To NaturalPunishment.
What do I think about should it still stay bullet or not:
There are berserking in tournaments. And, as we know, if you berserk in 1+0 tournament, your rating still affects your bullet rating. Though, the berserking feature means initially, that if you win with 30 seconds against 60 seconds, then you would anyway win also with the whole 60 seconds, so it affects your bullet rating.
When you play 30sec against 30 sec (if both players berserk), it still affects your bullet rating. But. Is a half-minute game the same as one-minute game?
1. How time controls range on Lichess (correct me if I'm wrong)?
Bullet: 1+0...2+1.
Blitz: 3+0...7+1.
Classical: 8+0 and more.
We can see, that it changes throughout two and a half times.
So it means, that if the time control is less than 1+0, it should, probably, also be changed. It will be than from 25sec to 60 sec.
2. Thirty seconds games are different from 1+0 bullet.
I had situations when I and my opponent both berserked in the tournament. Usually nobody berserks against me. Only players who have more than 2300 rating. So I had cases when I played against IM, also against other player who was 2400, where we both berserked. And I won them. I won IM in 30sec games. But I usually never win IMs in 1+0. So it means that 30ec games are different from bullet. So it should have another name.
This is my thoughts. Give your opinions.
To MTal01.
What I think about completely custom time.
It would be amazing of course. So we could just choose any amount of seconds.
Your idea is nice and I support it.
Though, in the same time I see problems, that are related mostly to implementing, but maybe it's possible to solve them:
When there is too much time controls under a minute, it will be difficult to find an opponent. Because one will look for games of 15"+0, another for 5"+0, another for 30"+0, etc. So they probably will not find each other. It's possible to solve maybe, if we can create an option, that will pair all players who create a game under 1 minute. But, some of them might be disagree to play 15"+0 instead of 20"+0. So it might be difficult to find an opponent, if there will be too much different time controls.
Also it's difficult to implement. But creating only 30 seconds games at least is not so difficult.
And this options should also not to interfere people: if there will be too much choice under one minute then someone can find it distracting. But creating another windows for super fast player can be also too difficult for implementors.
I think we should start with 30sec+0. Because:
Administrators, Thibault need to be sure, that creating the new time controls is necessary and people want it. They can't know yet if creating too much time controls is worth it coding.
Creating only one time control for a start is not so difficult, and they don't risk anyway. We gave them argumentation, opinions of people, so I think they will understand that 30sec+0 is really necessary. It's be very big progress for us, if they will create even only one time control: 30sec+0.
And what I suggest is:
Let's create this 30sec + 0.
Since people want it.
Let's see how popular it will be.
And then we can think also about another time controls less than 1 minute.
What do you think, MTal01?
We can discuss it deeper.
Join our team about new time controls. It's special for it. ;)
http://en.lichess.org/team/30-seconds--0-time-controlI would also like to see some opinions of developers, administrators. They can see that 30sec, berserking, this requests are becoming popular. What do they think? Will they give us 30sec+0?
