I really wish members would stay out of ppls private lives,it's really none of anybodys business.

ScarletRose: Just be patient. There are more things to be released this year. It's too early to specify them.

So Fencer.. how can us lifers continue to show support? Is there still a store? And why is it your Wife stopped designing T-Shirts..

I am not leaving the site at this time, just stepped down from moderating. I am working alot of odd hours, have alot going on with my family life and yes, have some trouble with my internet...some of it due to a transition from RR to comcast in my area...and probably some problems with the site here...so yes, my pages load slowly, but I have no problems with anyone on the site here and am do not want my leaving to be viewed as "being on the front lines of discontent".

We have some great new globals, and I felt that with Hrqls, coan.net and redfrog taking care of things here, this board was in good hands without me, so stepped down. That's really all there is to it. They can give the time and attention the board needs and I'm just not able to do it at this time.

Thanks to those of you for your kind words and support, but really that's all there is to it.

But can't resist one more time saying...

please return this board to its intended purpose, brainking, it's structure, features and future.

And.... thanks for understanding

redfrog: I trust he reads this board,that should do the trick.

Jim Dandy: sounds like a good idea - hrqls would be the one to ask - and maybe in a PM?? Thanks!

redfrog: maybe the definition of " use the board as its intended" needs to be redefined.

A recurring topic, an off topic, an untrue topic - all rolled into one...baddessi has her reasons, which are distorted in posts here - please get the posts here back on topic.... thanks!

anything else along this line will just be removed for the sake of those wishing to use the board as its intended...
thanks!

beach: She did not leave the site, she only stepped down from moderating the boards. Hopefully, after a break, she will mod again.

Jim Dandy: hahahaha.......gotta love this man LOL

Bernice: We "mere males" are forever appreciative that women ying our yang,never forget that

Jim Dandy: well you can guarantee it will be a beauty, because it was written by a woman, not a mere male.

and as for being "scorned" as you put it....we do not and have not ever heard from the "woman who was scorned"....have we?

Bernice: The owner needs us "certain users"/"Troll"  for the balance :)

Yikes,I'm waiting for the books to be released
I can't say the irony isn't lost on me,that some of those who previosly held the power of censoring comments regarding untrest are now on the front lines of discontent.........and I have no dog in this race

beach: congratulations LOL....you have become one of us... the selected few...."certain players"....but please remember beach, it is your fault, not the site.

Andersp: she will be missed so will all the others that have recently left. Of course with the problems here at the moment (dare I say the lack of speed and ability to be able to even play games) you cannot expect paying members to stay

Andersp:She found it too hard to moderate boards when her pages wouldnt load properly, let alone try to play her games. 

Rose: Cant blame her...well i will miss her anyway

Rose: OMG.....another one....what is this place coming to? Fencer will have to put the prices up to cover all the revenue he is losing, either that or stop going on holiday LOL

Andersp: not missing,, quit

rabbitoid:

Where is Baddessi?

srnity: try to connect... obviously.

Boot me twice and then tell me "Unable To Connect" ................................w...h...y...? What'd I do???

joshi tm: Many many thanks to Fencer for that alternate Logik piece set. At last I will be able to play Logik without writing everything down on paper

Well, if I wanted to be nitpicking, I would say that I can hardly distinguish the new green from the yellow, and that I have tried to explain in the discussion boards why letters would have been a bit better than numbers. But that is of no importance compared to the new Logik pleasure I am about to enjoy !

By the way, the team tournament waiting room is a nice improvement to. After 2006 was a year of terrific improvements and I must say that I was a bit disappointed by 2007, this makes me very optimistic about 2008

Bernice: Objection overruled.

Fencer: Good, and while you are at it, take my pic from there....I have asked 2-3 times before but you wouldnt. Now that you want me to go elsewhere you can take my pic down.

ScarletRose: Actually, I want to change the Store page a little.

Hey Fencer.. one quick question here.. Does your Wife still do the Tee-shirts? I was thinkin about getting a wee one for my grandson..

coan.net: thanks for that BBW, but I have had numerous PM's today explaining to me what the story was....I must have missed all the gossip at the time ROFL.............

Bernice: The Brain Amazon status is not for sale (well offer enough money you might get one). It is similar to a King or Queen membership, for owners and management of the site and such

joshi tm: I wonder how this will work out as the red-green color blindness is supposedly quite common ;)

Well the numbers should work for everyone. And for most people the new colors must be better. Thanks Fencer, very good upgrade.

I think a lot of Logik playes will like the Green peg now. Even I though, confused myself often in the white and grey peg.

What is a Brain Amazon and what does it cost?

I can't see anything on the paid membership page.

clueless36: lots of suggestions have been made in the past... here's an example: BrainKing.com (coan.net, 2008-01-07 15:33:52)

It may help, but it won't do miracles if the problem lies in the connection, though...

this site has become the slowest site to play on..i wonder how it can be speeded up....thanks

Andersp: That's terrible! I just made 20 moves in that time... By the way: I played around a bit, and had the feeling that the time it takes to make a move is also determined by your current goto-option. It seems to be pretty fast when I have it set to "go to the next game", and it seems to take much longer when I have "go to the next game of this type" for instance. This might be a random observation, but I could imagine that the database lookup for the latter option is taking longer (perhaps because there is no index that combines timeout date and game type...). Anyone had the same experience or was it just a coincidence?

4 minutes to make one move!!  ..no complaint..just info 

Purple: Yes, i can see 3 Checkers challenges, 2 yours and 1 Nirvanas, yet if you are Checkers Captain you should see Nirvanas

Be so much easy if everyone could see everything

Is there anyway that in the random games and matches etc that we can have some kind of rating?

MadMonkey: You can see what I can't..perhaps because you are also Captain. I see only
"there are no team challenges that you can accept." The key words are probably that "you" can accept which excludes all but Captains. Rats.

Purple: You will only be able to see challenges in Teams that you are Captain of (you can not see your own though).

I can see you Checkers ones in there at the moment.

coan.net: Am I to understand that the Big Boss can not only not post the team to the waiting room but can not even see if there are challenges up there? That would explain why I hit "teams" and get "none available." This is unfortunate.

coan.net: I do understand what you are saying, the same as what Fencer said

BUT why can not we just have a simple selection box, like we already have when creating normal Waiting Games. Where we can select what Fellowship we are selecting it for or creating one for......simple really

A. I can understand why Fencer does not want to let a BIG BOSS create fellowships since it might confuse the system - for example, MadMonkey - lets say you decided to join the Random Team in my fellowship since there are plenty on the team in your fellowship, and I made you captain. When you go to the Open team tournaments, and you hit "create" - does the system create one for your fellowship or the team you captain?

I think the good compramise would be to let both Captains & BIG BOSSes create & accept open challenges - BUT if that situation comes up where a person is both, CAPTAIN will always "win" against BIG BOSS - so if that situation came up, you would always be acting as a captain. Not sure how much extra that would take to program it, but if not much - that is what I would like to see.

B. I agree with letting everyone know what team challenges are open in the waiting room - even if they are not captain or BIG BOSS. Seeing what is available might (1) get a player to talk to their captain to accept the challenge, and (2) might get some on a team so they can play against the challenge.

pauloaguia: That is what i envisaged when i thought of the idea.

I just wanted a place where i (as a Big Boss), could put public Invites (which i can through the Fellowship, but not via the Waiting Room, crazy) and also accept them on behalf of my Captains. I am here a LOT more than all my Captains, and it would be nice when a challenge is posted to be able to see it & accept it rather than having to wait until my Captain logs in.

As you say not all Captains are alert enough or interested enough to keep up with things like this, and all Team members as well should be able to see the invites.

MadMonkey: I'd even prefer any tem member to be able to see those waiting matches. A Team captain may not always be alert or insterested... but if some of the team members point out that a new match is open that they would like to take part in, the captain may accept the challenge after all...

Purple: Fencer will not allow Bosses to unless they are Captains of those Teams

Crazy when Bosses can do exactly the same within a Fellowship, by clicking on the link in the Team box (Create new public team challenge) and creating one for a Team there, but you can not from the Waiting Room.

I wish i knew the difference

MadMonkey: I tried to put up my checker team but not being a captain I guess it was invalid. So I'm having our captain re-submit it.

Yesterday, there were 2 red numbers beside Waiting games, one for Single Player games & one for Team ones
Team one seems to have gone