BIG BAD WOLF: Agreed, since i've put on my profile i'm not accepting any new game invites a few weeks ago i must of been invited at least 10-15 times.

Gordon Shumway: I would like an setting so that no one can even invite me to a game. I decline just about 100% of the invites to me because usually I only play tournament games (except for a few new games - which I post in the waiting room).

So if I had an option to say "no game invites", when someone gets ready to invite me to a game, they would not be able to.

AbigailII: You can reject all invitations but just not automagically - you have to do two clicks ;)

1) mark the check box "mark all invitations" or similar
2) click the decline button

Fencer: It very well may be that feature 11 (reject all invitations) is already implemented, but if it is, I can't find the setting for it.

Fencer: Yes not only to autopass, but also to automove ? Great news, many autothanks !!

Fencer: Is that a 'no' to the boats games set ups?(I got confused again!)

AbigailII: Ludo (with both players having autopass and automove turned on, it
would be possible that the system finishes the game from start)



I never did understand the popularity of this game! It must be that many people enjoy game playing only as a way to pass their time, without any benefit from using their brains?

AbigailII: Yes, yes, no, no, no, yes, yes, yes, yes, no, yes (isn't is already implemented?), yes.

rabbitoid: Good idea and perhaps do not allow tourneys with no time limit. █▓▒░Èajovna v šachu

how about the following proposal:

- only in case of a game with no time control
- in case one opponent has been absent for more than 1 month (vacation excluded)
- permit the opponent to delete the game by himself at any move, with no BKR / stat change.

nabla: Right.

WellyWales: Unlike the others I think that it is an excellent proposal. It is very different from controlling one's game number by oneself. It would be much easier if the system could reject automatically challenges, or kick the person out of a tournament when it starts (who can know at subscrition time how many games he will have at the time when a tournament will start?). I think this is the way it works for pawns, so very little more to implement.

Actually, I would have become a paying member much sooner if I could have set a limit on my number of games.

rod03801: Actually move and go to next game with most moves does not work quiet so well since you can easily have a lot of passes and keep jumping on each other putting a game near the beginning after many moves.

TKR101010: I hope the request for Chu shogi is not overlooked. It is a great game and few offer it.

mctrivia: Move and go to Next game with most moves, works good for finding Ludo games close to completion. Of course you may run into those Anti-backgammon or other longer games!

The ability to flag certain games, and have a "Move and go to next flagged game" option would also help with this!

WellyWales: You can see how many games u have going by looking at your started games list, that should give you an idea. Or just dont sign up for any. Or, if you have signed up for Tournaments, but not to sure how many you have signed up to, go to your Tournaments tab and click on the "waiting or open" tab, there you will see what u have joined up to.

Greetings all,

Any word on when Chu Shogi may be added to the site?

Thanks,

TKR101010

WellyWales: You could try paying attention :-)

We hear of so many people saying they have to many games going and trying to cut them down.......is there a way we can impose our own limit to stop us signing up to to many games....most of us are unaware of how many games we have going.

Fencer: I don't care what color. Any color.

You say "people" complained, but as far as I can tell there was only one: Walter Montego. I agree with him, by the way, that the best solution would be to let each user choose a color for each game type.

In the absence of user-configurable colors, I think it's best to have a different color for each game with nonstandard rules or objectives.

It's true that we could function without any colored borders, by taking the extra half-second to look at the game name. But the current situation, in which almost every nonstandard game has its own color but one does not, is the worst system I can think of. The colored borders used for Berolina Chess, Ambiguous Chess, Loop Chess, etc., lead one to expect that any game without such a border is played with standard rules and objectives. And while it only takes half a second to glance at the game name, one has to make a conscious effort to do this.

Fencer: You heard the wolf!

I would like a

"move and goto next game of same type with least points" option would be great for finding games almost done in ludo

grenv: No - I have 300+ games (too many, but hopefully I will get that down soon) - Anyway, I usually play my games in order of time left - so 1 game will be backgammon, next chess, next battleboats, next dice chess, next etc.....

So no, i do not remember my strategy from my previous moves (probable why I'm not a good chess players) - for games like the line games, i will leave myself notes in the game so I know what I'm doing when i have the next 4 moves planed out.

But usually, i'm trying to make my moves as fast as possible to get to the next game - so when a game comes up, my eyes go directly to the game board - and if the game board looks like backgammon - my mind goes into backgammon mode - if the board looks like a chess board - my mind goes into a chess mode. But unless something stops my mind (like a colored border), i will miss what type of chess game I'm playing - and hence with the Extenction chess being a game in which you play completely different from regular chess - and if something isn't there to jump out at me, I end up playing it like regular chess which of course can be bad. (All the other chess games which look like regular chess but with different rules are already OK with different color borders - it is just this one for some reason that is not colored.)

grenv: I agree to BBW. If all different rules have colored borders, why not Extinction Chess?

BIG BAD WOLF: But when you click on the game to play, don't you know what game your clicking on? When you see the position, don't you remember your strategy from the last move?

The problem is when the board looks just like another, it is easy to confuse what game you are playing. All other Chess variants which look the same as regular chess but have very different rules are a different color except for 1 - Extinction chess. (which of course the easiest solution is to give it a different border.)

Berolina - redish border
Knight Relay - Dark Green border
Legan - Bluish border
3 checks - light green
Cylinder - greenish
Amazon Chess - Green
Ambiguoues - Blue
Atomic - Dark Blue
Loop - Light Blue
Anti - Red

All the rest either play just like chess (Crazy screen), or have a completly different setup (Maharajah) that you don't need a border since it is easy to tell you are playing a different game.

Extinction Chess looks just like regular chess, but you can't play it like regular chess - you have to play it differently, yet it does not have a different border color.

And it's not about memorizing the colors - seeing a different color for me at least quickly tells me there is something special about the game, which then leads me to look at the game name.

Heck - if it is such a big deal that this one game does not have a color - then lets get rid of the colors for all the Chess games. Of course I'll stop playing those also.

Pedro Martínez: You're right about the remembering - I don't remember any color, but the fact alone that the board is of a different color makes me aware that I am not playing the default variant. And the fact that every chess variant is of a different color makes my brain - which is kind of lazy - believe that I am playing normal chess if there is no border. This doesn't mean that I won't notice it at all - but at least the chances are very much higher that I'll ignore the name of the game.

And Extinction Chess is a special case I think. In most variants either the possible moves are different - as in BB+ - or the effect of them is not of any difference - as in Pro Five-in-Line. While in E.C. a normally not-so-bad move could make you lose the game without further notice.

Gordon Shumway: Oh, you're right...:) I just don't pay attention to the colors. It's way easier to look at the name of the game than remember all the colors...

Jason: I think this is an odd comparison. Think of a situation where there are about 20 different kinds of fuels around which you may not mix - and you can easily determine which one to take by the color of the car. Except fuel No. 12 and No. 7 cars are both black.

There is different colours for swap and pro line too

Gordon Shumway: For Battleboats plus, and dark battleboats, there's a different board color, i can assure that

Pedro Martínez: Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't there different colors for pro-5-in-line and bb+? And small fast esp is easily recognized by the lack of vulcans ;)

BIG BAD WOLF:" To lose a game because you did not know what game you are playing is just stupid - it is a stupid way to lose, and a stupid way to win against someone else. To lose because you got beat in the game you are playing - then that is OK."


I hope you dont borrow someones car and put diesel in instead of petrol ... oh but i guess you would make sure you know what fuel to use before filling up ,
.

Will we also have different colors for pro 5-in-line? Small fast espionage? Battleboats plus? Corner checkers? Etc? Etc?

KotDB: I would agree with you that games with the same board, but having different rules needs something like a different color border to make the game 'stand out' and tell you not to play the game like regular chess. Of course I've stopped playing Extinction Chess since when I start playing games, my eyes go strait to the board and don't spend the extra time looking closly at the name of the game - so I end up playing it like regular chess which of course is bad.

Since there is a small amount of players who do not like this game to have a different color, then what Walter Montego said would be a great suggestion.

Make a "chess board color" tab in the settings.

Have 3 options - (1) All boards with same white border, (2) default BK with each board different - having a different color picked for each game (default choice - like current, except all games having different color boarder), or (3) Pick colors for each game below

Then list each game with a drop down box that list 25 colors in which the person can go through each game and click the color they want for each.

Anyway, bottom line in my opinion - if the boards look the same, and the rules are different - there needs to be a different border color for each. To lose a game because you did not know what game you are playing is just stupid - it is a stupid way to lose, and a stupid way to win against someone else. To lose because you got beat in the game you are playing - then that is OK.

KotDB heavenlyemma: And I'd like to repeat that I like the border as it is. I did suggest that Fencer enable the settings so each player could change the border for each game. Then you could have your pink border and I could have it as it right now.

Fencer: How about bright pink? LOL

KotDB: When I did it, people complained about it. What color do you suggest?

furbster: If you think of a smart way to alter it and still maintain the great playability, I can do it.

I'd like to repeat the frequent request for a colored border for Extinction Chess.

KotDB: thanks for the quick reply. That is a shame :o( I wonder if it can be recreated in a slightly altered way?

furbster: Quarto is a wonderful game, but apparently Gigamic won't allow Fencer to implement it. (See here and here.)

hey, i don't know if this has been suggested before or not so i thought i'd give it a bash.

It's called Quarto, i've just been playing it with one of my friends on msn messenger and it's really easy to learn.

It's sort of the same principle as connect 4 but has a few differences.

Why are Froglet's games mixed up with "Other" games?
Battleboats is a category with 3 similar games. Same with Go. Why not a Froglet category then?
Now that I'm at it, Attax and Assimilation are very close to Reversi games too. So, maybe they all should be included in the same category?

Just a thought!

Just a simple request Fencer, that i found a bit of a pain when sorting Teams out.
We have dots telling us if we are in a Team entered or not in a Team.
Could the Bosses have another colour dot so we know which Tournaments we already have Teams for. Once the first few Teams are entered and people join various Teams, and with different Captains, its very easy to lose track where the Fellowship has got to entering what Team Tournaments when there are so many.
Maybe a blue dot on the Team Tournament page to just denote, Fellowship has a Team entered in that Tournament.

emmett: That I wouldn't aggree with. You may want to test some openings with a particular color, or choose some color to give some advantage to your opponent when you're playing with a weaker friend or trying to teach a new game...

How about always having random color selections when creating a new game?

how about, when creating a "new game", in the colour choice, add to "black" and "white" also "random" which means that the color will be selected at random when the invitation is accepted.

FrancescoLR: in sports players change teams all the time yet we still keep stats of when they win and how often they win.