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Originally Posted by YouSureSir
Now scripts, they keep all the tables open and watch them and instantly sit when rec sits. We are talking about under a second, like .1 of a second. Now that's crazy. I often wanted to use camtasia or something when i'm starting tables to video this but I dont have camtasia on my computer. But often times the scripters get false triggers and you'll be sitting at a table to start it and instantly 4 of them snap sit and then they realize and leave. Or when a rec sits down, to see how instantly they join is only something video could show. If there is anyone less lazy then me that has camtasia on there computer I think a short video of this action would be a great demonstration. I might try to do it next week if no one else has when I'm back playing.
I'm a reg that recently came back to party after a few months break and the blazing fast seating scripts make
me feel uneasy like some three-legged antelope as a pack of cheetahs close in. I can't imagine recreational players aren't equally freaked out when
literally 2 seconds after they click "buy in" at a 1/6 the table the table is filled with 6 players, each new player popping in at warp speed to sit successively to the next available left-most seat of the rec player.
Scripts are insanely predatory, cause paranoia in the player pool, and give the regulars that use them a completely unmatchable advantage over those that don't. Something needs to be done about them ASAP.
It doesn't have to be a technical solution- Party could change their policy to forbid seating scripts. This would effectively discourage their use since Party would then be able to threaten account closure if players were repeatedly displaying the unmistakable tell-tales of seating scripts.
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Originally Posted by Lessu
Colette,
Also, since you introduced the $1000 cash bonus, shouldn't it have a bit higher $/point ratio compared to the $200 one? Now it's there just to save a few clicks?
I want to add to all the other players agreeing that this flat rate structure makes very little sense (except to save clicks which nobody seems to care about). It certainly doesn't reward the highest volume players. I was close to purchasing the $15k incentive play bonus under the old store but held off after it was implied that the new store would give better rates. I now regret that decision since my effective rakeback as a high volume player seems to be reduced.
I don't see any reason to believe the "trust me the promotions will make up for the difference between the old and new" line since the only proffered examples so far only "make up the difference" for very low volume players, not former palladium elite level players. Also, since we were misled about the store rates in the new system, why would Party not also be misleading us in the exact same way about any promotions that supposedly make up the difference?
We are poker players- our entire game is based on rational skepticism and not believing what is represented if it looks like deception. Right now Party is like a player who bluffs far too often - they lose credibility because they are always over-representing their position. It might work a few times with newer players who haven't seen it before, but the longer you play with them the more obvious is becomes that they have nothing to back up their line. The only way to rebuild trust in the situation is to stop promising what you can't deliver and start showing down what you are representing.