BrainKing - Diskusní kluby (Feature requests)

Subjekt: New tourney

Purple, Thanks. :)

23. listopadu 2005, 02:11:39

Purple

Subjekt: Re: Tourneys

Dryznik: The Purple World Fellowship will be offering some excellent Halma tournaments in the next few days with some very good players.

23. listopadu 2005, 01:51:37

Subjekt: Tourneys

Purple=I need to play the Halma tourneys here and do some lo0oking at the set up, other than than I think I should close my mouth! ;)

22. listopadu 2005, 23:00:22

ColonelCrockett

Subjekt: Re: IYT Tournaments

Purple: yes, very poetic, lol :)

22. listopadu 2005, 22:57:49

Purple

Subjekt: Re: IYT Tournaments

alanback: Yes indeed. LOL.

22. listopadu 2005, 22:04:07

alanback

Subjekt: Re: IYT Tournaments

Purple: Poetic justice, if you ask me!

22. listopadu 2005, 21:33:11

Purple

Subjekt: IYT Tournaments

In games like checkers and chess the IYT tournaments are fine until you get to the final round. There you often find two programmers left standing and as most people know when one program plays another you can get 25 draws. IYT won't declare a winner and keeps generating endless final matches..and it can go on for years. LOL.

22. listopadu 2005, 21:10:02

Subjekt: Re: Tourney sections

Dryznik: Aye, it's a round-robin. So, like Czuch asks, how is that different to here? (Except that there can be joint winners of the final section.)

22. listopadu 2005, 21:03:16

Subjekt: Tourney sections

Diogenes, Correct idea.
Czuch Chuckers, I am so used to IYT Halma 10 tournaments! Go to iyt.com, left menue column, tournament area, then click on tournaments in progress and choose one (or more) and take a look at jow they are set up. More than 1 player can win a section but play continues in next subsequent section until only one player emerges as the winner of that tournament. ;~)

22. listopadu 2005, 20:24:50

MidnightMcMedic

D'oh, guess thats what I get for thinking while taking exams

22. listopadu 2005, 20:20:59

coan.net

Subjekt: Re:

MidnightMcMedic: No, current tournaments have a min. of 4 per section - and draws are allowed.

22. listopadu 2005, 20:14:22

MidnightMcMedic

can't the tournies be set up that way? i honestly thought they could...???

22. listopadu 2005, 20:01:41

pauloaguia

Subjekt: Re: Tournaments

playBunny: there is a difference - there can be only one winner per section

22. listopadu 2005, 18:41:36

Subjekt: Re: Tournaments

diogenes: A knock-out tournament isn't that much different to a round-robin with only two players per section and no draws allowed, so I'd guess that much of the code is already available.

22. listopadu 2005, 18:37:39

diogenysos

Subjekt: Re: Tournaments

Dryznik: my "new" idea was to build up an alternative to those "round-robin"-games. to increase the thrill by the need to win each single game in order to head into the next round.... >;-B

22. listopadu 2005, 18:26:21

Czuch

Subjekt: Re: Tournaments

Dryznik: Not sure if I understand how that is different from the tournaments here on brainking?

22. listopadu 2005, 18:14:06

Subjekt: Tournaments

I like the way IYT has their tournaments set up by several sections, the winner(s) of each section goes on to round two and plays the winners of round 1, etc. until one final winner is left. IYT starts 2 tourneys a week for all kinds of games. I play Halma 10 on IYT. The invitations to the Ts are at the top of the window page and are very easy to follow, unlike the Ts on this site. I would play in such Halma 10, and Halma 16 for 4 players.

22. listopadu 2005, 15:50:03

coan.net

Subjekt: Re: elimination

diogenes: Like brackets? Yea, if so - that is one of my long-time request for this site. (like dailygammon's tournmanets)

Basicly:
Player 1 vs player 2
player 3 vs player 4

then winner of first, and the winner of the second meet and play each other

(Nothing wrong with the current tournament way, but to have additional options would be great)

22. listopadu 2005, 14:04:45

furbster

Subjekt: Re: elimination

diogenes: yeh think that would be a fun idea

22. listopadu 2005, 12:56:38

Czuch

Subjekt: Re: elimination

Socrates: I like both ideas!

22. listopadu 2005, 12:41:38

BlitzMe

Subjekt: Re: elimination

diogenes: I like that idea :) Another system that could be used is a "League" system. Much like the NBA and MLB in the USA, with regular season and post season (playoffs, knockout) play. The top players of the regular season would qualify for the post season. This system would be using mandatory games that would start automatically according to the schedule. There could be 1 league for every main game or even every game.

22. listopadu 2005, 12:41:32

Subjekt: Re: elimination

diogenes: That would be a certain 2ndment from me!

22. listopadu 2005, 11:27:47

diogenysos

Subjekt: elimination

hello, now we have "normal games", "tournaments" and "stairs"... . how about classical knock-out-tourneys where the winner heads into the next round and the one who loses is eliminated. with quarterfinals, semifinals, finals and so on? this would be a special thrill for some special tournaments! ;-)

22. listopadu 2005, 02:56:35

ColonelCrockett

Subjekt: Re:

ScarletRose: the IYT downtime was awful! however, everyone got to see a side of Pat Chu we never expected.

22. listopadu 2005, 00:36:05

Thad

Subjekt: Re:

Yes, a page that displays during scheduled (or unscheduled when possible) downtimes would be a big benefit. We'd at least know that our connections, etc. were good.

22. listopadu 2005, 00:02:49

LuckyCat9

Subjekt: Re:

ScarletRose: Yeh, they almost kicked the bucketed!

21. listopadu 2005, 23:49:06

ScarletRose

Subjekt: Re:

LuckyCat9: yes.. it was down for what.. almost 2 weeks.. OMG

21. listopadu 2005, 22:56:24

LuckyCat9

I think IYT had a horrible crash not to long ago and they had a page with constant updates regarding getting fixed, even started a blog.

21. listopadu 2005, 22:47:11

pauloaguia

Subjekt: Re: Site connection problems

Fencer: If there is a network or a connection problem, you couldn't reach the fault page anyway. It would make no sense.
Yes, but it would allow us to know the difference between a "programmed" downtime or server maitenance or something like that (BK error page kicks in) and a network problem (standard "cannot display page" error)

21. listopadu 2005, 22:28:05

Subjekt: Re: Site connection problems

playBunny: Did you just answer to yourself there or wha'?!? [sideways glancing with one eyebrow higher]

On the other hand, if somehow he decides to introduce game group ratings (by which, BTW, I actually meant separate rating SYSTEMS for game groups, but you can also have some averaging done foe eligible members of the game group) then some further delays may occur - but let's leave the operational aspect to Fencer, our Brain King (of the white variety)

21. listopadu 2005, 22:24:16

Subjekt: Re: Site connection problems

playBunny: And on the topic of normal service.. I think it's great that Filip doesn't have to take the site down for a period every day to do his backups, that the upgrades are so quick to install and that major downs, like the BKR recalulations, are so rare.

WhiteTower LOL.

21. listopadu 2005, 22:17:28

Subjekt: Re: Site connection problems

playBunny: Darn trunk lines :P

21. listopadu 2005, 22:14:25

Subjekt: Re: Site connection problems

wellywales: wellywales: Those sites have such a page when you can reach the server but it's not providing the usual service. Brainking's server is providing the usual service nearly 24 hours of the day. If you were in the Czech Republic there would be no outages or anything. The problem is the "trunk" line from there to certain other regions. Either the page request doesn't get to BrainKing, or it does and BrainKing gives the correct page in return, but that gets lost on the way back out.

21. listopadu 2005, 22:13:11

Subjekt: Re: Site connection problems

wellywales: Yes, but they don't "do" faults. What they do do is display a page notifying users of essential maintenance, like database backups etc. This is not a fault, but a regular feature, while the game server is still working fine.

What BrainKing has is another domain, BrainKing.info, for such faults and other cases, but it seems to have been forgotten for a year and a half - Fencer, any comments? :)

21. listopadu 2005, 22:11:28

Fencer

Subjekt: Re: Site connection problems

wellywales: No site is able to do it if it's unreachable due to a network problem.

21. listopadu 2005, 22:10:29

WellyWales

Subjekt: Re: Site connection problems

Fencer: I understand that but these other sites seem to be able to do it, perhaps a sister site, I don't know

21. listopadu 2005, 22:07:52

Fencer

Subjekt: Re: Site connection problems

wellywales: If there is a network or a connection problem, you couldn't reach the fault page anyway. It would make no sense.

21. listopadu 2005, 22:04:19

WellyWales

Subjekt: Site connection problems

Změněno uživatelem WellyWales (21. listopadu 2005, 22:04:58)

Fencer, is it possible to have a fault page that clicks in, as other sites like IYT, Daily Gammon, Gold token etc, that tell you there is a site fault, "please try again later", other members must have seen these, it is better then nothing at all, sometimes you don't know if it is your own computer at fault.

21. listopadu 2005, 22:00:26