I have a suggestion to make which I believe isn't too much to ask. In the "TO DO" section you get… - Feed Post from timlarsson to beeant
I have a suggestion to make which I believe isn't too much to ask. In the "TO DO" section you get a red dot with "Weak entries to improve (to good)". I would like to add (or have an option to add) a green dot with "Good entries to improve (to excellent)". Considering that you somehow keep track on the good / weak / excellent status of vocab and kanji, and have that functionality for the weak ones, it shouldn't be impossible right? :)
I do have a few more ideas but I don't want to choke you with a lot of ideas, haha. I'll let you know if you want them.
I do have a few more ideas but I don't want to choke you with a lot of ideas, haha. I'll let you know if you want them.
posted by timlarsson
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There's a big problem with your suggestion: It is currently completely impossible to change a "good" entry to an "excellent" one.
Excellent is when you have answered a question correct "100%". If you've ever answered a question wrong, then that question will never be able to be "excellent" again. You can answer a question correct 100 times and wrong 0 times, then if on the 101st time your mouse slips, then that question is now "good" forever...
I have one question I've answered correct 328 times and incorrect 1 time. I answered it wrong on the fourth time I encountered it, because I didn't read the question and answers carefully enough. It was a ridiculously easy question. It's status is still "good" 99%; it is technically 99.7% yet it doesn't even round to the nearest whole number. xD
@mog86uk oh really? Well that's sure a big problem then haha! I didn't realise it worked that way, and now I'm amazed at the amount of excellent entries I have!
Then I'd suggest being able to get questions up to an excellent level by having above 95% or something like that.
Hmm, the problem would be that it would be exploitable though. Answer wrong 5 times, and you'll have to answer correctly 95 times to get it up to 95%, and if that's the only word that you'll have to work on, you'll get a 95 combo and a lot of exp for answering that word alone... hmm..- You only get combo in Practice anyway. You wouldn't get all that much EXP by answering it in a quiz.
More to the point, you only earn EXP for the first 29 times answering the question correct.
For example: that question I've answered 328 times, I earned EXP up to "29 correct : 1 wrong", but the next time answering the question onwards I got "0 EXP" every time. The reason I had to answer that question so many times was due to the way Practice random encounter formula works. It was really annoying answering "教える" over and over and over 299 times and not earning a single EXP, lol. :| - That said, I've answered every question in the Practice(/Lessons) feature correctly 29 times now. A couple of other users have too. We now can't earn any EXP at all doing Practice or Lessons, since every question gives "0 EXP" and we still loose EXP if we answer wrong. ;_;
Anyway, I agree with you that it would be better if excellent was reduced to 95% or possibly even lower (maybe as low as 90%). Any question I've answered 27 times correct and 3 wrong I probably got wrong near the start but now know extremely well, which equals 90% correct. - It's really obvious I'm new here! I'm not aware of all these details haha. :)
I agree that it could be as low as 90% considering the 29 times correct exp limit. Though I'd rather have it set really high if there were no particular limit... I do think 1 wrong and 9 right isn't really worthy of "excellent" :P
I guess we should figure out an idea how to not lose exp if the user can't gain any either, or regulate it in some other way.
How does the random encounter work then? considering you got to answer that one so many times... 
I think the current system of only being able to have the excellent rating if you never ever once make a mistake on the term is not a good system. I think perhaps we could move to mastery levels. 50% or lower is no mastery, or the lowest, then you could have a mastery level for 61-70, 71-80, and so on. The last mastery level is 90-100, meaning that you can hit it and are not excluded just because you decided to practice when you're not at your best/distracted.
