Fencer: Ah, I wasn't clear enough then. Could there be bright yellow for a win by one player and a different colour for a win by the other?

playBunny: The bright yellow marks the winner.

Rather than bright yellow for both players, could there be a separate colours?

Fencer: Can the Ponds game be made so that a player may bid later rounds in advance? This could help someone with having to be away from the site and being stuck with the auto bid set up as it is now. I was thinking a week's worth of moves at most or four rounds. grenv seems to like having every round available. In either case the later round bids would be changable by the player if he wanted to change them or made it back to the site in time. A few have posted about it on the Ponds board if you'd like to see other imput on it. It certainly seems like a good idea and should be fair for all. The auto bid feature could be left in place too.

grenv: I believe him. LOL

wekke: lol.

Pedro Martínez: That's what I meant indeed...Non English speaking you know...LOL

grenv: I think wekke meant threaded boards...:)

what is a threatened DB? Seems a little sinister to me.

Fencer: Okay, this makes my question needless.

wekke: If you create a tournament through your fellowship page, only the fellowship members can participate. It won't be even displayed on the Tournaments page.

wekke: What DBs do you want to threaten?
Eek, I know what you mean. Not in the development at the moment.

Fencer: But does it work if it's a private tournament? Or are fellowship tourneys always excluded for non fellowship members?

Fencer: Good idea...And threatened db's? Any chance for that?

wekke: You can use the "Stuur een bericht naar alle leden van het genootschap" link on your fellowship page and post the tournament URL to the message.

It would be nice if I could send a tourney invitation to my whole fellowship...For private tournaments that is...Any possibility this might happen in the neir future? And threadened discussion boards.

Hi,

it would be nice to see on page with tournaments (after clicking on Tournaments link on left menu) game type too. I know it is possible to filter game type but if I'm interested in seeing / playing more tournaments of different game types, I must choose many times game type to filter tournaments.

Thanks :-)

I would like to be able to cheer on members who have entered my ponds...
clicking on "discussion" only shows me what has been said....I would like to talk to the members in my ponds...expecially when it is a prize pond as is this one :(

http://brainking.com/en/Pond?g=256

**OOPS expecially should be especially hehehe

rod03801: Just a small correction: There are no pond tournaments. The messages we receive when a pond is finished correspond to the PMs sent by the system after a game is over.

Fencer, would it be possible to send out messages to everyone entered in a tournament, when the tournament ends? (Like with the ponds)
Once I am done in a tournament, I tend to forget about the tournament, and never find out who ended up winning it. I love that feature with the ponds.

Grim Reaper: yes ,I assumed that would be a turn procedure,as in most word games.

http://www.maj.com/gallery/BuilderQ/Board-Game-Images/stone35.gif

http://www.maj.com/gallery/BuilderQ/Board-Game-Images/stone50.gif

http://www.maj.com/gallery/BuilderQ/Board-Game-Images/stone65.gif

http://www.maj.com/gallery/BuilderQ/Board-Game-Images/stone90.gif

grenv: Checking words for their existance in a dictionary is trivial. Just stuff the dictionary words in a structure that's optimized for finding exact matches - of which there are many: a database, a DBM file, or something simple as a Perl hash, Python dictionary or AWK associative array. You just want to avoid re-reading the entire dictionary from disk for each lookup.

Grim Reaper: ai is a south american sloth, my favorite 2 letter word, along with aa (a hawaiian word for lava that slipped into the language somehow).
I think once the dictionary is in place it wouldn't take that long to parse. I wouldn't like to create it though. Of course you'd have to have a version in different languages with different letters etc etc.

I would settle to use the checkers pieces - but preferably in a different colour than black or white, as those are the colours of the players.

I have recreated pictures, IMHO they looks now much better :-)

Link is same as before - http://miuek1.freelinuxhost.com/amazons.html

You can see difference between current and suggested board layout.

Hope it wasn't waste of time to create it :-)

I'd suggest to mark fischer clock games differently on the main page. Currently there is no visible difference to other no-day-off games.

I suggest using a different colour dot and also showing the bonus time. Currently this is only visible within the game.

why not a stone that takes the arrow and the stone and places them together.. Like Hey!! an arrow head.. kewl!

Black Arrowhead

or.. you could use something like this.. where it appears round.. but is shown best as more 3 dimensinal.. it even has an arrow theme to it..

Silver Rims

now.. you have satisfied both the stone and the arrow.. :)

miuek: my "stone" was painted on the fly in a few seconds in photoshop. just to make draft.
of course other colour patterns and so on can be used and other way of shadowing/lightning. No problem.

ScarletRose:

I agree with you. I want just to mention that simple picture (maybe one provided by chessmec at http://mec.tuwien.ac.at/private/mnemetz/brainking/redstone.png ) should be used. I like his picture but I think circle could by filled with other - not red - color.

BTW you can make better picture to have regular curve, but it'll have large size. I made smallest picture and then resize them - I think if you start creating every picture separatelly, they should look much better :-)

let me just say.. WOW.. so kewl for you to all put in your hard work findin them.. but, I think what fencer means when he says he doesn't care for the circular ones is how they get all pixelated when they are blown up.. so the line in the circle is not really a precise one.. it gets all uneven and it looks icky.. to say it nicely..

nobleheart: my word game idea should be relatively easy to code.

Maybe not. There are words such as "ai" and "rotl" that really do mean something in the English language (and they are not acronyms either.) You would have to parse an entire dictionary every time a player sets down a letter.

my word game idea should be relatively easy to code.

had not worked that out the idea just came to me.
I love word games but so many places are afraid of making a scrabble clones because of copyrights they agressively monitor.
I used to like the game upwords.wish I new a place to play it online.

nobleheart: Not bad... But how many letters do each person get and how many letters are there total...

letters that dont make words are no score of course

I have another idea for a game,a word game.
a board...8X8 squares.
each play takes turn placing a letter anywere on the board.
if you make a word,you score a points.words can be horizontal or vertical or diagonal.
play continues till all squares full.
2 letter word = 1 point
3 letter word = 2 point
4 letter word = 3 point
5 letter word = 4 point
6 letter word = 5 point
7 letter word = 6 point
8 letter word = 7 point
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what ye all think?

miuek: The stone idea is a very useful idea... I hope it is put in the system...

Just playing around with another idea... http://www.maj.com/gallery/BuilderQ/Board-Game-Images/arrowman.gif

Fencer:<br>
I have prepared some "set" of stones, it can be seen
here.
If you'd like to download resources, please try this link.

If you don't like stone color, you can change it of course :-)

I really liked Chessmec's stone from Mars It goes very well with the arrow theme.

grenv: It is a drinking vessel but it literally means stone.

Fencer: I've found a stone.... -

Seems good enough to me.

chessmec: I thought a Stein was what you drank beer out of!

Luke: My last post was a joke [insert laughter here]

playBunny: thanks. it is a simple "stone", OK. (In German we say often "Stein" for a figure, and "Stein" is also english stone).
OK. Tell me please which colour and pattern you wish

grenv: yes, but I gave the definition of what chessmec already drew.

Luke Skywalker: Also 14 pounds.

Stones and pebbles from which to make an image, perhaps.

grenv: From http://www.m-w.com/
4 b : a round playing piece used in various games (as backgammon or go)

chessmec: Small rock. Tiny boulder. Miniscule asteroid. Take your pick.