there is a sad person on this site, who do evrything to become number one........he plays against another and that one resigns after a 1 or 2 moves, so he wins and now he is almost number 1. and he can say i'm the best, very sad

redfrog: Yes! that is it , managed to do it now ... thanks

coan.net: I had to take my team out because one person wanted off the team to play in another. I already had us in Fencers tourney. Only the Captain can do it. It is where you sign up for the tourney. Then we had to wait to enter again until I found another player.

redfrog: Good catch - I think that is it. For example, I look at regular battleboats - I can remove a player - but in Battleboat Plus where I already have a team signed up, I don't have that option any more.

MadMonkey: Here is a thought - the team tournaments may be impacting your situation - i dont know if the team in question is signed up for the team tournament or not - but i know that i looked at a couple teams i am member of to see if i could discover anything.

The teams that i am on that are not signed up for any of the coming team tournaments - those ones i can leave if i wanted to

the teams that are signed up and i have been selected to play... those team i cannot leave. Im guessing i cant leave until the tournament starts - that way - i cant sign up and get registered to play on one team and then do the same for another team.

the reason you might not be able to remove the member is that the team may be signed up - if thats the case - you will probably have to remove the team from the tournament first - then remove the member - select a new set of 8 - then sign up again....

i would ask any captain of a team that is signed up look at their teams and see if thats the case - im guessing they cant remove someone if the team is registered....

MadMonkey: Yes! thanks, I have now reported it, I must stress it is not from my fellowship I wish to remove a team member, but another fellowship I am captain in......... but! I don't have the option in my fellowship either

MadMonkey: http://brainking.com/en/ReadBug?bgi=1321

yep, here it is!

Eriisa: I dont know, if Welly had not asked how to do it, i would never have mentioned it
Is it a bug ? I guess it must be

Marfitualu: you have lost me, my Computer is fine

MadMonkey: Has anyone put it into a bug report yet?

Marfitalu: I know, so do i on MOST my Teams, but not all

Welly, was looking for a way to remove players from a Team, so i showed him the Remove member option.
He said he did not have it, then coan.net said he did not either.
It sort of escalated from there, some have it and some do not, BUT now Team i have found one (maybe more) that i do not have it on

Odd but i can not see any difference or reason as to why it is there or it is not. I thought it maybe a Team Captain thing, but i have it in ones i am a Captain of and also those i am not

I think Fencer will have to let us know what make it appear or not

Other thought i guess, it could be an option that should always be there for Captains & BB's BUT could be a bug causing it to act irrationally (thats a good word for a Saturday lol)

coan.net: Transfered from Fellowship board lol

That remove member from Team option we were talking about. I have just come across one Team that i do not have it on

MadMonkey: Maybe the Manual processing option was selected.
More on this: http://brainking.info/archives/103-Automatic-membership-renewals.html , http://brainking.info/archives/112-Automatic-membership-upgradingdowngrading.html

coan.net: When I switched from Knight to Rook, I became a Rook right away and the rest of my Knight membership was added (one Rook month for two Knight months if I remember that correctly) without me having to ask Fencer for it, so I always thought that it is part of the automatic processing.

But now I am not even sure that my payment was processed automatically

Sorry my bad, wrong board.. Thanks, Rod... :)

MadMonkey: I think it can do either - but I don't think that is setup in the automatic payment process that works for 95% of the users, so the person might need to let Fencer know what they want to do and have him manually fix it.

If a member upgrades from a Bishop / Knight to a Rook, i thought there Rook membership started right away, and any left over of there previous membership was added to the end

Well, surely it should do so they can take advantage of there new membership for Tournaments etc...

Can someone tell me why everytime i hit return i get a white out?.. Also been having problems the last few days with pages being to long..Thanks...

wetware: You can only use autopass if your opponent wants it too....why?  ask Fencer :)

wetware: FYI - Autopass is ONLY available in gammon games for now tho.. No others

tippyc and Tigger:  Thank you both very much. 

Tigger: ok. you win. i need to learn some basic html

wetware:   click here

scroll down

wetware: settings -> game filter, at the bottomof the page

alanback: of course because of the sheer number of dice rolls being generated every day, there will be a large amount of good or bad rolls. you are exactly right. i bet that if you could somehow look at all of the rolls on this site in a day, you would probably see each of the 6 numbers represented fairly evenly.

this reminds me of when i used to regularly scan the forums of a poker site i play at. inevitably ehrte was always someone complaining about the large number of bad beats. what they didnt always realize was that that site does hunderds of thousands of hands on a slow day, and that a certain percentage of bad beats will happen. a 1% chance over 1 million hands is 10,000.

Jim Dandy: I think I rolled first, then saw my roll and resigned, if I remember right.

Family Man: It's happened to me a few times,I feel your pain.Why did you resign though,it looked like you had one last shot

Family Man: that deserves a Hall of Fame. lol

Family Man: Look at moves #14 through #19 in this game Backgammon (Family Man vs. schoffi)

4 double 1s and 2 double 4s all in a row!

rabbitoid: I just played in a game a couple of days ago that my opponent had 6 doubles in a row!

They had double 1s four turns in a row and backed that up with double 4 twice!

Lets see if I can find it if it is really that rare!

alanback: Yes! I think people just need 'something' to blame when they get so frustrated.

Just out of interest though, Fencer, is the random dice programme 'burglar proof' as someone else mentioned, or could anyone playing here be able to fiddle their dice?
(Im a technophobe so wouldnt have a clue about such things lol)

Lambyless:  Yes, it was a real revelation to me when I played my first big tournament with precision dice and the rolls were just as "impossible" as they are online.

alanback: Yes I agree & I don't think it does happen. I play backgammon in 'real  life' also & the dice are as annoying at times as they are on here (and thats me throwing them so no excuse lol).....so thats just the way it goes

Lambyless:  You're right, if it happens very often to the same person that would raise suspicion.  I was responding to the suggestion that it should never happen.

alanback: even so, surely it can't malfunction with the same person every time to assist them to win? (which is what the point of this topic is isnt it?)

MadMonkey: I think there was a way to do as you request at one time , but it was open to people abusing the system so was stopped
(at least to my knowledge this is correct)

rabbitoid:  Au contraire, if no one gets this, the random number generator is definitely malfunctioning.  Do you have any idea how many dice rolls are simulated every day on this site?  What can happen, must eventually happen, given enough opportunity.  A chance of one in less than 100,000?  That's probably an everyday event here.

Eriisa: I know i can, but when things crop up on us, not everyone can find 'x' amount of money to do there membership on short notice

Having a way to just buy a quick day or two would be extremely helpful

Andersp: after I sit in a bar for a while ALL the sixes I see are doubled, so that's no surprise

rabbitoid:   But if you sit in the bar and the only thing you cant use is a 6, then im sure the chances that Fencer's random dice gives you  a double 6 is at least 75% LOL

true. someone wins the lottery, after all. that's why I only say probably wrong.

rabbitoid: but there are so many people playing so many games here every day that someone is bound to get it

probability to get a double: 1/6.
probability to get 6 doubles in a row: (1/6)^6 = 1/46656
if anyone gets this, the random generator is probably wrong.

probability not to get a double: 5/6
probability not to get a double, 6 times in a row: (5/6)^6 = 15625/46656 or about 1/3. well within reasonable.

tippyc: the probability of getting double 6's on any given roll is always exactly 1/36. the same concept applies to all dice rolls.

But that does not mean either, that the probability of getting 6 doubles in a row is the same as not getting 6 doubles in a row.

MadMonkey: extend your membership will get you more days.

I have no vacation days left, and know of others in the same boat, whether like me it was because of no PC connection or moving home, there are numerous reasons

So, what do we do now ?
Well myself i try to get here every day, BUT that is not always possible for some people.

There was a mention a while ago about having people able to access someone elses account to play there games & prevent games timing out. Have not heard anymore about that

How about for those who have run out of vacation days the possibility of being able to buy more (say 2 EUR per day).
I would say a maximum of 10 so people did not just do it for the sake of it, or take undue advantage.

It would be nice if invited to a wedding, funeral or even having to go into hospital, we did not have to have the worry of games timing out on us

Gabriel Almeida: this discussion was about the dice games on brainking .. not about cheating per se .. no names were being called (i dont allow names being called on this board .. it only leads to lynching of specific players not to a discussion about brainking and its system

if someone can give a list of a player who won extraordinary many dice games by getting too many good rolls .. please ask about it on the board of that game type and ask the experts in that game if its possible to have these rolls this often .. it might be skill or not yet subject to the rule of large numbers .. but again .. try to leave out the name .. we dont want people to go after a specific person .. the only person to go after someone is fencer
(and by the way .. asking for bernice to be banned isnt inline with this board either :))

But I guess that "cheaters" is a forbidden topic on that board...

Gabriel Almeida: I´ve seen people being banned from the checkers board for less...

Bernice: And By the way... I don't understand why haven't you been banned yet! ;)
"Cheating stuffs" are forbidden discussions, in Brainking. There's always someone in the command that decides this is not the right place to argue that! Anyway, I still don't know where is a right place for that discussion...