i never played this but i will learn, i hope it's easy?
QuoteThe Canasta Ranking System consists of 50 ranks and 5 Rank Badges. Players receive special badges when they reach ranks 5, 13, 33, 43, and 50.
To get the last badge you need to collect a total of 10,000 red 3's!
hay all, where are you all getting this info??? the game isn't even out yet?????
Add the game to your favorites list and then get it in from there.
Hmmmmm....I searched the home page...but...nothing to add to favorites....only the darn *Preview* link. A pogo mystery....again...lolll ::)
Pud
Oooopsss...my mistake! I edited my favorites and....voila! ;D
Pud
Go to your favorites on the home page and hit the edit button. It will bring up a list of your favorites on the right and all the games on your left. Find Canasta, the list is in alphabetical order. Then add it to your list and hit finished.
The game has completely frozen on me a few times. I hate glitches!
wheres info? is it playable?
i only se preview
hay all, thanks for the info lulu! this game rocks!!!
Yeah, I think it's cool. My parents use to play it all the time when I was younger.
sser, the info is in the favorites list. Just add it to your list and go into it to play it from there.
This looks like a cool game plus it has badges to win. Now all I have to do is learn how to play it.
I am wondering how you get the badges.... if it is only via red threes .. skill isnt involved... just the luck of drawing the red threes.... how is that a challenge.... in that case just never pick up the pile just keep drawing to get as many threes as you can.... makes no sense... wouldnt it make more sense to make the ratings according to how many canastas you get rather than red 3's
Not open here either, still shows preview and also nascar as preview
There really is no skill involved. You get the badges by playing all the time. Kinda stupid if you ask me. It's luck to get the red 3's. All the badges would show is how much time you spend playing the game. :)
Everyone who can't find it, just add it to your favorites and get in from there!!
NASCAR web racing is there aswell.
Right nlow there is more people in Canasta than GG. Oh, what a surprise (as she says sarcastically)! And a lot of people still don't know about Canasta coming out yet.
Quote from: DJ on July 27, 2004, 06:32:56 AM
QuoteThe Canasta Ranking System consists of 50 ranks and 5 Rank Badges. Players receive special badges when they reach ranks 5, 13, 33, 43, and 50.
To get the last badge you need to collect a total of 10,000 red 3's!
Here is some pics of the new ranks http://bluebellis.co.uk/pogo/ranks.php?game=canasta
Thanks for the pictures but does anyone know how many red 3's (how stupid) that it takes to reach each rank????
I'm over rank 1. It looks like it was 100 to reach it.
if you think it is stupid don't play LOL
Quote from: debdauber on July 27, 2004, 11:11:39 AM
Not open here either, still shows preview and also nascar as preview
please read above! only way you can play this game is by following someone from your friends list or add it to your FAVORITES. next time please read above could be helpful ;)
it does take 100 red hearts to advance in rank
stupid game will sit and think for a while then reject the move i want to make when i'm down to 3 or 4 cards. What a ****ing rip
while i was playing canasta the game froze 7 times and i had to refresh the page, so there are some bugs in it still
god damn this game sucks ass. still wont let me make my own damn move without timing out
Just got rank 3 this is easy. I have had not problems with the game at all no bugs here
Quote from: Bizach0620 on July 28, 2004, 04:18:05 PM
Just got rank 3 this is easy
How? I can barley get 1 game and i'm not gonna play 500 games just to get a stupid badge.
That game is really easy once you know how to play it... don't give up just yet.
You will have to play a lot more then 500 games to get the 1st badge LOL.
i thought I was going to hate this game, cause I never had any luck figuring out gin.
but i watched the tutorial and read the directions and have won the 5 games I have played so far. Its a fun game when you get the basics.
Plus, my goal is to get the cake badge. :) mmm cake ;D
http://groups.msn.com/clubpogobadges/canasta.msnw
Quote from: DJ on July 28, 2004, 04:19:49 PM
That game is really easy once you know how to play it... don't give up just yet.
Its reallyeasy to give up when i have a 5-2-5 in my meld pile and then i try and meld another 5 in and it wont let me. Also, it wont even let me discard.
I've lost almost 60 red 3s because of this shit.
I keep getting the stuffing beat out of me. :'( I come close but no cigar. it never lets me discard my last card. :'(
you can't lose red 3's LOL says that in the rules
also don't use a timer if you are having a problem.
u cannot discard because u need to canasta 1st..... if u cant play the damn game read the rules 1st dont go spreading ur shit around here man.... and lost 60 red 3's? LMFAO sure man...
like bizach says u cannot lose them! whether u win or lose the game they still count.
And sometimes you need 2 canasts liek in my rooms.
Quote from: Royal_Flush on July 28, 2004, 05:07:08 PM
u cannot discard because u need to canasta 1st..... if u cant play the damn game read the rules 1st dont go spreading ur sh*t around here man.... and lost 60 red 3's? LMFAO sure man...
like bizach says u cannot lose them! whether u win or lose the game they still count.
No need to be rude.
That was not rude LOL Truse me if you see the people playing this game LOL
Where are all these new nasty people coming from on the board? This forum has been pretty civil for the last month at least. Now all of a sudden there are fights in every thread.
I like canasta. It takes a very long time to lay, I am not very good, and I keep getting my ass handed to me, but I do like it. Anything new is good, at least for a week or so.
I have been here sence day one its always liek this LOL
It seems like it lightened up without a_playa and Jeff. I could be wrong though.
Homer,
You cannot discard your last card until you have at least one Canasta. You have to have 7 or more cards in one of your piles.
Yeah I realize that part Bob. I have even had 2 canastas and that dreaded no discard light comes on. I'm sure I'm overlooking something very simple.
you have to draw or mels before you discard
you have to click on the card you want to discard then the discard light will come on... if you dont click on the last card it will just say NO discard.....
Just what you guys are talking about is confusing me. :-\. And yeah its been pretty nasty up here all the time w/ ppl fighting and such......
All you need to do is sit ar a table a watch them play its a very easy game I am almost rank 5 29 more 3's togo
What is the best tip you could give us.
Quote from: Royal_Flush on July 28, 2004, 05:07:08 PM
u cannot discard because u need to canasta 1st..... if u cant play the damn game read the rules 1st dont go spreading ur sh*t around here man.... and lost 60 red 3's? LMFAO sure man...
like bizach says u cannot lose them! whether u win or lose the game they still count.
What i was saying is that i had cards to meld and would click meld. Then game would sit there and turn its wheels without doing anything.
Also, i would have 3 or 4 cards in my hand and try to discard one of them. Same thing would happen, game would sit and do nothing.
To get the problem fixed, i would have to close the game window, thus losing any red 3's i have gotten that round. Thats how you lose red 3's :P
Pogo is still having problems with the game.... the game is still in beta eventhough it has been released to the public. I'm sure in the next few days all major bugs will be fixed and the game won't freeze up as much anymore. As a matter of fact Canasta is down right now, I'm guessing pogo is adding more rooms and is probably updating it. I saw Pogo_Jimg in Canasta yesterday he must one of the programmers if not the programmer of the game.
That is realy strange why have i had no problems?
Quote from: Homer on July 29, 2004, 05:15:58 AM
Yeah I realize that part Bob. I have even had 2 canastas and that dreaded no discard light comes on. I'm sure I'm overlooking something very simple.
Homer click on the card ( the last card in your hand) and the discard lite will come on :)
Quote from: Thisnamenottaken on July 29, 2004, 11:27:05 AM
you have to click on the card you want to discard then the discard light will come on... if you dont click on the last card it will just say NO discard.....
I'll have to try that. Don't remember if I clicked the card or not ??? Might have had a Homer moment. D'oh! :P
It keeps crashing on me so I never get my red 3's credited! :(
i have noticed more crashing in the 4 player rooms then the 2 player rooms if that is any help to anyone ;)
I hope that when they make final adjustments that progress wont change. I am in the middle of level 3!!
Quote from: Bizach0620 on July 29, 2004, 01:20:07 PM
That is realy strange why have i had no problems?
My game freezes up on me sometimes but I'm not complaining... I moved up in the ranks very nicely, not going to give anymore information :P
thats all the info your giving ;D
Think I'm finally getting the hang of this. What a dope. I was not clicking on the last card before discarding. D'oh! :-[
lol silly homer
woo hoo I got the 1st Canasta Badge!! it looks like the top part to a cello
I know everyone hates complaining... but I have to say I do NOT like this game.... its no longer a game of canasta.... there is NO point in playing the game with skill... with the badges set up the way they are its best to just draw every hand.... freeze the pile, so the bots dont go out on you and hope for red threes.... win or lose means NOTTA....
Pogo should have made the badges for amount of wins, or amount of canastas made.... this way is just insane... and playing bots... I notice they get at least 2 on the draw every hand.
Quote from: Thisnamenottaken on July 30, 2004, 05:43:53 AM
I know everyone hates complaining... but I have to say I do NOT like this game.... its no longer a game of canasta.... there is NO point in playing the game with skill... with the badges set up the way they are its best to just draw every hand.... freeze the pile, so the bots dont go out on you and hope for red threes.... win or lose means NOTTA....
Pogo should have made the badges for amount of wins, or amount of canastas made.... this way is just insane... and playing bots... I notice they get at least 2 on the draw every hand.
I agree, there is no stategy or thought involved the way pogo set it up and everytime i have near 4000 points pogo boots me from the room so i lose the few red 3's i got during the game, Funny the bots get 2 red 3's on the 1st deal every hand........
Boy they could use some more rooms for this game. >:(
I can maybe get one game completed then it messes up and gets a uncaught error and exits :( taking for ever to get up in rank.
if i can actually get a room for this game, i havent had any problems. Earlier in the week, it kept on booting me, but its been fine for me since.
;D
Hello ev1 - I am fairly new to this site but love the game of canasta, so thought I would read through the comments u guys had listed about it. The first few pages were pretty much what I had expected about people not getting into rooms etc etc, as I had had these problems myself. So I thought I would pass on the advice I was given by a kind soul in one of the rooms. I was told to download sun java and run that on my machine - I did - and I have had no problems since.
Then I read the post about the red 3's and there not being any skill involved. I agree that pogo should have made it how many canastas u get rather than how many red 3's because then you would actually have to work for the badge. However having said that, I am sorry but I do not agree with there not being any skill involved, try playing a rated game if you feel ev1 is just there to take red 3's and try working on your rating.While you are concentrating on that the red 3's just fly by and you wouldn't even notice. The majority of pogo players seem to car4e more about their rating than they do about their ranks - so if you want a challenge - play a rated game.
Finally I see everyone was interested in how many red 3's u need to complete a rank. I just reached rank 45, so I can confirm that up until rank 45 you need 100 red 3's for every rank from 1 to 44. After that, geez, are you in for a shock !!!!!! Have only just picked myself up off the floor. The grand total needed to reach rank 46 is 1,500 red 3's. 1,500 !!! 1,500 !!!!! 1,500 !!!!!!!
See you all in 12 months time when I finally reach rank 46 - enjoy your canasta.
I agree with you. The badges should have been based on the number of canastas. At first I did not like this game because i did not understand it but after a couple days practice I am totally into it now. :)