The default game setting should be more natural

[Lys]

@Groin

Are the dot the white stones in the bowls?

Could @Lys be more explicit?

Hi!
The dots or circles are all near each other.
The orange one is huge.
The others are coloured in shades of gray to blue.
They are grouped all together on the right of the big orange dot.

I like your way to read them as white stones inside a bowl, but they were not supposed to be. They are just drawn near each other.
For me, they look like a moon rising behind a big orange planet. It’s just matter of fantasy and interpretation.

The fact is that they are tiny and they are almost negligible against the big one, even when considered all together.

[martin3141]

@jlt

You can’t separate correspondence players and live players since many people play both types of games.

I agree.

@jlt

As you can see, most accounts have very few games, and when people play, they prefer live games.

Fair enough, though maybe accounts that get abandoned after few games are not so interesting and could be filtered out first.

//Edit: If we compare 5 games of 5 minutes to 1 game of 30 minutes, would we conclude that 5 minute games are more popular?

[jlt]

I don’t want to spend time doing these stats, so I had a quick look at players in the group Fédération Française de Go who generally have many games in their history. It seems that a bit more than 1/2 play mostly live games, a bit more than 1/4 play both types of games and a bit less than 1/4 play mostly corrrespondence.
I didn’t look at every player in the group so it’s just eyeball estimation, and also the group may not be representative of all active players on OGS.

[Groin]

@Groin

As of today there are still much more correspondence games on OGS as any other settings.

I feel sorry because that’s not the case. I thought I saw some other statistics once before but my research is vain. My apologies again.