As we did last month, we'd like to introduce some recent changes on BGA.
3D
3D has been introduced 3 weeks ago on BGA. To activate it, you must click on "3D" button on top right during a game :

We want to be very clear about this: we consider that 2D view is better to play online. Please tell us if you think different, but we didn't find a situation where it's more practical to play in 3D. However, we are definitely considering using 3D effects on games from time to time, just for the "eye candy" thing.
Most games are not optimized for 3D at now, so sometimes it looks a little bit weird, but most of the time it's fine and allow us to communicate better on our service. Beside all of this, this is very important for BGA to show everyone (especially, game publishers) that we are capable of having a game in 3D here.
Don't hesitate to give us a feedback on this!
New friends feature

With this new icon on top right, you cannot miss a friend who is online when you are 🙂
This new feature is associated to a new Invite a friend button when you create a new table. This way you can invite a friend very fast at your table.
Soon, we will introduce another additional feature for those who like to play with specific players.
Group list
From Community page, there is now a link to list all BGA groups.
Game lobby interface
The simple lobby design change a lot and will continue to change during the following months.
It's a quite powerful tool now that you are using more and more. It allows you to check your ELO from the lobby page + to wait for different realtime games at the same time, which is pretty cool. Please don't hesitate to give us your feedback about it.

Reputation system change
We slightly changed the reputation system:
_ Now you get a double penalty for leaving a game (-20) if you quit 2 games within 1 week (it was 1 month before). This change ensure that we focus the big penalties on players who really abuse of the system, and are more tolerant with the others.
_ When your reputation is really really low, you get more than +1 when you finish a game without any issue. This way, we'd like to encourage players with very low reputation to recover from this situation.
Game interface small changes
By clicking on players names during a game, you can now access their profile.
Some of you asked us to disable the "Turn based personal notes" popup auto showing when loading a turn based game. We consider that if you take some notes during a turn based game, then you'd like to have it back as soon as you get back to this game, but some of you complained about this. For this reason we'd like to experiment the "non-automatic popup" for a while. Please tell us what you think of this.
Finally, we slightly changed the "Go to next table" button, because a lot of you complained that they were clicking on this button by mistake. We hope that the new design will fix this.
Thanks for your continuous support & feedback that allow us to improve this service!
3D模式、群組清單、好友、通知訊息、聲譽...
繼上個月我們所發佈的新聞內容,同樣的,今日我們想再向各位介紹一些BGA最新的改變。
3D模式
3 個星期前在BGA上已向各位介紹過3D模式。
你可以在遊戲過程中點選右上方的"3D"按鈕來啟動這項功能:
我們認為在進行遊戲時,2D視野是比較適合的,而我們想要更進一步確認這一點是否正確,
因為至今仍找不到有什麼情況是切確需要以3D模式來進行遊戲,若你持有不同的意見,請告訴我們。
然而,我們確實認為有時使用遊戲的3D效果,僅是只為追求「視覺享受」而已。
大多數遊戲目前還沒有針對3D功能進行優化,所以有時它看起來怪怪的,但是大部分都很不錯,並且也讓大家能夠針對我們的服務有更進一步的討論。
此外,這對BGA而言更具意義的是能向外界(尤其是遊戲發行商)展示我們有能力在這裡運行3D遊戲。
關於這點,請不吝給我們意見回饋!
嶄新的好友功能
右上角這個新圖示,讓你上線時能清楚知道哪些好友也同時在線上
在你創建新遊戲時,有個新的邀請好友按鈕會與這項新功能相聯動。
透過這項功能,邀請好友加入遊戲變得更加便捷。
不久之後,對於想要與特定玩家一起遊戲,我們將介紹另一項新增的功能。
群組清單
現在在社區頁面中,新增一條羅列出所有BGA群組的連結。
遊戲大廳介面
簡易大廳的設計有了不少的更動,並將在未來幾個月持續修改。
現在你已可以使用這些持續新增且相當完善的功能。
它讓你能同時等待數個即時制遊戲,也能夠從大廳頁面檢查你的 ELO,這還挺酷的。
還請不吝告訴我們您對它的感受與意見。
聲譽系統修正
我們對聲譽系統稍做修改:
_ 如果你在1周內(以前是1個月內)中途退出遊戲2次,你將受到加倍的懲罰(-20)。
這項修正能針對過於濫用系統的玩家進行懲處,而留給其他玩家較多的空間。
_ 若你的聲譽非常非常地低,你能透過順利完成一次遊戲來得到+1或更多的回復。
我們鼓勵玩家以這種方式來脫離聲譽過低的狀態。
遊戲介面的小變化
現在在遊戲中點選玩家名稱,你可以進入他們的個人資料頁面。
一些玩家希望我們能在他們進行回合制遊戲時,將"回合制遊戲個人通知"的自動彈出視窗功能關閉。
我們的本意是當你參與一場回合制遊戲而接受到通知訊息時,你就能夠儘快回來繼續遊戲,但是有部份玩家對此提出抱怨。
為此日後將試著以"不自動彈出"來做短期測試。
也請各位告訴我們你的意見。
最後,因為造成許多玩家誤會點選而有所抱怨,所以我們對「到下一個遊戲桌」按鈕做了一點小改變。
希望新的設計能能改善這個問題。
感謝各位持續地支持以及回饋,使我們能在服務上做出改善!
