The mystery of the dissappearing slots in the duels

Sir Ibi · Post by **Sir Ibi** » 16 Jan 2005, 00:23

Ok i just tried to duel a car, but i was told that all 150 places were full. OK that's fair enough, this is a very popular site afterall. So i go to the showroom challenge page, and i read:

Currently running: 25 :: Upcoming: 108.

Now i havn't done maths in a very long time, and when i did i wasn't much good at it. So i used the very little maths skills i have, and used a method called addition. I even got out my calculator to work it out, and yeah the answer i got was 133. If that is wrong then please by all mean correct me.

So then, where are the other 17 slots (uses calculator just to make sure). - <<< for this calculation i used what is called the subtraction method, which is a little more complex.

Let me know if any of you guys can help, thank very much.

Wolrajh · Post by **Wolrajh** » 16 Jan 2005, 03:36

I think they are challenges waiting to be accepted or rejected... Well it's my guess they actually take a full slot like any upcoming challenges. With that difference that they won't always take about 100 hours to free their slot, in the case they are rejected

Lord_Jereth · Post by **Lord_Jereth** » 16 Jan 2005, 09:14

Been trying to get one of my cars in for a challenge all day long, no luck. Is there a trick to it? Am I missing something? How do I know when one of those backed up 150 slots is vacated?

Wanting to take part,

LJ

master m · Post by **master m** » 16 Jan 2005, 14:10

Sometimes there are even more than 150 slots filled (eg 156). How is this possible

master m · Post by **master m** » 16 Jan 2005, 15:48

I just had a look (AGAIN) in the SRChallenge mainpage and I read

Currently running: 30 :: Upcoming: 103

So that makes 133 slots filled and 17 open.

I wanted to challenge a car and then it said all slots are filled

I agree with what "Wolrajh" ("challenges waiting to be accepted or rejected")

I've also been trying to challenge some peolple for a few weeks now, but I never got the chance to do so.

Sweeper · Post by **Sweeper** » 27 Jan 2005, 11:55

Me too, I got a 7 I want to challenge as my first duel.
But it is all filled up, drunk.
I even waited for one to go away, and then hit challenge in the instant second it went completed, no go.

Maybe we should have a some sort of "Holding pattern" where you can add your challenge and as soon as a slot is availible it will automatically entered.
There will be a lot of lag though (Long time before the challenges pops out) but it can be reduced slightly by increasing the timing intervals on the duels.

Post by **Bojan** » 27 Jan 2005, 12:12

Sweeper wrote:Maybe we should have a some sort of "Holding pattern" where you can add your challenge and as soon as a slot is availible it will automatically entered.

If we do that, the holding patter will get filled up and you'd have to:

a) wait to get in there
b) wait weeks for your duel to get on

The way things are currently, it should be a problem to get in. Duels are less than an hour apart (expect for once a day when they're up to 10 hours apart). All you have to do is check when most will end and send your challenge then.

Sweeper · Post by **Sweeper** » 27 Jan 2005, 12:17

What I ment by holding pattern is that you kind of send a request that you want to join a duel on the nearest availible slot.
The pattern is infinitly large but like you said, b) will be in effect unless you drastically changes the timings between the duels. 5 minutes for an example, or 3.

Post by **Bojan** » 27 Jan 2005, 12:25

But that would mean 288 duels a day.
And that's way too much

It's still to be decided if the system will be changed so the max # of duels in a day would be 48 and a duel stared on every 30min.

Supra-man · Post by **Supra-man** » 28 Jan 2005, 05:19

that may be a good idea^^^
i like the sound of it.