Tengaged blog

If you see a little icon on the top the page, you are right, finally we have released the internal mail on Tengaged. New users under 20 Karma can send private mails to their reciprocal friends, while users above 20 may send a messages to any Tengaged user.

… and there are still lots of new features comming.

Thanks all of you for your support and help to improve and spread Tengaged!

We have opened the bets for the Rookies games.  The maximum amount to bet is 10 Karma points per game and you may win up to twice what you bet plus some amount depending on other user’s bets. Game’s participants can not bet although they can win a percentage of what people bet on them, more details later.

We have also started to use the security mechanisms for detecting some “cheating” and applying it when enrolling in new games and when finishing a game, etc. Double users may not enroll in the same game now and if not detected during the enroll process their Karma will be getting lower instead of increasing when game is finished.

If you are those who want to get lots of Karma and can’t wait to win in several games, we will open next week the “Bet in rookies”.  Basically in each Rookies game you may during the 1st day of game bet part of your karma to one of the ten housemates. If that one wins the game you may triple the karma bet.

The basic rules are:

- You can not participate in that game.

- Everybody (with karma) may bet.

- Only is possible to bet on Rookies games.

- You can only bet for one participant per game and a max of 50 points.

- The karma you win depends on the final position of selected participant.

• 1st: You get double the karma wagered + % of karma other users bet on the other participants
• 2nd: You get what you bet. You don’t loose karma.
• 3rd: You get half of the bet, You only loose half of the bet.
• Other: You loose all the wagered karma.

- The 3 better participants on the game (1st, 2nd and 3rd) may also get a percentage of karma bet on them.

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1. Positive votes to Private Messages are not allowed anymore. Although positive votes in PMs was not an important variable for the “algorithm” and it was not taking into consideration when 2 guys were trying to cheat by voting positive to each other’s PMs, it was somehow still happening and to avoid confusion we just took it out.

2. As g2bAndrew suggested, in Rookies is shown the total points obtained by the nominees, we will do it also in Newbies next week.

3. We finished the process to check all users using more than 1 account and added lots of security checks.  This information is now used for our own stats but soon we may reduce karma to those users utilizing more than 1 account to cheat in games. In future we will ban these users automatically.

4. Due to this post, we decided to change to n-1 instaed of 3 the number of houseguests involved in POV nomination.

5. Autorefresh is included in all games, not only on those where enrolled.

… and many many performance and security issues that are delaying all our plans

Few days without news, but we have been fixing internal stuff and testing new variations of the algorithm to select the nominees, improving performance, etc.  In the meantime we have also received many great ideas to improve the game and finally we will add some variations to the soon available “Rookies” level game on Tengaged.

Mainly this a brief summary of what this new level is going to be:

- Only players with a minimum karma can play: So hopefully we will get rid of those players that just enroll and never participate on the game.

- HoH: Head of Household. Each day the algorithm will select the HoH. HoH will select the 2 nominees for next day, the third one will be selected by the algorithm.

- PoV: Power of Veto. Each day the algorithm selects the PoV. PoV may take one of the nominees out of the list.

- The game will take little bit longer, initially 9 days instead of 7 days. Karma obtained from this game will be from -5 to +30. Yes, if you get evicted first your Karma will go down. Karma obtained from the #1 Newbies games will be reduced, as well as the daily karma obtained from game participation on the “newbies”.

Remember that we are still on “alpha” release of Tengaged and that means that we are experimenting lots of factors. Changes will be based on your feedback and thanks to all of you who are helping us to improve Tengaged!!

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Hi,

Time is passing and first Tengaged game #6689 will end soon. Snoow is evicted (we will have to check the algorithms again), and hopefully he will post it in his blog, but remember if you don’t have a blog and want to express something on Tengaged, you may now use our very minimalistic “Bauhaus” blogging tool on your “Me” page.

There are things to add yet to this microblogging tools, as the RSS feeds, more editing options, etc…. and that means this weekend we will continue developing.

With only 4 days of Tengaged online we have overpass our expectations, thanks to all of you!. We have been very busy fixing things and preparing the new changes and features for the incoming releases. As you know we are still on “alpha” version and we are open to any of your suggestions to improve the playability of Tengaged.

Below you have some features that we are developing and I would like to share to you to hear your opinions.

1. “Rookies” game. As you know when you enroll you can see that new games will be available. The next game to be open is called “rookies”. It is very similar to the actual one “newbies” although only people with some experience (karma) can enroll. This way we will try to not to mix those who are just entering into Tengaged for the first time, which many of them are not participating at all, with those who have already played and are more active.

2. “Friendship”. We are not those social sites where you may have 2000 “friends” but don’t really know nothing about them. We want to take friendship seriously and really end up knowing well new people in Tengaged. A friend is something more than just clicking a “Add Friend” button, in short future the site will automatically measure some friendship indicators as activity, interaction and how did you get to know him/her i.e. in a game, by invitation etc. Once you have a friend that reaches a certain friendship you will be able to send messages directly, or even invite them to join a new game, etc.

3. “The Big Game”. We will also release a never ending game. It will be the central game in the site, where everybody will be able to vote. 10 people, infinite days. But all of us will vote just as the real “Big Brother” game, the difference is that each day one person leaves, but a new one will enter too. More details soon.

Thanks.