Your "total points" are what go to 100 when you finish a game and have less than 100 total. "Total points" includes points invested in ongoing games.

If it refreshed your available points to 100, then you could just start a password protected game with a buy-in of your all of your available points so they were at 0 right before ending another game.

Also, and not sure if this applies to you, if you leave a game before it is finished (CD), you do not get the points back if you are under 100.

I apologize, but it really does appear that there has been some sort of glitch and this fellow has been shorted a bunch of points.

Someone please double-check my arithmetic.

His profile reads Total points: 109 D

Your arithmetic is incorrect.

I think we need a "mark as sarcasm" button.

Let me try to run through again. Yeah, but why does it say 44 next to his name? He has no resigns and he's not in any games. Something is not working right, or is misleading. I'm still confused. I feel like either he should have some resigns (which doesn't looks like it applies), or he should have 109 next to his name, or he should be involved in some games. It really doesn't make any sense. I apologize if I'm being a bit thick, but could someone try to explain where I went wrong?

Anonymous games, Al. anonymous games. Unless you are a mod or you are him, you won't see his anonymous games and the points invested in them. Otherwise it wouldn't exactly be anonymous.

Total points - available points = points in play

Oh, cool! Okay, I'll try to create a game to test that theory!

Hmmm, I created an (anonymous) test game, and now it's showing that I'm in a game on my profile. How many games does it say I'm in when you're viewing my profile?

Al, of course you can see the anonymous games *you* are in in *your* profile. I'm in one now, but *you* won't see it in *my* profile.

For the record, this is what others see on your profile.

Rank: Diplomat
Position: 450 / 9577 (top 5%)
Available points: 933
Points in play: 0
Total points: 1093

Game messages: 9737

Game stats: ◦Defeated: 21 ( 18% )
◦Won: 7 ( 6% )
◦Drawn: 60 ( 52% )
◦Survived: 27 ( 23% )
◦Total (finished): 115
◦Playing: 0

From that, we can deduce that you have 100 in anonymous games, but they could all be in one game or they could be spread across multiple games (as many as 100 if you took over a bunch of 1 SC abandoned positions).

@Draugnar - thx bro.

just one minor point though - i could have done without the condescension. I get it, you think it's perfectly obvious. I don't. Apparently at least one other person agrees with me.

If they are points in play they should be listed as points in play, if you only count the ones you can see in play, that actually gives you more information about how much points invested in anonymous games, information you're not supposed to know...

Does that make sense?

The issue is the design of the security prevents a user who isn't a mod/admin and isn't the playe rin question from seeing *any* information that pertains to their participation in an anon game until the game is over.

But you have the information. All they're doing by not showing the points in play as points in play but as points removed from available points, is telling you how much points are invested in anonymous games.

By virtue of the fact that don't show, you are correct. But if they added them in, then you could just as easily go through the active games you can see for that player and add up their buyins to determine how much was in anon. Honestly, the only thing that matters is that the system doesn't reflect how many anon games there are so you can't use the anon buy-ins plus the count to try and figure out which anon games they are in.

What would be the best solution is to never reimburde for CD points but to also not reflect how many points were lost to CDs. Then the difference could be anon games *or* CDs.

Or do like the anon game message timestamps and just give an approximation of the total points.

Players actually bother looking this info up? Less nerd stuff more dipping would be a better use of time IMO.

The system could also just subtract out anonymous investments from total points reflecting a lesser amount.

"just as easily"

That's where we disagree Draugnar. I think it's at least a bit harder to find out by looking at active games. Slower at least.

Slower, but not harder. But the phrase is a colloquialism. It isn't to be taken literally.