jayeff
07-04-2001, 08:19 AM
RB2 has IMO a really nice admin interface. That and its price (I bought before the new pricing of BlindIO and UCJ), convinced me to buy several copies.
It handles stable trades perfectly well, but it appears to have some serious drawbacks that so far, I have only part answers to:
1. Forces are a VERY low priority. It takes forever to clear them, with the result that it is near impossible, to build big trades quickly: most of the time you look like an idiot or a liar from promising and not delivering. The software's author told me to try setting someone's stats to zero before forcing. That doesn't help and of course, I lose the history on which the trade should be working.
My answer to this has been to temporarily add some numbers to the unique hits in. It works, but correcting the numbers later doubles the work involved in building a trade and there's no control over exactly how many hits are sent. If anyone using RB2 has a better solution, I would be glad to know it...
2. There is no daily force or reset option and (even if the force worked better) it would be a pain to go through all the trades every day, putting them in manually.
So, today was typical... 1am off to bed with trades going nicely on 5 sites. 7 hours later and more than a third of the trades are dead.
What I think is happening is that a bunch of my trades reset the balances on their trades to zero once a day (or else trade based only on the present day). If I owe them when this happens, no problem, RB2 will send them trades. But if they owe me, RB2 sits and waits for trades to come in. If they don't, then with no reset or auto-force possible at my end, the trade is instantly dead.
I can get up in the morning and push some traffic to restart everything, but in the meantime, I have lost 6+ hours of trading and it takes a lot of time making manual entries to change each trade and get them restarted.
This one I can't find an answer to at all and it can totally cripple sites. I have had trades drop from 10K plus down to a few hundred if the program is left to itself for just 2 or 3 days.
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Okay, so if I had cash lying around and didn't mind losing what I already spent, I should switch to something else. Scorpion works well for me, though I hate the admin. Even the free version of CJPro handles traffic better: nasty interface again and I'm put off by reports of corrupt databases and low traffic handling limits.
I've seen other questions about RB2 (especially about forces) go unanswered, but if anyone does have any solutions that work, PLEASE post them!
It handles stable trades perfectly well, but it appears to have some serious drawbacks that so far, I have only part answers to:
1. Forces are a VERY low priority. It takes forever to clear them, with the result that it is near impossible, to build big trades quickly: most of the time you look like an idiot or a liar from promising and not delivering. The software's author told me to try setting someone's stats to zero before forcing. That doesn't help and of course, I lose the history on which the trade should be working.
My answer to this has been to temporarily add some numbers to the unique hits in. It works, but correcting the numbers later doubles the work involved in building a trade and there's no control over exactly how many hits are sent. If anyone using RB2 has a better solution, I would be glad to know it...
2. There is no daily force or reset option and (even if the force worked better) it would be a pain to go through all the trades every day, putting them in manually.
So, today was typical... 1am off to bed with trades going nicely on 5 sites. 7 hours later and more than a third of the trades are dead.
What I think is happening is that a bunch of my trades reset the balances on their trades to zero once a day (or else trade based only on the present day). If I owe them when this happens, no problem, RB2 will send them trades. But if they owe me, RB2 sits and waits for trades to come in. If they don't, then with no reset or auto-force possible at my end, the trade is instantly dead.
I can get up in the morning and push some traffic to restart everything, but in the meantime, I have lost 6+ hours of trading and it takes a lot of time making manual entries to change each trade and get them restarted.
This one I can't find an answer to at all and it can totally cripple sites. I have had trades drop from 10K plus down to a few hundred if the program is left to itself for just 2 or 3 days.
**
Okay, so if I had cash lying around and didn't mind losing what I already spent, I should switch to something else. Scorpion works well for me, though I hate the admin. Even the free version of CJPro handles traffic better: nasty interface again and I'm put off by reports of corrupt databases and low traffic handling limits.
I've seen other questions about RB2 (especially about forces) go unanswered, but if anyone does have any solutions that work, PLEASE post them!