tonyh: Absolutely! I have a game like that which has been going about 7 weeks in just this situation (in reverse - I have to wait for a couple of days for my opponent to pass, when he has no option.) It is time something was done about it. The tournament I am in will probably finish about 3 years after my funeral at this rate.

Fencer: Could the auto-pass feature be turned on by default, when a user is new to Brain King?

joshi tm: Yes.

Fencer: Are there any statistics how many users use auto pass?

joshi tm: Yes, not enough. ;-)

Fencer: and when you turn it on by default, could it be even if a game is in progress? Also, does it have to be for new users? Could not it be in default for everyone?

joshi tm: Nice idea. Unfortunally, the majority of the games I play are against people who aren't new, and don't have autopass turned on.

Now, I can't prove it, but I think most of them don't have autopass turned on because they either don't know about it, or don't care (and then won't take the trouble to turn it on).

Oh well. I recently played my first game where autopass was actually used. (And I now have a couple of games that drag on because I have a pass and I'm not passing until the game is about to time out - if my opponent doesn't want autopass, he'll just have to live with loooooooooooooooong games)

joshi tm: Actually, I don't think it should be turned on by default. New users may become confused when all of a sudden a game gets passed back to them with a completely different configuration and don't know what's going on.

What I do think is that AutoPass should be a one side feature. If I want to automatically pass when it's my turn, the system should do so, weather my opponent chooses the same setting or not. Weather I pass or AutoPass has absolutely no impact on how my opponent plays the game on his/her side.

pauloaguia: Totally agree with you; please let us have this feature.