u guys disable me......

not a clue, but if you were disabled more than 60 days ago, your account is long gone.

ya that is for sure i lost the account when u had open signups

did you use it in your first week of joining.

If you never used it, it would have been pruned from the db after 7 days.

maybe that might be the problem first 7 days yes i didnt use that i guess........

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Originally Posted by yakz091

maybe that might be the problem first 7 days yes i didnt use that i guess........

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So can I ask whats the big deal about losing the account? If you didnt use it in 7 days, then you most likely dont want/need the account; and possibly was lining up a trade for the account.

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Anyway.. I got BC-G first day of that weird on-off open sign up thing... Kept it for two weeks, but then got some financial problems and had to sell my 360. I deleted the account as I hoped someone else might get in through sign ups. Now I have it back and am looking to get in again once this refferel thing becomes active... :D

my only complaint would be the overall look and feel of the site isnt very appealing. actually bcg is the only site i will use that is setup this way, i just find it ugly and navigation seems like a hassle. i had to recover my pw the other day because i had to login to the forums after i was already logged into the site(this is mainly my own fault for not knowing my own pw but it logs me in automatically so taking the time to even guess it would have taken much longer). forums built directly into the site are much nicer imo. i dont know if it can be done with stylesheets, i dont think it can so it probably wont happen, but a website setup more like the other better sites out there would be great imo.

im just a bitch when it comes to aesthetics but staff(you) work hard and are great, the content is great, and although i dont use the forums they do seem active. so the only changes i would want are visual changes and an invite system for PU's would be great, i have a friend who has wanted in for a long time but i cant really do anything to help him because it seems like its never open and i dont have any access to content to be an uploader, so i cant really get him in.

ok, if you have a 0.7 actual ratio, member 6 months, badge of honour, you will get 5 referals when they get put on. (user and above)

As for the forums, i absolutely detest the TBdev default forums, i just cant stand them, and obviously IPB is not built with TBdev in mind, so it had to be hacked together.

You should never sign into the forums, always just sign into the tracker, and you will be auto logged into the forums, if you do not like the inframe version, then go to http://www.blackcats-games.net/forum/ as that is not inframe and is by itself.

We will never ever go back to TBdev default forums, just because i cant stand them im afraid.

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So can I ask whats the big deal about losing the account? If you didnt use it in 7 days, then you most likely dont want/need the account; and possibly was lining up a trade for the account.

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Lol I have torrent accounts I have not used in six months. I only use torrents when I need to. For everything else there is usenet. I have had many accounts got disabled for inactivity. I just like to keep the ones I think are worth it though.

any idea on when referrals will be in place? i didnt even know i had a hit and run but im taking care of it now so i meet all the requirements.

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Originally Posted by aysomc

any idea on when referrals will be in place? i didnt even know i had a hit and run but im taking care of it now so i meet all the requirements.

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stoi's been saying september 15th, so probably february 2009.

well hopefully when the fake page is on, so the 15th September, but they may go through some testing first, before we release them to the masses.

They are already on the tracker, i can generate one now, problem is, there is no where for my or your referee to input it to get into the site, its all on the fake page lol so without the fake page no referal system.

but then all of this is in the forum, honestly i have no idea how anyone can like the default TBdev forum, its the most ugly unprofessional piece of shit forum i have ever seen lol

The one thing I don't like about the ratio system is that it's a zero-sum game. For every MB that someone uploads, someone has to download it. I just find that rather odd. I'd love to see someone modify the upload credit permanently so that uploading is a wealth-generating activity. Say a modifier of 1.1 or 1.2, so that uploading is slowly, constantly generating more MB to be available to download. My ratio is over 5, so it's not like my ratio is hurting or anything, but it's just something I'd love to see.

i think black cats games is the best tracker for games,keep up the good work that you do :)

to stoi

i say a redesign of the whole website would be good idea to add to your list of improvement :happy:

i guess its just a matter of taste then, i prefer forums like ftn's. clean and simple

and overlord things like multipliers are presents that shouldnt be a constant thing. share 1:1 or go to usenets, and tomorrow stoi is giving everyone a present so take whatever you get from that and build on it. honestly i have never once felt sorry for someone who cant maintain a ratio because even with 30 kb/s upload i reached PU at bitmetv(known for being hard to upload at) with a 3:1 ratio.

not sure what you mean. but we do have the SP mod, you could download a 60 gig pack, seed it for quite awhile obviouly to no leechers, and still get a 1:1 ratio on that torrent and the 60gig will be added to your global ratio.

honestly sometimes i think the SP is to easy, We never ban anyone, or if they do get banned, they bloody well deserved it, but because its so easy, not many donates lol cant win. damned if we do and damned if we dont.

well honestly the tbdev forums is 1 page of code, thats it, 1 bloody page, its horrible to the extreme, cant have subforums, modding it is a nightmare, searching it is a nightmare, everything in 1 forum so 30,000 threads in the one place, grr i bloody hate the thing lol

or you can have a couple of skin that people can choose

every body have different kind of taste

on what the tracker or the forums?

Tracker go to your profile, 3 skins to choose from.

Forum bottom left of main page, drop down with the skins in, we have 5 skins for the forum.

we even have Russian language for the forum, and probably more to follow.
we have our own Wiki on the forum, everyone can update the game reviews and other stuff. only got put on yesterday though.
We have the member teams in the forum
We have the IPstore
we have the arcade, not working yet but will be
we have the army core system, again problems but we will get it to work.

and a lot of other crap im going to throw on lol

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Originally Posted by stoi

on what the tracker or the forums?

Tracker go to your profile, 3 skins to choose from.

Forum bottom left of main page, drop down with the skins in, we have 5 skins for the forum.

we even have Russian language for the forum, and probably more to follow.
we have our own Wiki on the forum, everyone can update the game reviews and other stuff. only got put on yesterday though.
We have the member teams in the forum
We have the IPstore
we have the arcade, not working yet but will be
we have the army core system, again problems but we will get it to work.

and a lot of other crap im going to throw on lol

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as for the skins,on the tracker and forum would be great

more skin to choose from would be great,but you dont have to listen to me,iam only suggesting here

wow that alote great stuff,i say the arcade will be the main thing people would like to see

well like i said on the tracker

ICGstation
Topaz
Alt

Forum

Sub Black
Aurora
Black
IP.Board Pro
IP classic Blue

thats the skins, and our tracker skin competition finishes tomorrow, so expect some new skins on soon.

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Originally Posted by stoi

well like i said on the tracker

ICGstation
Topaz
Alt

Forum

Sub Black
Aurora
Black
IP.Board Pro
IP classic Blue

thats the skins, and our tracker skin competition finishes tomorrow, so expect some new skins on soon.

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iam only making a suggestion

that good news about getting more skins :happy:

Yeah but we did have 13 on the forum, and anything we added, it took 13 edits of the skins so we got rid of 8 of them.

so we just cant have to many skins on either the tracker or the forum, because if we add something, editing the skins takes more time that putting the mod on in the first place lol

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Originally Posted by stoi

Yeah but we did have 13 on the forum, and anything we added, it took 13 edits of the skins so we got rid of 8 of them.

so we just cant have to many skins on either the tracker or the forum, because if we add something, editing the skins takes more time that putting the mod on in the first place lol

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i understand ;)

keep up the good work you and the rest of the team are doing :happy:

I think the main one reminds me of milk. Possibly leftover milk in a bowl of Frankenberry cereal. It's not bad, really.

hardly anyone fiddles with skins, so you should just pick a good one for default

content speed and the like are ok.

site rendering/page generation is really slow... graphic could be better too (personally I'm not a fan of trackers with 999 diff styles... a tracker is identified also by its own style :) )

We believe its slow because these servers, we have only have 5200rpm hdds, i am getting new servers with 7200rpm hdds, so hopefully that will make it a bit faster, whether it will fix it completely is another matter though.

can`t say a single bad thing about it but don`t brag about it just keep up the good work

I don`t think i have ever bragged about us, I started this thread 11 months ago because i really did want to know what members thought of us away from on the site, then someone bumped it yesterday, then someone else ORDERED me to change something that will be a back step for us IMMEDIATELY.

I dont think I have ever said we are the best games tracker in the world or stuff like that, and even when slip wrote that for the uploaders on the news page i had a slight cringe but let it go.

So my view on that is, I do not Brag at all, I was just pointing out that what we do works, if it did not work, then i would change it, but it works so why change it.

But for the time and effort we have put into this, even if i did brag, i think I deserve to brag a litle bit, even though i dont, its just not in my nature, but I will defend us and what we do, and come up with counter arguments.