The “green cape Super Hero Team” managed to become the 50% of the Last Winners on the index page.
We have injected on the site some counter-measures to reduce the effects. Some pretty yellow variations are also affecting the site, although not as much as the green ones.
The other revolt, originated by the lack of nips is now under control.
Groups feature is coming, but we would appreciate any nice idea that could be included into groups.
You may be a great voter, that’s good, but … if people do not vote positive to your messages you ain’t got no choice. If you get +2 on your messages while other housemate gets always +3, he is going to score more on that parameter. Number of messages sent counts of course but there is a limit,… and positive votes you get from messages count more.
Are you always voting to the same person,… that counts (negatively 
). Are you a down voter? that counts… negatively, and as you know, the 50-50 rule stills around… Are you sure nobody deserves some negative vote? try to balance a little bit, it doesn’t have to be 50-50 but voting every things positive doesn’t help.
There are more than 50 parameters taken into account for the HoH selection… but above ones are some of the most important ones!.
If you are asking your self why you never get the HoH… check the above
We have setup a full new algorithm to take care of evictions, HoH selections, etc within games, it will start to operate within two hours from now. We were not happy with the previous one, even with continuous refinements it was not really doing a good work. The new one takes care of many parameters and based on some AI techniques, I am completely sure it will be much more fair that the previous one. We are on “alpha” still and it means some bugs, glitches, corrections, etc have happened during these days… so sorry for that.
By the way… “Rookies” last for 7 days, the same as the “Newbies”, after some thoughts and changing our minds several times it looked like the best option… but probably once the #6753 ends we can ask the winners about it 
One of the things we got more impressed was with the way people is utilizing the blog posts on Tengaged. We enjoy reading all those and even more reading all the answers that usually the more veterans are giving. It is great!
There are posts explaining how the game is going, new features request and suggestions, thoughts about the site, and even some philosophical theories (We are becoming fans of roly‘s posts!)
We are actually thinking on creating a view with all posts ordered by number of responses and maybe some voting thing too… let’s see.
For the moment we are working on the “groups” feature,… more about it soon
Rookies is opened, along with some improvements in algorithms to avoid some “cheats” as well as some changes with the karma won during the game, I will post more about it later and explain exact Karma that can be obtained in both games, …pssst, the first one evicted in Rookies will get negative karma :b
Now that 2 games are available it will take more time for any game to start… that’s not a good thing. Tengaged is becoming popular, but we haven’t done any effort advertising our site nor will do until we have all our planned features ready, as we are focusing full time on development, but if you happen to have a blog, etc, please spread Tengaged to the world. We will really appreciate your effort. There is a page… with some logos and stuff
Think that we are still on “alpha” release for the site, many new features and improvements are on the way and all your feedback is more than welcome.
Thanks to all of you for your help!!
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!!
Hope you like it
Many of you wanted to continue in contact with some of your housemates after the game. Chiku created the first “after Tengaged game” site.
Thanks Chiku! We have been following it and there are very very interesting conversations between you, ttender and RockGoddess!
We have finally added autorefresh that many of you asked for. Initially we have only setup the autorefresh on those games where you are playing but once we see that it’s working properly and our servers can handle the extra work we will include it to all pages.
Rockgoddess discovered the braided pigtails faster than me witting this post….
In the other hand we also made some changes to the way private messages can be sent, just to avoid sending an unintended public message.
