beaker wrote:
Having been on this site for about 4 years now, am amazed at how many changes have occurred and lately that changes are occurring on a regular basis.....
Yes, I've been putting a lot of time into the site lately. For example, the changes
required to support a "twin no-op" were substantial.. (I'll put up a test twin no-op
as a user puzzle soon).
beaker wrote:
it wasn't so long ago that the puzzles were changed which I didn't like because it favored the users who are smart enough to do a large puzzle in about a 1/6th of the time that I could and now you want to keep adding larger puzzles and a greater point value to them......
Hopefully it is slowly converging to something reasonable. Awarding more
points for the 15x15 makes sense I think.
beaker wrote:
at one time I could average 60 points/day and now am lucky to get 50+ points on some of the days in the weekly cycle......and now a no-op 7x7 twin
Probably the main reason for this was the removal of 1-2 regular puzzles each day (when compared
to the time when there were up to 13 puzzles on a day). And the no-op twin is there to make life easier (!)
I'm estimating it'll be solvable in 10-30 minutes, instead of the 1-3 hours required to solve a 15x15.
beaker wrote:
......I keep hoping I'd be able to get "more" out of this site than "less"......there has to be a "middle road" for the "brainy users" and the "not so brainy"......and with these changes I just don't see this occurring
!!!
Are there particular puzzle types you'd like to see more of?
Patrick