New Playmaker Beta App

schushoe · **Joined:** Sun Mar 01, 2015 10:59 pm **Posts:** 30

I am so excited that BT can be played within 20 miles of a location! I have ONE site available to me. This is lifting my spirits during some tough times. I hope everyone stays well.

scar · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 6:57 pm **Posts:** 2218

I will see you on the boards !

king vulture · **Joined:** Wed Nov 30, 2016 10:25 pm **Posts:** 30

griff wrote:

According to the picture in the email I received, there are a couple of hot girls playing Buzztime somewhere.

Anybody seen them?

I noticed that too. I’m surprised Buzztime had the money to hire pretty girls for the picture. I guess there are a lot of wanna be actresses in California that you could hire between acting gigs to pose for a photo.

ANON · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:59 pm **Posts:** 2291

Alas, I tried to play tonight, and kept getting kicked off. DROLL played “at” Red Fox too, but had no problem. I think maybe my home WiFi just sucks.

reb6 · **Joined:** Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:53 am **Posts:** 59

I also had problems playing last night. When I would try to log in to play Six, I kept getting the "no games available" message, and the spinning circle. I kept hitting "refresh" but to no avail. Once the History game started, everything seemed to be OK. At least one other person in my geographical area (Chicago) was also having problems.

If Griff is reading this, could you let me know how to insert invisible text that shows up when selected? I screen captured the Brainbuster and Glory Daze games from last Tuesday, and wanted to post the questions and answers making use of this technique.

Thanks,
Reb

BUD · **Posted:** Thu Mar 26, 2020 11:10 am

My wife OPIEE and I both were trying to log in right at the beginning of SIX last night and it took a few trys to get past the "no games available screen". Refreshing did no good. The system must have been busy logging everyone in at the same time.

We got in before SIX started by back backing all the way out to the screen before selecting your bar. Then reconnecting to your bar then "Play SIX" showed. Had to do that about 3 times before it went through. My wife even closed the app and restarted it to get in. Don't give up you will get in. We were never kicked out as ANON mentioned, once in we were good for hours.

We did get in at Stained Glass Pub SS and took 4th place for SIX. Good fun and so glad BT listened to the idea of opening the radius.

Gogetem · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:31 am **Posts:** 789

I had the same problem with getting kicked off even while playing at the site in the past. I had the same problem yesterday, sometimes as well. I got around this problem by turning wi-fi off and going with the carrier's signal. This also worked at the site.

scar · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 6:57 pm **Posts:** 2218

I played a couple of hours of Late Shift with no problems.

ANON · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:59 pm **Posts:** 2291

Gogetem wrote:

I had the same problem with getting kicked off even while playing at the site in the past. I had the same problem yesterday, sometimes as well. I got around this problem by turning wi-fi off and going with the carrier's signal. This also worked at the site.

Good to know—thanks! Unfortunately, my house is in a dead zone for cell service—usually only two bars at most. I’m afraid it might be even more unstable using data.

griff · **Joined:** Wed Jan 13, 2010 11:48 am **Posts:** 114

If Griff is reading this, could you let me know how to insert invisible text that shows up when selected?

Gladly. You just encapsulate the text you want to hide with a color tag and set the color to #EEEEEE.
This should match the background color on the original post. Here is an example: [color=#EEEEEE]Hidden Text[/color]

Quoted posts have a slightly lighter background color so the text will be barely visible.

reb6 · **Joined:** Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:53 am **Posts:** 59

Thanks, Griff. I'll post BB and Glory Daze for 3/24 shortly.

Reb

zzuupp · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 10:56 pm **Posts:** 225

Sweet! My timing of getting a new toy couldn't be more perfect!

Gogetem · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:31 am **Posts:** 789

I couldn't log on to the games yesterday for over an hour. This included 'Six', but I noticed that others didn't have that problem.

liljol · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 8:41 pm **Posts:** 2497

Well, hell. As expected, not all available sites in Buzztime's Backyard kept their BT computers on. :roll:

scar · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 6:57 pm **Posts:** 2218

We played a bit Friday night, and my wife had multiple in game drop outs, then no games available screen to refresh, even after exiting game and starting over.

I didn't have any problems.

zzuupp · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 10:56 pm **Posts:** 225

My only problems on Friday were during: Buzztime Sports & Topix.
The games started with their correct skins without any problems. Questions and answer choices cycled as normal. However, for about 2/3rds of the time I was frozen out of the answers.

I did try a full restart during sports. This got me one answer in. It then froze again for the next question. My restart could have been merely coincidental.

BUD · **Posted:** Sat Mar 28, 2020 1:00 pm

We didn't have any troubles at all on Friday. All went well, got in quick to the Stained Glass Pub games and no drop outs.

Strange how Scar and wife were on the same internet but only one phone had trouble? Different type phones with different set ups?

Home bandwidth, I think, plays a factor in staying connected.

scar · **Joined:** Sun Jan 10, 2010 6:57 pm **Posts:** 2218

Same problems last night. Wife and I have Android phones. Dante posited that perhaps social media notifications could be some of the issues. I am on zero social media platforms so there could be something to that.

Gogetem · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:31 am **Posts:** 789

Scar, if you have unlimited bandwidth, you could try turning off wi-fi and try their signal. Before we were turned into hermits, I had to do that locally at some sites. One of my fellow players was having the same issue and tried doing that. His phone worked better with fewer drops.

MitchWolf · **Posted:** Sun Mar 29, 2020 4:04 pm

I played Late Shift after i update the app.... This morning i played Lunchtime Trivia, Right off the bat i got a perfect score

Hope they get all 8:30p est premium games going on it

Rackme32 · **Joined:** Sat Jan 30, 2010 5:13 pm **Posts:** 272

Looks like they turned the distance limit back on today. I played last night for awhile, but now it says I'm too far away.

bejoe · **Joined:** Wed Sep 20, 2017 1:47 pm **Posts:** 61

Rackme32 wrote:

Looks like they turned the distance limit back on today. I played last night for awhile, but now it says I'm too far away.

Looks like they did it in the last hour. I started a game of lunch trivia around 11:30 CT and got a call on my phone so logged out. When I logged back in an hour later, the distances where all reinstated (instead of saying 0.0 miles for all) and it said I was out of range to play.

Gogetem · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:31 am **Posts:** 789

I have the same problem. I did send an email, but who knows if they even read them.

BUD · **Posted:** Fri Apr 03, 2020 2:09 pm

Is this on Android phones also? I know its happening on iOS phones.

BUD · **Posted:** Fri Apr 03, 2020 2:25 pm

Its fixed at 3:24 eastern.

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