(17. May 2009, 12:57:57 is the last term before timeout for this move)


To clarify.... This will include any weekend days and set vacation days? Then the only way this will change is if auto vacation day is used or if after this is posted a vacation day is set?

Can this also change if after it is posted weekend days are changed?

I am trying to use the feature to down load a zip file from a players games of dice chess.... but my windows says it doesnt recognize it and cannot open it?

Anyone know what I am talking about?

Bernice: I will keep you all updated....


Take your time...

Bernice: Try taking him off blocked users list, and then before you add him back on, then check his profile and there should be a link to remove him from your friends list then?

joshi tm: Thanks Josh... very timely....BTW, it is a red right now for anyone interested.

only sightly less than half of the respondents to this poll say they have any?

Snoopy: does it automatic remove them from there friends list


No

Fencer: Mine are gone as well...

Artful Dodger: I have the cave fellowship listed 3 times like that

Artful Dodger: Its our governments secret plan to make us so upset with the internet that we stop using computers and wont be able to research their cover up of 9/11

Artful Dodger: Me too....

Fencer, there are many people absent from the list of top money winners in poker right now, including yourself?

pauloaguia: Well, I have sometime found that some people do not understand how the payouts of a hand are worked in no limit tables, especially after an all in.


I have seen people think they have lost because it said someone else with a lessor hand had won more money than they did... but the reality is that they had simply bet a lot less than this other person, and even though the other person lost, they still appeared to have won more than the person who did win, but the reality is they had just won a lot of their won money back..... it is not possible to win more than you start a hand with, times the number of people who call.


In simple terms... if you have $5 and I have $100, and we both go all in and you win, it will show you to have won $10 and me to have won $95, thats like ley what happened...

pauloaguia: was it at a no limit table?

Bwild: I have a new fellowship.... called Poker Aces, beats Kings every time


ohhh, to keep it on topic, maybe inter fellowship poker tournaments as well?

Fencer, I did no see any mention of fellowships in regards to poker games. Is there going to be a way to have poker tables only for members of a fellowship, created by the big boss?

never mind, I got it

How do we get more chips if we get too low to get in any games?

Guess I missed something..... but what are the chips all about anyway?

pauloaguia: you are right... I guess this one has too many sides for an easy, one size fits all, solution.

Fencer, if you are going to change some pawn things around.... when you revert back to a pawn, you should not receive group fellowship messages anymore, my box is full of them, and I cant even get in there to change my preferences, it should just be automatic?

I dont see any harm letting pawns finish ponds that they have started before becoming pawns? It doesnt happen that way with tournaments, does it?

I think you can get kicked out of tournaments that have not yet started, and the same could be done with ponds, but again, I dont understand the reason to not let pawns finish their started ponds?

MadMonkey: Camelot
Camelot is a very interesting strategic game played on a 160 square board. Each player starts with 4 knights and 10 pawns which combine moving rules of checkers and halma. The goal is to capture all opponent's pieces or move two own pieces to the opponent's castle.????? This one?

anyone know about bishops as big boss of a fellowship? seems I dont have all my powers, IE to invite people or admit them when they request membership?

Tuesday: I think Vikes is confusing two seperate issues. yes I am having a problem as a bishop in the cave fellowship, and yes there is a political debate board in the debate fellowship, which I am having no problems with except all you LIBERALS !!

baddessi: Its part of a fellowship...

coan.net: Thanks, thats what i thought, I didnt say that specifically, but they said they checked everything... I will ask them again!

BTW, I have a question for you on the mcain obama thread board....

Not sure if it is a bug or not... I recently became a Bishop membership but when I go to one certain fellowship, it says i can read or write on this board? I talked to the fellowship owner, but they said its not on their end, please help? Thanks!

Artful Dodger:

Dream on...


Anywho, I just spoke with Reza, he sends his regards to you Fencer!

rabbitoid:

I'm gone forever. I had a wonderful time playing, but I have decided it's time to move on.

To Fencer: I am ashamed I never finished translating BK into Persian. I appreciate the excellent site and the marvelous atmosphere. Keep up the good work. I wish you every happiness and the best of luck.

To all my friends: I will not be back. If you want to contact me, my e-mail address is reza.kassaei@yahoo.com. Feel free to send me a mail or two. A select few of you will be forever in my heart. I will not forget the good time and all the good games that we had. I wish you the very best both on BK and in real life.

Reza Kassaei, July 1st, 2008.

The blog says a tournament open to everyone, even those who cannot afford to pay, yet some people like me do not have any brains, so how can everyone enter, even us with no brains? Only 29 people in the first attempt, that is a successful start?

Artful Dodger: In your dreams....

In light of the latest blog submission, I am curious if there are more people with administrative access than just Fencer and Liquid?

With Fencer away on holiday, it seems like a lot of responsibility for just one person to handle?

If there are others, could the list be updated please?

Fencer: Speaking of statistics.... do we have a calculation for a persons average daily moves anywhere?

coan.net: I have a whole fellowship (IE paying members), dedicated to multi player games, full of people waiting for that one too!

Fencer,I dont think anyone will disagree that you have a great site here, and that you certainly are more responsive to our wants and needs than any other site owner.... having said that, my opinion is that people would prefer quality over quantity, and you have provided many new innovations when the old ones are not yet perfected.

For example, you rating system is adequate, but it is not state of the art, and there is no reason for the best turn based game site on the web to not have the best possible ratings sytems.

You wasted a lot of time begrudgingly implementing an auto pass type of system that people do not find adequate or meeting our requirements, and you get nothing but greif for your efforts.

You gave us ponds to alleviate our craving for multi player type of games, but I dont remember one update made to the format that has been requested, IE more control in the number of players or other variables like the amount of the bonus etc

I understand there is a lot to do and a lot of requests and you really can never please everyone. But you have only added to the amount of requests and complaints by adding and adding before perfecting.

Like I said before.... the best gamesite on the web should have the best of everything, not the most

MadMonkey: Why bother when all of the real money is in a brainface type of website?

alanback: yeah, it doesnt really matter much anyway, except maybe you can tell me how, when I time out in a pond in the first round, and then a year later I have my rating calculated and I go from 2400 to 1900, that really is a measure of my ability?

Obviously if you want to measure my true ability in pond games, then I am a lot closer to 2400 than to 1900....

Dont misunderstand me, I fully realize that I messed up in a big pond, and my rating will reflect that, but why does it have to wait until the whole pond is finished? I should have gotten that 1900 rating a year ago and moved on from it, instead, I spend a year building my BKR in other smaller games, only for waste. It just doesnt make any sense to me

AbigailII: Wouldn't 1800 make more sense than using 2200 in this particular case?


Not really, since the only way someone would have such a bkr drop is if they had timed out on a bunch of games or something strange like that. I would think it would be more fair to take their "true" ranking, not the one they got from a bunch of timer outs?


Anyway, any comments on doing a pond bkr straight away after a person has actually fallen and therefore technically already lost the game? Why wait for the whole pond to finish, especially like the one I mentioned, where I could have finished another 50 or 100 ponds since I fell in that one and the time it actually finished?

"Splash, you fell in the pond. Old BKR 2315 new BKR 2245."

Instead of... ""your pond is finished 1 year after you fell, your BKR when you splashed was 2315, your BKR now is 2600, your new BKR 1950"!

scottsan: click on the link to one of your started games on your main page.

alanback: Well, using the example of a tournament, if I want to play in a tournament with all people who have a similar BKR as myself, maybe because the game has a high luck value, so I make it for only people with a BKR over 2200, then the game goes on for a year and some guy beats me but they now have a 1800 BKR, does that make sense to use their 1800 BKR instead of the one we both started with?


Okay, how about with ponds then? I sign up for a large pond with 200 people and my BKR is 1900. My computer goes down and I miss the first round and come in last place. In the mean time my BKR rises to 2400 by the time this other game finally ends, and then I am killed because now I have lost to everyone else, most of whom have a lower BKR now than mine!

Shouldnt at least in ponds the rating be calculated at the time you actually lose, rather than when the thing finally ends?

coan.net: Okay, thanks, I can see it both ways now, i guess....


I think it doesnt make sense in many ways because so many games last too long on a turn based site. It just doesnt make any sense in a game that can last over a year to base the new BKR on where we are at the end of the game instead of the beginning, does it?

I need some help please...

I thought BKR was calculated on what our BKR was when a game starts with someone, but it seems like it is actually calculated based on what our BKR is when the game actually finishes????

It doesnt make sense, since we are told during our in game play what the expected BKR change will be if we win or lose or tie, so why is it actually calculated based on when the game finally ends?

So, for example, if I want to play only people with a similar BKR to myself, but the game lasts for a year, i might end up playing against someone who is either far superior or far inferior to me, and my rating will reflect that?????

Jim Dandy: Im thinking I am glad I did not buy a lifetime membership, unless it would carry over to any "new" site, and as long as i live for another 60 years too!

But seriously, i think it can only be a good thing for fencer to expand the scope of this site, and i welcome it, I just want a piece of the IPO, thats all!

Bernice: Its hard to miss

Not a personal complaint, as I dont mind at all, and I like the recent updates on this site, but it seems like a lot of "non game playing" stuff for a "game playing" site?

Just so long as I get in on the IPO.... yet it seems to me this place is gearing up for something much bigger than just a turn based game playing site?

Bjornalmar: You are still able to play a fast game with someone even if the time limits are set for a week or more....

I would look at the quick players club list and find someone online and send them an invite to play a game through to completion.... its probably better to make the time limit a bit longer than an hour though, just in case someone has a problem for some reason, and you dont want to lose because of a time out.


The very best option though is to become a paying member and start so many games that you always have moves to make in some games.

I am curious about the access code? I just recently see about it in my profile, but I dont remember hearing anything about it before?

Roberto Silva:

Fencer, have you made any firm decision about another multi player game yet?

My Ponds Plus fellowship is dedicated to all of the multi player games here, but pond runs are getting quite lonely