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It would appear that the Player Ratings for new games (such as The War are not immediately calculating). The system shows that I have Rated them, and the list of other peoples Ratings as normal, but the overall Player Rating remains zero.

Same with Randomly Walk 3.

I don't see anything wrong with the sourcecode or in the dev console that's wrong. Everything responds fine for me - but doesn't display on the webpage. It's certainly a mystery. Maybe ratings update every day at the same time trophies are awarded and stuff? It might be a bug or it might be a feature to have the story-viewer run a bit faster. (You know how there was that thread explaining that rating a game takes a while) I didn't pay attention when I played either of the games, but it might be faster. I'll check on a storygame I haven't rated yet - though it may only be for newly created games.


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It seems ratings stay stationary for the time being, and do not display or change instantly. However - I did notice when I rated a game, (when I clicked 1 on the end game page) it instantly took me to the "make a comment" page. It may actually be an improvement in the speed of the response (or still a bug - but alexp said he might know how to do something to speed it up; and maybe he did).

I... What?

In my experience, rating a story-game can change the overall rating instantaneously (depending on how much rating it had overall). Something with 49 ratings isn't going to change based on one rating (though it's a question why it didn't update 278 play-throughs to 279).

It could be a problem with just newly created story-games, such games that were created today. I had to find a game I haven't rated that I could rate quickly to get results :P

Also, ratings may not instantaneously change, it depends on a three-way ratio of number of people who rated the game total : the people who rated it with over 500 points : the average rating.

0 - 499 points = a regular rating
500 points = major strength attained, rating will be useful
after 500 points it steadily increases until 5500 points - at that time, you'd probably be a moderator/admin xD so basically, points also have a say in whether or not 1 rating will overrule many small-strength ratings.

As also mentioned, it might not be a bug - it might be a way to speed up the rating process by updating the story ratings after 1 day (12AM EST) - most likely at the time trophies are updated etc.

I've seen that one of my rating have been able to change a game's overall rating right after I rated it :P

I thought ratings always calculated overnight?

I commented out a call to the "calculate game ratings" function (for [v20140007] Leave Rating Page is Really Slow) because I just assumed it didn't do anything.

Fixing it properly isn't going to happen anytime soon, and I don't like the idea of putting the code back (it takes what, 30 seconds to run?). What about just having the "calculate game ratings" thing happen every 30 minutes?

Then maybe i can add a note to say "it will take about 15 minutes for the ratings to be reflected" or something? (anyone have suggetions on where to put it, or specifically what to say?)

Thoughts?

I told you they calculated immediately!

I think 30 minutes sounds like a totally fine solution.

Can we vote for 15? I like the sound of 15 better...

I think every 12 hours would work, but 30 minutes or an hour are fine too.

Set to run ever 30 min