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re: Archive Not Archiving
[40928] by "deni" (netcache-3003.bay.webtv.net)   on Wed 11 Aug 2004 22:59:11     [ reply ] [ up ]
whew! I just counted all of the quit games for this month.  I thought there m-i-g-h-t be a couple hundred before I started counting; there were 566!

These games that were all 'obvious' quits -- under 400 score, mostly 0's -- but there were a couple with scores of 500+.

I don't know how many games have been played this month, but it seems like deleting the quit games would free up a heck of a lot of space.  

Your assumption was correct and this plan sounds like a good plan ;-)
re: Archive Criteria
[40929] by "Mike" (pool-68-160-208-141.ny325.east.verizon.net)   on Wed 11 Aug 2004 23:12:14     [ reply ] [ up ]
How about this? Point value aside, only archive either complete games or quit games that have fewer than 10 tiles left. If you can, dunno.

This will eliminate zero-score games and expert games that are partially completed (even up to 60 or so tiles) but then quit due to impossibility of high score. But it would keep legitimately quit games due to a stuck tile.

I still vote for the "higher than 1000 only" BTW. At the very least, it might encourage players to become better to see their effort in the archive.