What do you think of blackcats-games

**unattended** · 10-17-2007, 05:25 AM

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.

**Daniel** · 10-17-2007, 05:29 AM

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

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.

**stoi** · 10-17-2007, 05:29 AM

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.

**Grind$oFine** · 10-17-2007, 05:45 AM

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!

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.

**unattended** · 10-17-2007, 05:47 AM

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.

**stoi** · 10-17-2007, 05:53 AM

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.