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Subject: Re: Removal of players, stairs

Brian1971, pauloaguia: I put a post on the Stairs board about the same thing.
I am sure Fencer could write a script that would automatically check all steps and send you a message of available challenges for you(maybe once a week). If you have not made any challenges(after another week) it could either drop you a step, start retiring you or remove from the stairs.
It should only do this if there are players for you to challenge, if not leave you on the step you are on as it is not your fault.

10. November 2006, 16:27:09

Subject: Re: Removal of players, stairs

Brian1971: And since bots seem to be in the order of the day, these days, why not build a script to do that automatcially. I seem to remember posting something along these lines a few months ago... Let me see if I can find it...

10. November 2006, 16:19:32

Brian1971

Subject: Removal of players, stairs

I do have a request for Fencer. Could you by some chance remove the inactive players from the stairs games. Some players havent played on site for months and some dont even participate in the stairs anymore. Also since in my opinion some of the stairs games are basically dead, we should either remove them or do some sort of promotional deal to give people reason to play them. I like the concept of stairs. It is a King of the Mountain type of attitude invlovement with them. I would like to see them competitive. Thanks.

10. November 2006, 15:40:46

Subject: Re:

Marfitalu: The settings page has less information, easier to focus on the right stuff.
Anyway, he said he got it as a reply to my post :P

10. November 2006, 15:38:51

Subject: Re:

pauloaguia:Ok thanks i got my 1 day back.

10. November 2006, 15:30:26

Subject: Re:

Marfitalu: Or better yet: Settings Calendar

10. November 2006, 15:14:30

ScrambledEggs

Subject: Re:

"Have Fun": go to your calendar and check these dates on there
you really do have them down as vacation days

10. November 2006, 15:09:24

Subject: Re:

Marfitalu: Nothing.I don't no how you guy's see them & i don"t.

10. November 2006, 14:57:42

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Hrqls: I just checked.I do not see any vacation days on my profile,or 2007 2008 in calender.

10. November 2006, 12:55:55

ScrambledEggs

Subject: Re:

Hrqls: yes from my own expeirience they are subtracted from this years vacation days

10. November 2006, 12:52:42

Hrqls

Subject: Re:

"Have Fun": you have 3 vacation days planned for 2007 (i can see that when i look at your profile) .. those 3 days are already substracted from your total amount of vacation days

i am not sure if they are substracted from your total of this year though .. as the planned ones are for next year

try to remove a planned vacation day (from 2007) and check if you get a spare extra vacation day to use in 2006

10. November 2006, 10:46:23

Subject: Re:

imsoaddicted: lol if i didn"t i wouldn"t be here he he LOL;))))

10. November 2006, 10:44:13

ScrambledEggs

Subject: Re:

"Have Fun": remember to have fun..lol

10. November 2006, 10:42:01

Thanks for your reply's guys.Well now i guess i will not use auto vacation anymore when it takes your vacation time away he he What a great SITE:))))

10. November 2006, 10:25:51

Subject: Re:

pauloaguia: sorry i have never used auto vacation to let games time out

10. November 2006, 10:23:05

Subject: Re:

"Have Fun": That's what happens when you use Auto-vacation. They disappear on their own ;)

10. November 2006, 10:20:14

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Fencer: oh i did a week ago isn't that odd.strange i don't recall using it.

10. November 2006, 10:15:22

Subject: Re:

"Have Fun": No, you don't.

10. November 2006, 10:14:50

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pauloaguia: but i have 1 day left

10. November 2006, 10:10:53

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"Have Fun": When you have no holidays left, no, it's doesn't ;)

10. November 2006, 10:05:53

Fencer does auto vacation no longer work?

9. November 2006, 19:13:57

Hrqls

Subject: Re: is this right

Buz: yes, all games in a match has to be finished first before the match is taken into account for the rating points

1 match counts as 1 entry for the rating points

1 match of (for example) 9 games counts as much as 1 match of 1 game
1 match of 9 points counts as much as 1 match of 1 point

9. November 2006, 17:46:10

coan.net

Subject: Re: is this right

Buz: Because your rating was higher then your opponent, then you *should* have won - so by your opponent getting a draw overall, he actually beat the odds and was able to gain a few points.

The ratings take into consideration current ratings of you & your opponent, plus how many games you and your opponent has played. The more games complete, the less of a rating change there will be. But yes, it is normal to have draws change your rating.

9. November 2006, 17:42:46

Buz

Subject: Re: is this right

pauloaguia: yes but what was confusing me is that on that game i show as losing rating points but i won that game and lost the first so i was thinking i should not have lost points for winning but i believe they must wait till both games are finnished before the rating points are added or removed ?

9. November 2006, 14:39:28

Subject: Re: is this right

Buz: Yes, it's right. But indeed it would be so less confusing if the message said the match was a draw and not the game. (hint to Fencer ;))

9. November 2006, 14:36:05

MadMonkey

Subject: Re: is this right

Buz: Yes, it was a match of 2 games.
siddhim won the first & you won the second on a time-out.

So the match is a 1-1 draw

9. November 2006, 14:30:00

Buz

Subject: is this right

your opponent ran out of time
The game is a draw.

siddhim: old BKR = 1941, new BKR = 1953 (+12)
Buz: old BKR = 2172, new BKR = 2167 (-5)

Game type: Backgammon
Stairs: Slow Stairs

9. November 2006, 07:10:32

Subject: Re: Fencer

Fencer: With the exception of that problem, all the other Paypal procedures for payment seem to be working fine. Thanks for dealing with it. We can only hope Paypal gets on it as quickly ;)

9. November 2006, 07:05:44

Subject: Re: Fencer

Foxy Lady: It's not my fault. Instead of "VERIFIED", PayPal has suddenly started to return "<!doctype HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">" as a confirmation code, without any warning. I can only report it to them.

9. November 2006, 06:33:47

Subject: Re: Fencer

Foxy Lady: Silly, it's called the auto thing for the Bishops. ;)

9. November 2006, 06:31:11

Foxy Lady

Subject: Re: Fencer

Groucho: Well whats it called?

9. November 2006, 06:22:03

Subject: Re: Fencer

Foxy Lady:

9. November 2006, 06:17:19

Foxy Lady

Subject: Fencer

Wake up the auto thing for the Bishops isn't working.

9. November 2006, 06:15:29

Foxy Lady

Subject: Re:

Groucho: Yes i agree with you,you need some brains.

9. November 2006, 01:14:51

Subject: Re:

Groucho: Ok, maybe this has been covered. Since I'm a black rook I can't take advantage of the brain bishop November deal. But I wonder if Black rooks can get some brains in exchange? ;) I could really use some brains.

9. November 2006, 01:12:04

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Groucho:duh, never mind. I shoulda looked in front of my face first lol

9. November 2006, 01:11:06

Where do I find server news>?? ;) Like old news.

8. November 2006, 14:33:16

Subject: Re: Fencer me 2 me 2 LMAO;))))

anastasia:

8. November 2006, 14:31:07

anastasia

Subject: Re: Fencer

Fencer: I LOVE magic!! Pull a bunny out of your hat!!!

8. November 2006, 07:23:09

Subject: Re: Fencer

anastasia: Yes but no robot would be able to process them automatically.

You will have to wait for us to come online and click the magic button.

8. November 2006, 04:19:29

anastasia

Subject: Re: Fencer

Fencer: for those of us (ME!!) that still won't use paypal...can we still mail our payments in??

7. November 2006, 08:52:15

Adaptable Ali

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7. November 2006, 07:27:44

Subject: Re: Fencer

Fencer:

7. November 2006, 07:26:36

Subject: Re: Fencer

Groucho: You will. A new feature will help you with that. When it's finished.

7. November 2006, 07:10:02

Subject: Fencer

Nice touch with PayPal. It's soooooo fast and so easy to use. And sponsoring is made easy. I love the bishop idea. Now if I can just find a few more pawns ;)

6. November 2006, 22:35:13

Adaptable Ali

Subject: Re:

Fencer: Okie dokie , i will do that, thank you

6. November 2006, 22:34:24