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Purchase an Poker Copilot 5 by April 30th, 2015, to get the upgrade for $30 instead of $35.
Poker Copilot 5.19 is now available to .
This update has many small fixes and improvements. The most important changes are:
Poker Copilot 5.18 is now available to .
(I’m from a country where we spell things more or less than same as they do in England. Therefore, throughout this post, I use colour instead of color.)
The most important change in this update is the HUD colour settings:
Some other changes:
I hate it when an app I use every day changes things for no apparent reason. Or for an apparent reason, but not something that was an issue for me. And so I’m aware that some of you will be bothered by the changes in this update. Others won’t notice. And some people will be very pleased. Let me explain further why we did this:
Problem 1: Confusion
Until this update, Poker Copilot’s HUD colours were configured via three different places:
All three sets of settings were combined to choose the correct colours to use.
This was probably confusing for some customers; it certainly was confusing for us here at Poker Copilot global headquarters.
Problem 2: Limitations
A long-standing and common request for Poker Copilot was to be able to change the colour settings for M-ratio and other non-percentage based stats. A quite recent but common request from our SharkScope s is to be able to colour statistics according to SharkScope statistics, which are often neither percentage-based, nor inaccurate until a certain number of hands for the player are in your local Poker Copilot database.
Problem 3: Keep it Simple
Making a simple interface is hard. Well, it is easy if there are few choices and features to offer. But when there are subtle differences between features that seem alike from a perspective, hiding that difference behind a simple interface is hard. I tried to concoct an alternative to our multi-colour sliders that are used to control HUD colours. I talked to smart people who know Poker Copilot well; I sought external help. But alas, it seemed that the multi-colour sliders were not practical for statistics like M-Ratio or Times Played. For the sake of simplicity we needed an approach that would work for all statistics, no matter what their range of allowed values.
Our Approach
Over the last month, I’ve used the brilliant Balsamiq Mockups to make drafts of potential approaches to remove the confusion, remove the limitations, and yet keep it simple. I’ve bounced ideas around with others. I’ve coded up test solutions. It was hard. But we got it done. Perhaps the solution we’ve got is ideal; we hope it is. But if not, we’ll be listening to customer to tweak the approach in the coming weeks.
Here’s the new HUD Colours preferences :
I hope you enjoy the extra flexibility these settings give you.
From the “about time” category: the next update of Poker Copilot lets you create your own colour settings for M-ratio in the HUD.
You can change any colour and change the values at which any colour is used. You can add many more colour settings.
Why has this taken so long? It required a substantial change to the way Poker Copilot colours statistics. The amount of work required always pushed this down in the priorities of things to change in Poker Copilot.
There’s more to this new feature. You can now set the colours of any of Poker Copilot’s HUD statistics. Until now, only stats that showed a percentage value could have custom colours that are used at different values. Now you can colour any statistic. For example, here’s how you could change the colour of “hands played” so that for players you played often it shows in green:
We’ve changed the statistic colouring system substantially; an blog post will demonstrate the changes.
