it appears that timeouts have been suspended... seems like that has been happening a lot lately

tippyc: hey, its working now

im guessing im not the only one the games wont load for, judging by the other posts. actually, none of the bk pages are loading completely right now. the pictures arent loading. i can only see wetware's avatar, none of the other pictures EDIT: except for smileys

i think that the BK pages are a little bigger than some others, and consequently take longer to load. all the links, the pictures, and javascript all add to the load time. brainking has a lot of these kinds of things

Vikings: it does take some getting used to.

after reading all of this, i turned off the castle, and i like it

rod03801: i see him, but ive got another problem: when i hit the reply box button, nothing happens.

Dolittle: well i pm'd fencer when i noticed it, and now that last move has been erased. hope it doesnt happen again.

Game ID: 2790005

it somehow added i think 30 extra pieces

rod03801: thanks.

is there a way that i can easily find out which (if any) stairs i am currently in?

redfrog:

this is on the first page of defining a new game, at the top it says

"Use this form to create a new game with non-specified opponent name. The game invitation will be posted to "Waiting Games" area where can be picked by any player."

it should say

"Use this form to create a new game with non-specified opponent name. The game invitation will be posted to "Waiting Games" area where it can be picked by any player."

rabbitoid: i actually lol'd at that one

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

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.

Tigger & everyone else: to be a good dice poker player, it seems that you need to know what to do with the rolls you get, that you know what to do with the bad rolls and wait for the good ones to come. Backgammon seems to rely more on what the roll is, but if you dont know how best to use the two dice values you will still be a lousy player.

on a side note: people tend to forget that the probability of an event occurring is not reliant on the previous event. that means that just because someone got (in backgammon) double 6's on their last roll doesn't mean that they have any less of a chance to get double 6's next time. the probability of getting double 6's on any given roll is always exactly 1/36. the same concept applies to all dice rolls.

coan.net: thanks for the help

Is the time limit for the pond for one person's move or for the whole round, meaning that everyone has to move within those three days?

trohat: it always used to show smilies for me, but when i got my membership (thanks madmonkey!) it showed them about half the time. i checked the settings and found that show smilies wasn't selected. i dont know if it was selected or not before i got the membership

coan.net: uno might work pretty well

Marfitalu: is liar poker also known as B.S.?

because if it is, that one might actually work with turns

AbigailII: i hadnt thought of it that way :) maybe the previous moves column could show what had been played. the computer could remember instead of the person. that might raise other problems though....

how about a card game like gin rummy or maybe cribbage?

just an idea for future updates

Fencer: thats a very good reason.

the point is, why did they merit a whole blog entry? thats a rhetorical question. (don't answer it). im sure that there is something more relevant to brainking to talk about.

Tigger: i bet it was an upgrade added in the recent changes

i have never had any problems. im on a mac G5running the safari browser and cable internet

Eriisa: i guess that makes sense. like it checks for timed out games every 5 or 10 minutes, and ends them if it finds them. the game ended at -5 minutes

Espionage Normal game Tsonchu black 13. -2 mins

this line was copied from my opponents turn table. why didnt it end the game at 0 minutes?

can pawns not delete games? i dont see an option

nodnarbo: to drag up an earlier topic again: thanks. i hadnt realized that you could block unrated games

Vikings: i have nothing against the game, my objection is to the ridiculus amount of outstanding invitations he has

why does robtoo need 230 invitations for unrated anti checkers?

it looks like most of the bandwidth represented by those 5000 games is currently being wasted by robtoo. i guess he, like anyone else, has a right to post invitations to games, but isnt 200 a little much?

alanback: i think the xx will show you the language that the page was originally written in, which in most cases will probably be english, maybe czech

just a guess, but it might be helpful

Eriisa & emmett: thanks for the prompt response. i guess we will just have to wait and see what they are good for.

im kinda new and i have a couple questions that i couldnt find answers for on my own.

what are action points?
what are they good for?

tippyc: in that i cant seem to find an edit post button, ill add this here: i would like to clarify that i like playing short games (such as dice poker) with a .1/0/.1 clock

i wish there was a way to hide an invitation.

i like to play short .1/0/.1 games, but i dont want any invitations that i send to remain open when im not online to play them. the only way to do that (and i might be missing something) is to delete them. however, creating new invitations when i log on again is tedious and feels like a waste of time, especially if my invitation is not accepted.

is there a way to do this?
if not, has anyone else ever had this thought?

(maybe this could be considered for a future update...)