What do you think of blackcats-games

[Vidde]

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

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

[stoi]

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.

[TheManMKD]

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/

[Vidde]

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

[stoi]

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)

[smirnoff]

content is great but you can improve the graphics

[donvito]

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

[Grind$oFine]

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.

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.

[stoi]

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.

[Remi]

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