Load balancing programmers?

[matgb]

Facebook | Scrabulous:

Need another day.

What we did last night did not work, we need another day to get this running.

There's no point in letting everyone try to play and face errors, so we're closing it for some more time. Please check back in tomorrow.

Any programmers with experience in load balancing please email fb.scrabulous@gmail.com . We can do with some support in that area.

Sorry folks ... trying our best to give you the best.

Because, and I know oyu're out there, his addict needs his fix. And, you never know, there's a chance I'll get a win rate approaching 50% at some point before hell freezes over...

Comments

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

* seconds this request *

[cosmolinguist]

I've only been playing a week and already am getting withdrawal jitters. :)

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Gawd yes. Am very twitchy without it.

[matgb]

Um, yeah. I thought I'd start a game. Um, sorry about that, they were on the rack in pretty much that order...

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

ROFL! Ok, that sets a challenge I guess...

[mapp.livejournal.com]

Well, you'll probably beat me on this game, what with "zones" as your opening word. I'm not sure I agree with the dictionary it uses though; you shouldn't be able to play Louis as a word!

[matgb]

It's the official Scrabble tournament wordlist, and yes, I was surprised I could play it, I tried it on a whim because it fit.

But yeah, Zones was a good one; OTOH, Jennie recently hammered me with 3 bingoes in one game, things can turn around quickly.

There's also a knack to placing stuff in two-player, I was really bad in my early games.

[mapp.livejournal.com]

Regarding placement, I tended to always resort to trying to block off the triple word scores, which tended to lead to rather low scoring games (and annoying folks).

I must say that I'm not fond of the "double word score for the first word" rule. I know it's a rule that's in Scrabble, but.. ah well.

[matgb]

I think it makes sense in that first word gives you less options, you can't build off letters on the board, you can't use any of the double letter scores right next to it, etc.

Haven't seen a noticeable advantage to first player on avarage, really; it's a lot more about who gets the triple word scores later.

Also?

[sexygoldfish-uk.livejournal.com]

Another addict holding up his hand...

All they need now is a dictionary that allows words I use regularly.... such as Sith, Drokk, Tardis and Vorlon!

[matgb]

Wonder if they'd take submissions for a new 'fun' dictionary, take out all the weird words that no one knows from SOWPODS, and replace them with stuff from films &c that we do know. Possible I suppose...