Good app with two major problems – SmartGo Player Review

This is a good Go app, but suffers from two major problems in "autohandicap" mode. 1) The AI gets smarter at the same time as you lose handicap. This leads to level transitions where you will win 90% of games on one level and lose 90% of games on the next level. Thanks to point (2), you can be stuck in this boring, frustrating loop for a very long time. 2) The automatic downleveling mechanic makes it very difficult to adapt to the new difficulty. Once you go up a level it's very easy to lose three times. The fact that I then have to spend 10-15 minutes winning three easy games to get back to that challenge kills my motivation to keep playing. My suggestions to the dev: - Double the number of levels to make the difficulty curve smoother. When a player levels up, take away a handicap stone first, then make the AI smarter, and alternate from then on. - Make automatic downleveling optional. Let me hit my ahead against the wall if I want to. If the concern is that someone could accidentally win 3 games and advance, increase the number of consecutive wins required to level up as a function of consecutive losses. It's true that I could simulate these rules by using manual handicap instead of automatic, but I don't want to have to keep track of these things myself.
Review by xfsrsf on SmartGo Player.