tonyh: I know it's not the answer you are looking for, but what I would do is get some blank overhead projection sheets (Clear plastic paper), put them in a small binder. Get some dry erase markers and just draw your boards out. Very easy erase/write - you can make your board "big" and put a list of 3-5 pieces you might think is in a certain spot, etc... a lot more then what you could probable do with an on-line note board. (plus easier then to have Fencer program it also!)

... just an idea.

BBW (BIG BAD WOLF)

In the Players List, you can sort by "Level".

There are 3 King/Queen accounts
There are 172 Rook accounts
There are 81 Knight accounts

Hope this helps!

BBW (BIG BAD WOLF)

Yea, one of my big things I would like to see is have any personal notes moved closer to the board (possible right above it) - or possible give users an option of where they would like it.

I ALWAYS will play a move, go down to submit and BOOM - Opps, there is my note from last time of what I was planning to do - so I would have to backup and do the move over again - that is if I wasn't in a rush and already hit submit while I was reading my own notes... :-(

OK, #3 new game idea.

3. Domino Gammon.
- You start the game with choosing 3 domino tiles (or randomly assigned). So for example, you have a 2/4, 6/6, 0/2. Well on each turn, you can choose which one of the 3 tiles you would like to use to move your backgammon pieces. So for example you can choose the 6/6 as double sixes. After the turn, that piece is replaced with a new domino piece - and you keep the 2 unused pieces until your next turn. What this also does is the other player DOES see your tiles, so he will know the 3 possible "rolls" you will have and can plan his move around it - keeping you blocked for instance. Also, if you do not have any moves with any of your tiles, when you pass - you can also replace a tile with a new tile.

I would say all 4 pieces get sent to the bar.

I have a couple of ideas for a couple of game variations that I would like to see.

1. Dark Backgammon Race (or Regular/Nack/Crowded?)
- Basicly just like regular backgammon. You don't see ANY place that you don't have your own piece, so you will never be "blocked" and allowed to move to any place.

Now when you move to a place that is open, your piece stays there. If you move to a place that only has 1 opponent piece, you take it like normal gammon. If you move to a place that has 2 or more oppenent pieces, your piece will be placed back to the bar like it was taken out.

So this game would involve a lot more strategy - making you want to set up many places of 2 or more pieces to take away your opponents pieces when they land on you.

I believe this would be better as Dark Battleboats Race. Also I'm debating if it would be good to hide the opponents dice or not.

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2nd game idea!
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2. Backgammon Attack.
- Basicly it is the same as Backgammon, but with the rule that you can also win once you land and move your oppenets piece to the bar for the 10th time. I also think this would be good as Backgammon Race Attack - since then you could try to keep many of your own pieces in your own bar to come out and "attack" unprotected pieces that have been places in your area.

BBW (BIG BAD WOLF)

*** Note: I've added a copy of this post on the Backgammon and Nackgammon Discussion board so if you have coments on this idea, you can post them there!

Actually for mine, it is now gone - but on my friends account who does not play as ofter as I do, it is still on the main page.

So it might have to do with how many times it loads or something. (Guess we will have to wait for Fencer to let us know how it determins how long it stays up there!) :-)

I think what is wanted is multi-point games, like 5, 9, & 21 point games.... with the use of a double cube. I would also like to see this here.

As I look at the stuff in development (above), I see Reversi Race. What is Reversi Race? (How is it different from regular Reversi?)

As a side note, you can currently play a version of Hex and Twixt at LittleGolem.net -- so if anyone wanted to take a look at them, you can find those there!

I would be for adding them here. They are "different" games that are not found too many other on-line places.

BBW (BIG BAD WOLF)

Is there any plans on stopping the clock for games? For the past two days, each time I have had a lot of free time to play games, I kept getting the "server is at it's max" message. Now I have a few days where I have little time to play games, and 188 games that need played! UGH! (Usually I would have them all played in the past 2 days, but with server problems....)

So a message to the other players I'm playing - sorry for the delay in our games - probable be a couple of days until I can sit down and play all my games (unless there are more server problems, and it might be longer... :-( )

Yea, I have now found that I have that bug for at least 2 of the discussion boards (That is, the bug that the new message does not show up next to the discussion board)

Fencer - is there some way to reset a users "message count" for the discussion boards - or however they are kept track of.... maybe that would fix the problem.

I was unaware that it was a paid member only option (but makes since - since non-paid users don't have many games and would not need something like that)

Fencer - Are there other little things that are for paid members only - if so, it might help to list them somewhere (possible on the paid membership page) - you never know which little feature a user will like which might make them pay for a membership! :-)

I'm not sure if my problem is the same that was listed below, but I just recently used this option for the first time, and here is what happened.

Game is up - I hit "Play Later"
- Goes to next game
- Play next game and hit submit (go to next game)
- goes back to the game that I wanted to play later (this time with no option to choose "play later" again.)

... now I'm not sure if that is how it is suppose to work, but it would be nice it "play later" would move it to the bottom of my list of games. (Since I still have 100+ unplayed games)

... I hope I explained that well enough. :-)

BBW (BIG BAD WOLF)

I know in tournaments, some of them can be set up where you play 2 games with each person - one of each color.

Fencer said awhile back it was on his to-do list to do the same for non-tournament games. (Not sure how far up/down on the list it is)

But if that does come along, if you are worried about which color you are, you may just want to try to play the 2 games (one of each color) games.

I just remember to change the .com to .info if for some reason .com is not working... :-)

Fencer: Seems to work now! :-)

Well if you ever need any help testing things, I would be happy to help - I'm good at playing around and "finding" things that are wrong. :-)

I'm a programmer, so I understand the problems. (Actually I'm a network person now - don't do much programming now, but still understand)

Fix 1 bug, get 2 more bugs.
Fix those 2 bugs, get 4 more bugs.
... and so on... and so on... :-)

I believe I'm doing it correct - the box that says "Move and go to:"

I'll choose a totaly different game like Backgammon, but it will still go to a Stack4 game which was next in the list.

(It's not a big deal for me since I normally don't use this feature - just testing it since others said they had problems) :-)

Could the problem be that on the "Move" button, I have the "Set this action as default" for the "go to the next game" - and it is somehow taking over the "Move and go to:" button below it also?

Mine is not working either.

It must be one of those things like the (XX new) messages next to the message board - works for some, not for others. :-)

Is there a way that if you have someone on your enemies list, it will also block having to read their messages on the message boards?

Sometimes there are people who post "garbage" that would be nice to be able to skip - and not have to wait for a moderator to come along and delete it.

I think Fencer had said it is on his to-do-list to order the games by time, but it takes some extra processing power, so he was either going to updated things first, or try to find out how to do it without slowing the site down anymore.

How I get around it when I have a few games that are close to timing out - is I will open each of the games I'm short on time in a new window (so I'll have 5-6 windows open - each with games that need played quickly.) Or if you don't like to do that, just always submit and go back to main page - and pick the next game according to time... (Until Fencer can get this implemented.)

Hope this helps!

BBW (BIG BAD WOLF)

When it was first talked about making the dropdown box, I did not think I would like it - but since you can make it a "default" for the option you like the best - I like it! :-)

ONE SUGGESTION: Is there a way to make the submit button that is next to the drop down box bigger? I would say at least the same size as the "Move and go to:" button.

On my "Main page", I have for the total number of started games as: 149 + 1

Now I know the "+ X" number is the games that are just waiting for the tournament creater to start - and with it just being a "1", I'm guessing it is a 2nd round where only 2 players have advanced (meaning only 1 game)

My problem is that it has been on there for about a week now, I have looked to see if there are any waiting tournament for me, and there are none. I have also looked through the running games, and have found nothing.

Is there any way I can find out what this "+ 1" game is?

Thanks in advance!

BBW (BIG BAD WOLF)

runningwolf: Go into "Settings" - then pick the tab that says "Calendar" - Here you can set your Vacation Days & change your weekend days if you need to.

Hope this helps!

BBW (BIG BAD WOLF)

A couple of other simple games vatiations that shouldn't be too hard to bring to this site - possible Dark Gothic Chess, Dark Janus Chess, Dark .... other Chess?

I like Dark Chess since I feel I have more of an advantage (since I stink at regular Chess), and to bring the Darkness to a couple of the other types of chess would be very interesting... plus I would not think too hard to program. :-)

Well I think if someone can come up with a good way to make a turn-based game out of cards, dice, or some other non-board game, I say go for it - make this site a little more different!

... but I don't really see how Pool would be very good at a turn-based site. As I see card games now, I don't see them being very good at a turn-based site either - but I would always be open to suggestions on how they could be! :-)

A trivia board would be a cool addition. A board that I would like to see is a "problems" board where people can post when the have problems with games or other things.

I still have a problem with only this board that the (XX new) message does not show up with only this board.

I don't like to keep bringing up this problem I'm having, but it makes me have to check this board out over and over to see if their are any new post here.

(plus if it were to happen to one of the boards that I moderate, a lot of post might happen before I even go and look at the problem!) :-)

While looking through old post, I found one from October 2002 that suggested Yatzee as a game.

I think that would be a cool game to add here. (Plus I would not think it would be to complex to program either.)

... plus is there any way to edit (or remove) the notes you already have. I sometimes add to them, and the old notes to myself stays there in the way - if there was a way to remove them and/or edit them - that would be cool also! :-)

I use up to 3-4 different computer in a day - and some of the computers have a "clean" boot from a boot image every time they are turned on - meaning no cookies, no nothing. No trace of any past activities. So I'm pretty sure it is not on my side.

yea, it is pretty interesting. I'm not sure how this site keeps track of how many un-read messages in each board, but to me it just seems that possible the "counter" for me on the Feature board got corrupted or something - so it is not keeping the correct count.

And since it is not everyone, it has to be something just with my account, and not the board.

Here is my current problem, which it seems it is not happing to many people - but for this board only, I do not see the (XX new messages) message which shows up next to the room when their are new messages.

This message does not appear in my Favourite Boards list, and does not appear when I click on the main "discussion boards" link.

One of the reasons I keep on bringing this up is I'm not sure if this is the only board I'm having this problem - it's the only board that I've noticed - and being a Moderator for some of the boards - I would hate for this feature to be "broke" on those boards also - or it might be weeks before I check on them....

Is anyone who mentioned that were also having problems with this way below still having this problem, or am I the only one now?

My boards are now in alphabetically order - But I'm still not getting the (XX new) next to this board.

All the other boards, I get the (XX new), but just not this one.

My favourites also were in different order today. It does not really bother me that they are not in alphabetically order, but if they start switching around - that does mess me up a little. (and when I still do not get notice of post in this message board - just have to come and keep looking for find them.)

A board just for bugs and errors would be good. I started posting the current bug since it affected this board (for me at least)

And no, removing and re-adding did not fix the problem for me.

Hum... it must just be me... (and of course I did not know there was a new message in here until I come and look!) Ugh!

Well I just removed this board from my favourite boards, and re-added. Now just to wait for someone to post a new message here (HINT HINT) and I'll see if that helped fix my problem. :-)

I have this board on my "Favourite boards" list, but for some reason - I do not get the "XX new messages" for this board.

I seems to be working for the rest of my favourite boards, but not this one.

Anyone else having this problem?

Well I was getting ready to write what tournament(s) I win in my profile.... but if there was a list in our profile of tournament wins, that would be nice.. (and save me time in editing my profile) :-)

Currently I don't think anything happens of special when you win a tournament - unless you go search the finished tournaments, you name is now in yellow! :-)

I found the "finished tournament" that I was in on the bottom of the Tournament list page.

When I went to my profile, and choose only to look at "finished" tournaments, Nothing shows up.

Just thought I would mention it so you can look at it when you have some time!

BBW (BIG BAD WOLF)

I think it would be nice if the winner of a tournament to get a message saying "congrates on winning" or something".

Why I say that is I usually just play games, and I don't really pay attention on how I'm doing in the tournament. As I look through some of the past tournament, I noticed I won one of them - Cool! I can see how I could have missed this if I did not go searching.... and will get worse as more tournaments finish and the list gets longer and longer.

Just an idea... thanks, and keep up the good work!

BBW (BIG BAD WOLF)

First: I play games from a fast public computer part of the day - which I always Logout before I leave the computer. Earlier today when I got ready to leave, I ran into a problem - the site was temporarly down for an "upgrade". So that left me with 2 things I could do: (1) wait for who knows how long until the site comes back up so I can "logout" or (2) leave myself logged in and hope no one gets in there and messes things up.

I'm not sure if it is possible, maybe something you (Fencer) can think about - but possible being able to logout while the site is down for upgrades? I was lucky that I had an extra 5 minutes to wait and logout, but sometimes I do not have the extra time to wait.

Second Suggestion:

I really like having a list of Favourite Boards and a list of the Fellowships that I belong to on my main page..... but I find it king of wasting space to have both the Fellowship & the Fellowship board listed. Would there be a way to "combine" the two - that is in the list of Fellowships thats on the right of my screen, put the (2 new) message there instead of having to place the board in my favourite just to find out there are new post there.

BBW (BIG BAD WOLF)

As a general comment / suggestion - I would love to see more games here that is not found on ItsYourTurn (Other then Battleboats... I would love to see that here!)

But as I look at the features in development - I'm very interested in Jungle because 1) I never played it 2) I don't know what it is 3) I have not seen it on other sites.

One of the reasons I like Littlegolem.net is because they have a few games that are not on other sites - like DVONN, Hex, Word Game, and Twist.

So as a general request - I would love to see new and different games here. (plus Battleboats!) :-)

BBW (BIG BAD WOLF)

As for how the Discussion board is setup on IYT, I also do not like that much.

If I was to set up a discussion board, the only example on a game site that I can think of is LittleGolem.net - that is you see just see all the subjects - and how many replies are in the subject. Once you click on the message thread that you want to read - ALL messages in the thread are displayed. That way if you want to read about a certain topic, you can - and if you want to not read about a topic, you don't have to!

But again, I would rather see new games fixed then have the time spent on the discusion board.... this is a game site, not a chat site anyway... :-)

I personally do not like how the discussion boards are set up because it is hard to know what messages someone is repling to (Except if they are good about doing something like: Reply to Fencer: ...).

But I would rather see Fencer's time developing new games like Battleboats (which hopefully will come soon) then to see his time improving the discussion board. (Maybe something to look at once he runs out of other things to do...)

BBW (BIG BAD WOLF)

Exactly - and if there were 2 different ratings (one for fun non-tournament, and one for tournaments), that would solve a lot of the problems that was described before.

That way the people who come here and play for fun - play non-tournament games with frieds will still have a rating system to help judge their skills.

... I quickly read through the last 20 or so message, so if this has been suggested as a solution, sorry.

Why not have 2 types of ratings? 1 for non-tournament games, and 1 for tournament games. This way if people just want to play the "easy win" games, they can do it as a non tournament - but play tournament games where your color is random (if it's not a new 2 player match), and a little more accurate of a players true skills.

Do you mean if I want to go look at someone elses past games? (and go through the moves they made).

I have already looked at some of the top players moves on past games for some games I'm trying to learn - so I guess that is already there (if that is what you are asking).

I'm looking forward to Battleboats on this site - hopefully it will be here soon! :-)

But I was thinking of a different vatiation of Battleboats - that is it being played on a "hex" type board. So instead of boats just going up or down, you can have boats going in an additional direction also!