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Various tile colours (In wall view mode. blue = dora indicator, green = tiles you will draw and         orange = dangerous tiles)

You can view only view the walls from games that were played after 8am on 03/02

I've played on a lot of mahjong clients and the only other client I've seen with the ability to look at the wall in replays was Marujan but that client just isn't worth the enormous price it costs to actually play there.

I just noticed Tsuno has added some shuugi test play games but they seem to be windows client only at the moment.

Preview-Webcast from January with subs:

Now let's hope they will animate stuff as awesome as the Manga, like:

Hello there! We have created a beginners guide to online mahjong, so please check it out! The links to it are in the sidebar. One thing we noticed a lot was beginners wanting information on how to start playing, and we had nowhere to point them. You could either give them huge collections of links like some kind of internet riddle game, or just tell them to play online until they figured it out for themselves. Fortunately now we have a simpler option, and you can start your journey right here.

In completely different news, a list of Yakuza 3 trophies has appeared on the internet. This list is lacking the mahjong trophy and some others (shogi, cabaret trophies etc). Hopefully this means they haven't cut out mahjong completely for whatever reason.

Also, in the Japanese blogosphere (笑) there has been talk about whether or not Tsunoda should allow people to watch dan games in real time, but I could reading this wrong.

Finally NISEMARU2009 has posted a trailer for mudazumo. You may watch it here

2. Always defend, unless you should be attacking.

3. If you are an expert like me, you can even try attacking and defending at the same time.

4. Only deal tiles that other players cannot use, or you will be helping them form their hands.

5. When other players are in tenpai, it is important that you do not deal into their hands.

6. Make other players deal into your hand by waiting on unexpected tiles.

7. Always score as many points as possible.

8. Win as many hands as you can.

9. It is silly to call tiles when you can always draw it yourself anyway.

10. Do not discard tiles nobody has discarded, or that anybody has discarded early, mid, or late game. If possible you can consider not discarding at all. But it's a double-edged sword. I can't recommend this to amateurs.

11. Always remember what your tiles look like, in case of sudden blindness.

If you are an expert player you are welcome to leave any of your own tips.

Here's the link to the thingy. There's also a Nodoka one available but for some reason this one is more popular by far.

http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/gallery/All/search?p=saki&search.x=0&search.y=0

As someone in possession of the facts, I wouldn't mind clearing up this minor issue for you players out there who are concerned about the humanity of their opponents.

There are no bots on 7447.

Well, no mahjong-playing bots.

Anyone who has been on the channel will have seen the IRC tenhou bot in action. It provides various useful services such as scoring and hand wait calculations, 7447 queue status, and notification of starting games and ending scores.

Most importantly, it functions as an anonymous outlet with which to harangue players in the lobby chat with various diatribes, which can be immature,

[02:52] <%tenhou> #CHAT ashen123(GUEST): hello~!
[02:53] <%tenhou> #CHAT Dashiva: haro
[02:53] <%tenhou> #CHAT 7447bot: [HQ] dicks

rude,

[02:11] <%tenhou> #CHAT phoz: well im off.
[02:12] <%tenhou> #CHAT Flonne: good
[02:12] <%tenhou> #CHAT 7447bot: [HQ] choke on a bouquet of cocks

or when used in combination with the chatbot, downright bizarre:

[19:18] <%tenhou> #CHAT 7447bot: [HQ] go for a day lol.
[19:18] <%tenhou> #CHAT 7447bot: [HQ] you have a friend are thinking of opening up #comiket.
[19:18] <%tenhou> #CHAT 7447bot: [HQ] go for a while.
[19:18] <%tenhou> #CHAT Hrfag: #komiket
[19:18] <%tenhou> #CHAT Hrfag: ff
[19:19] <%tenhou> #CHAT 7447bot: [HQ] you have to type a smiley or not, but i dont like to me.
[19:19] <%tenhou> #CHAT Hrfag: whatt&
[19:19] <%tenhou> #CHAT 7447bot: [HQ] you have xd.
[19:19] <%tenhou> #CHAT Hrfag: wat arrr urrrr spiiiik aboooout?
[19:19] <%tenhou> #CHAT 7447bot: [HQ] you have a keyboard.
[19:19] <%tenhou> #CHAT Hrfag: yep
[19:20] <%tenhou> #CHAT 7447bot: [HQ] you have a total of 4,510 lolis.
[19:20] <%tenhou> #CHAT Hrfag: i have a keyboard
[19:20] <%tenhou> #CHAT Hrfag: lolis?
[19:20] <%tenhou> #CHAT 7447bot: [HQ] choke on a cell phone.
[19:20] <%tenhou> #CHAT Hrfag: go play akadora
[19:20] <%tenhou> #CHAT 7447bot: [HQ] go for a white guy <3

Mahjong-playing bots do exist. However access and ownership of the programs is limited to a handful of people, who have no interest in setting them loose on our private lobby. It's a mahjong server, not a pokemon safari park. If you ever played against one, you would have noticed a very obvious and straightforward way of identifying them. As for the individuals who claim to have played against bots, perhaps the truth may be even more surprising - some people really are that bad.

End of public service announcement. Thank you for flying 7447.

-Uma 5-10, 5-15, 20-50
-Wareme
-No Tochuuryuukoku
-Houra renchan
-Add 1500 points to the hand value for each renchan counter (normally 300 points)
-Washizu
-Yakitori
-Can go below 0
-Atama hane
-Two aka dora in each suit.
-Noten renchan
-Oya doesn't change until someone wins a hand
-Open Riichi
-Start with 2 dora indicators
-Can ron on an ankan with kokushi musou
-Kanzen Sakizuke
-Flower tiles
-Other local rules
-Always 2 han Shibari
-Aka dora count as Yaku
-Shizumi Uma (???)
-Return riichi deposits if Ryuukyoku
-Noten payment adjustment
-Iichan
-Can not change your wait after riichi
-Okkurikan Ari (???)
-Aotenjou
-Chombo ari (something about changing the riichi button)
-No tsumo payment decrease in 3p

I had arrived late to the place, at about 3:20, due to me not seeing where I was at the subway (thanks a lot, A Cruce Victoria). Got off the train one stop too far, walked a couple of blocks, said "screw it", and climbed into a taxi for another 10 blocks or so (I was planning to use the six dollars I spent on the taxi for dinner, but whatever). When I entered, I just kinda stood around and made small talk for a while until the games begun. After the boring stuff was over with, I sat down and begun my first game.

We started with a slippery set, so our hands were messing up way too much. It was replaced with a new set that felt much better. I don't remember much of what happened in the game, although there were a few events that stuck in my mind. First round, east won a mangan off west. Second (or third), west ended up with a furiten chombo with chitoitsu. In one round, I made a kan and flipped the dora indicator that turned my kan tiles into 4 dora. However, that round misfired and I dealt into a non-dealer mangan when reaching tenpai. Eventually, I was 3rd with 20100 points (last was 20000, don't remember 1st and 2nd scores). The entire game was basically who can get some kind of han so that they can legally win (toi toi and/or tanyaos). Every winning hand was open as well as much of the non winning hands.

We were supposed to have one hanchan before stopping for snacks, but only managed to go through the east round. I felt that the reason was because the other players were way slower than me, but perhaps I've been away from playing real life mahjong for too long. Some people went out for a snack run, and when they came back, most of us ended up watching the last game go through South 4 while eating chips. Although I brought my laptop because Osamu and co wanted me to do a live blag or whatever, the wifi was dropping all the time, so I just gave up at this point.

For the 2nd game, I switched my seat to another table. This hanchan (that managed to become east only as well because everybody else played slower than me) was completely different than my first game, as people actually usually kept their hands closed. There were five to seven riichis in the game, and two or three were from me (so I have a bad memory, sue me). I chombo'd an open sanshoku dora hand, because I was way too nervous and said (more like shouted) ron before I said to myself that just because it had green on it on the quarter of the tile that I saw didn't mean that it was my winning tile. My wait was 58s and the tile was 9s. I got back my points with riichis and tanyaos. East 4 was the most memorable one for me, in which I ron'd for riichi and dora 1, and came in second place. However, I forgot to flip for uradora until the scores were recorded and we were getting up. As you may have guessed, I got one uradora and bumped my hand from 2600 to 5200, which meant that I was knocked up to first place (I don't remember exact scores for this game either, although I'm fairly certain that I was at 34#00).

The end was the usual stuff, thanks for coming, etc. Various mahjong goods that I noticed were in the room included mahjong related magazines, a volume of some Fukumoto mango (Ten perhaps), a ruler with kokushi musou, a sanma mahjong set from Hiroshima and other stuff that I forgot about. Overall, I had a nice time and it was worth the time and money I spent that day.

In more recent news, Tsuno also posted a list of optional rules he's thinking of adding to championship mode, this includes open riichi, yakitori, flower tiles, option to start with 2 dora indicators, wareme and Washizu Mahjong.

Edit: Apparently Tsuno was thinking of adding Aotenjou too but due to 32bit, it's nearly impossible to have numbers that high. He said something about 'buu mahjong' too

-Uma 5-10, 5-15, 20-50
-Wareme
-No Tochuuryuukoku
-Houra renchan
-Add 1500 points to the hand value for each renchan counter (normally 300 points)
-Washizu
-Yakitori
-Can go below 0
-Atama hane
-Two aka dora in each suit.
-Noten renchan
-Oya doesn't change until someone wins a hand
-Open Riichi
-Start with 2 dora indicators
-Can ron on an ankan with kokushi musou
-Kanzen Sakizuke
-Flower tiles
-Other local rules
-Always 2 han Shibari
-Aka dora count as Yaku
-Shizumi Uma (???)
-Return riichi deposits if Ryuukyoku
-Noten payment adjustment
-Iichan
-Can not change your wait after riichi
-Okkurikan Ari (???)

There are some awesome rules that I can't wait for and some that just sound stupid (aka dora count as yaku!) It would be nice if Tsuno added an aotenjou option too.

Most online games at least allow you to use whatever remaining time you have left after cancelling but Ron2 decides to be completely different and delete your account. They didn't even allow me to use whatever remaining time I had left.

To give them some credit, they at least warned me before I cancelled my account!

Oh and afterwards they decided to tell me `we look forward to seeing you again'

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I doubt I will actually become a paying member of ron2 again.