emmett: ◙ The Gammon Cube ◙ - it shows up at * 28 * in the link, but if you follow the link - the * 28 * is converted to

inpassant: The fellowship owner (whoever that might be) can now put a smiley next to a fellowship name. Probable just a BIG BOSS just having fun!

TexasToest: I would love to see more team tournaments - BUT I would REALLY like them to be spread out more - maybe 5-6 to start at a time (and not 15-20+ starting all of a sudden)

My suggestions - since Fencer used a "Bond" theme last time, how about a Star Wars theme this time

Backgammon - team size 8 - The Phantom Menace
Ludo - team size 7 - Attack of the Clones
Triple Dice Poker - team size 7 - Revenge of the Sith
Frog Finder - team size 6 - A New Hope
Dice Chess - team size 6 - The Empire Strikes Back
Logic - team size 6 - Return of the Jedi

Then after a month or so, start 6 more - like:
1. Dice Poker
2. Mancala
3. Battleboats Plus
4. Hyper Backgammon
5. ??
6. ??

... split them up over time - mix them up with different types of games, etc...

Cool - I just noticed the setting of "Number of game notation lines to show: "

This is cool - it's always been a pain since I hate to have the game notation there at all, but there are a few games where you need to either see the last move or know what move number you are on (like ice age chess) - so unless those facts are moved to the game board, having the number of game notations lines at 2 or 3 is pretty nice.

... still would rather not have it show at all - but I like it a lot better then loading 50+ lines of game notations.

pauloaguia: You can look at your BKR graph.

For example, your graph for Amazon Chess: http://brainking.com/en/BKRGraph?u=9839&tp=58

25 completed games, but 21 counted games (BKR Rated) - listed above the graph

I don't think typing in pre works if you are using the rich text editor - you have to click the pre button in rich text editor.

kintori: Yes, only you can see what is in your notepad.

Can we take the General Chat discussion over to the http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=36 Discussion Board. Thanks!

jadarite: Just don't visit http://brainking.com and your account will go old and not be used again.

If you need help not visiting the site again, here are some fun steps:

1. Get a piece of paper.
2. Write down 10 random letters & numbers
3. Go to "My profile", and near the top - click on "change password"
4. Put those 10 random letters & numbers in as your new password
5. Save & log out
6. Destroy the paper before you have a chance to remember the password.
7. Ta-Da, can't sign back on!

PLEASE NOTE: I have continued this discussion over on the http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=52 Discussion Board, in case anyone wants to follow it over there to continue the discussion.

Andersp: Thing is, where do you draw the line. The thoughts and posts of other people can be very unappropriated for kids, so should Fencer & mods also approve all posts?

The moderators of the Music board is doing a good job in getting a few extra moderators to help watch the board, along with the global moderators who will also be keeping an eye on the board. And I can tell you as a global moderator, if someone does try to push the limits of posting bad videos - we will not have to think twice to take away the rights to post to any board. So hopefully no one will try to push the limits, but if someone does - it will not be long before they will not be heard from again. And since pawns can't post video's, we also don't have to worry about someone creating a free pawn just to continue to post their bad videos.

But this is a fun interesting new feature... which in a few weeks, I would guess it will be down to a small handful of users who will be posting video's regularly.

kirsten: Yea, all outside ad's have been removed from this site I believe.

So if you are still having problems, it is probable some sort of spyware that is on your PC and has nothing to do with this website.

joshi tm: Looks like they chose to be private - http://brainking.com/en/Auction

But if you see a new black rook pop up soon, that may be a clue I would think.

First idea is on the tournament description, start putting a line that says: "Pawns, Bishops, & Knights: XX Game spots are needed to start this tournament"

Currently - section size of 4-8 = 5 spots free (10 spots for 2 games per.)

Why not just do the following.

Section size of 9-13 = 10 spots free (20 for 2 games - which for a pawn, means NO current games)

Section size of 14-16 = 15 spots free (30 fo 2 games - with pawns not able to join)

inpassant: If an opponenet has 0 points left, their bid for the next round will be 0 - so any bid of 1 or above should stay in until the next round. Don't forget about highest bid still gets the 500 point bonus.

More questions? Check out the Run Around the Pond Board: http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=77

Dolittle: You only use 1 vacation day a day - so once a vacation day is used, any other games with standard vacation days that time out in the day will get 24 hours used on that same vacation day.

joshi tm: Are you saying it is impossible for both players to have to pass?

If so, it is possible.

Lets say I have 2 men on my bar, and I'm able to bring 1 man out - which puts my opponents pieces on the bar - now both of us have a piece on the bar that may be trapped for a few turns.

coan.net: Actually ignore my some-what request below - found a link under "Information" - "Languages".

... I'm still not use to the list being re-organized yet.

AbigailII: Oh, OK. I don't see that page since I use my own .css file. I thought it might have been something by going through the players list page or something.

Fencer: Instead of making new links on the main pages (which I hide by default) - why not put pages like that in Statistics or somewhere that it will (1) be out of the way and (2) be able to find to look at without having to change the type of page a person has.

AbigailII: What is your definition of "active" user - played in the last X days? - where X is what? (just out of curiosity)

I've said for a long time that I would love to see some sort of "Official Tournament" - something ran by the site, that is "Official" - something that if someone was to join just 1 tournament, this would be the one...

I would say once a month, have an "Official Monthly Tournament" of all the games. One month do a quicker 2 days time limit, the next month do a longer 5 day time limit.

Then in December/January, have an official "Yearly Championship Tournament" of all the games.

This way if someone was to join just 1 or 2 tournaments, they could just join the "Official" ones which hopefully will be pretty big and fun.

I say only 1 a month since there are plenty of other tournaments to join. Plus I would stay away from prizes - except maybe awarding "Brains" as the prize - and maybe just for the "Yearly Championship" tournament.

But monthly official tournaments - A BIG YES - Something that stands out and says "Hey, there are a lot of tournaments - so if you are going to join one, join me - since I will hopefully have a lot of players providing a nice challenge and fun games to play".

MadMonkey: In a single elimination tournament, where there needs to be 1 winner to move on to the next round, the "Win" in case of a tie/draw is the person with the lowest BKR rating at the time of the game.

TarantinoFan: Depends on when a person has their weekend days set. So if the 2 weekend days are early in the 9 days, then 2 weekend days + 5 regular days + 2 more weekend days + 4 more regular days = 13 days (which may be why you see 12 1/2 hours left on time)

TarantinoFan: That also includes "weekend days" - which each person gets 2 a week.

In a fellowship, as a BIG BOSS you can send 2 types of messages - (1) message to all members and (2) message to everyone in one team.

Now I know if someone turned off the "get message from BIG BOSS" option, they will not get the message sent to everyone. But will they get the message that is sent to everyone on the team?

I just need to know if I can use that option to get to everyone, or if I should send individual messages to each member. Thanks.

rod03801: I think I figured it out.

Even though we use my own .css file, in settings, the choice is still set to castle.

Choose the "No Font" option. Since you are still using a .css file, it will still show up the same, but the buggy dragon will no longer be there. Wow, what a waste of a day tracing this bug.....

pauloaguia: A feature is something that does something - makes something better - this has no effect other then a little "flash" - nothing I would call a feature - a bug since he did not program a way to turn if off BEFORE he introduced it. It reminds me when redesigning our Hot Air Balloon website, I had all these little hot air balloons floating on the screen - it was REALLY cool. But even though it was really cool and worked very well for my browser, I did not realize that it messed some people up to the point that they were unable to see the site. Looking back, I know the extra fun "flash" for the site, I should have made it an option to turn on/off. Anyway, I'm babbleing now....

Rose: Yea, I went ahead and installed the AdBlock on this computer also - so I could hide the dragon - it also hides all the ad's on the site also. I just hope Fencer will put an option to not show it since I'm not going to be able to load the AdBlock extension on every computer I play from..... but I wanted to mention it in case someone else see's the problem and they don't think they are going nuts with some links not working.

Well I got on a different computer, and now the dragon showed up on my own .css file that I'm using - and after it went across the screen, all the links that were under where the red dragon went across at (like the "Main Page") was no longer clickable - like the path the dragon took is over the top of the link making it no longer work.

Fencer - going to make it any easier to remove the dragon - I really don't want to have to load the Ad Block plus on every computer I use just so I can hide the dragon..... yet another thing to load when all I want is a faster loading site... :-(

1. You have to have it on the Castle Theme.

2. The dragon is on a delay - about 15-20 seconds. So load the page and wait.

3. I think it has been turned off for WebTV users now.

emmett: The dragon comes after a short amount of time (10-20 seconds) - so sit on the page with castle theme and wait.

Pbarb2: On the top of the page, there should be a "Castle" "Simple" and "No Font" choice that you can click on. Also in settings, main page - you should see those 3 options.

Pbarb2: OK, did some playing around - it looks like the dragon is only on the castle theme - apparently another "feature" or something.

So one way is to switch to another theme - kind of strange Fencer would add something like that to discourage people from using the Castle theme, but whatever.

Another option is if you use FireFox, you can add the AdBlockPlus Extention - and hide the dragon image: http://brainking.com/images/gui/dragon.gif

Normally I would not tell people to get the ad blocker since it would also hide legitimate ad's on the site that helps Fencer get a little extra money, but until he adds a switch to remove it himself, this is the only other option (other then switching to a different theme)

Ad Block Plus: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865

Simply click on the "Install now" - then next time you see the dragon image, you can right-click on the dragon and choose "adblock image" and that image will now be hidden.

Fencer: Well a couple of years ago, I would change my name for special occasions - like "BIG BAD SANTA" when it was around Christmas time and such - until a trouble-maker user decided to create a dummy account with my old name so I could not change back. Of course we got that fixed, but I have never changed my name since then - and was just wondering if this would fix that situation or not. O'well.

In a persons profile, it will show previous user names. Question: If I were to change my name, does that open up for someone to use my previous name? That is lets say I change my username to something that I only planned on using for a short time and planned to change back - could someone create a new account and "steal" my old name since I was not using it at the time? Or now that it saves it in the profile, do it also protect it?

Fencer: Lets see here.... 250 new games:

1. 6 dice version of Dice Poker
2. 6 dice version of Triple Dice Poker (Ultimate Dice Poker)
3. Bankroll version of Dice Poker (26 rolls for the game - use as many or as little per turn - for total of 26 in game)
4. Bankroll version of Triple Dice Poker
5. Dark Ataxx
6. Dominoes
7-12. Pick some domino variants
13. Dark Battleboats Plus - You start with 5 shots each, but you lose 1 for each of your ships that are sunk. Not only do you not see which ships you sunk, you DO NOT see your own board either! (This is to solve the problem of seeing your opponent shooting 4 shots and hence knowing you sunk a ship that way)
14. Hex Battleboats Plus (play on a hex type board)
15. Hex Dark Battleboats
16. Rifle/Shoot Chess
17. Chessky
18. Dark Crazy Screen Chess
19-50. 3+ player games. Imagine Frog Finder with 4 players & slightly larger board!
51. Frog Finder w/ lily pads decoys. Add 2 decoys for each player that will act like a frog, but won't count against if "guessed". If guessed, it will not give nor take away any points - just be reviled as a decoy in the game.
52. (like ponds) - BrainWar - for 5-15 players. Each player starts out with 13 cards of 1 suit (2-Ace). You pick which card to play each round (13 rounds per game). You goal is to place the highest unique card. Winner gets all played cards. At end, add up value of cards - highest amount wins. (So for example 3 players - player 1 plays an Ace, player 2 plays an Ace, player 3 plays a 9 - player 3 wins because it is the highest UNIQUE card of the hand - and gains 14+14+9 points) Plus other rules with I won't list here.
53. (like ponds) - Dark BrainWar for 5-15 players (same as above but Other players DO NOT see what cards each player has left, and does not see current score (other then their own) – You can see what cards were played – but you don’t know who played what.)
54. (like ponds) - High/Low Cards vs. dealer. (for 5-unlimited) - each person is dealt a card, where they have to guess if their card will be higher or lower then the dealers card. If correct, stay until next round - if not, eliminated.
55. Scrabble like word game
56-75. Card Games! What type of game is missing from most of the turn based game sites? Card Games.

OK, there is my first 75 of 250 games. Fencer, get to work.

solan109: They have to be a member of the fellowship to play.

You can also make a regular tournament invite-only and invite anyone to those if you wanted.

Tulip: In settings, on the first main page - you will find these 2 options:

Show menu column on game pages
Show notation column on game pages

Turn them both off.

You won't see the game moves - and you won't see when you have a new message - but I can live with that since it makes the page load faster - without jumping around when it's loading slowly.

Tulip: That is why on my game page, I removed the left & right columns - so the board will no longer "jump around" while the browser loads the page... on days that the site loads slowly.

Fencer: By the way, just the other day I had one of my small tournaments remove a player - and noticed that instead of deleting, it kept it there to wait for someone else to sign up!!!!

YEA!!! Thanks Fencer!

Gabriel Almeida: I posted some ideas at some point somewhere.. I think, but can't remember.

But I would love to see the Brains & points system be merged - that is you gain brains for moves & such - very very small amount. The biggest difference is remove any true value from the brains - that is don't exchange brains for paid membership. But replace it with non-value things like for example, a certain amount of brains can buy an extra vacation day. A certain amount of brains can give you the option to post (an approved) message to either system news or the blog for a day. (great way to advertise your fellowship or tournament.). A certain amount of brains could give you a fun color of rook like purple rook or something. Many things could be thought of to be in the "store" - all of which does not cost Fencer anything other then time to set it up. Kind of like a "money" system - which of course take any true value away from it so it does not turn this site into a betting system which some block.

Anyway, I know I had some plans written up at one point - I think might still be in my notepad. My opinion - scrap the current brains & points action system, and turn it into something that will be used to it's full potential.

Oceans Apart: Well (1) I normally don't pay attention to the Brains system - I think the Brains system could be improved into a GREAT system, but as it is now - it does not impress me so I normally don't even pay attention to the Brains. The only reason I posted was someone below mentioned it. But in my case (2), I probable did not get it since that person did not purchase the membership themselves - but it was part of the Easter deal and I did something a little different with the memberships I bought and split them up some - so since the system did not do it all automatically where it probable is set to award brains, since it was done manually by Fencer - I'm sure the Brains is not something he normally thinks about. So if he reads this and decides that I deserve some Brains - Great. If not, O'well - as the system is now, Brains don't mean much to me.

Oceans Apart: Well that is what it says on the Brains Page: http://brainking.com/en/Brains

Oceans Apart: I always forget about Brains. I've referred 11 users to the site, where 1 is now a rook - and I did not get any Brains when that user became a rook. (Sure, I paid for the rook membership for them.... but they are now a refered user who is currently a paid member.)

Summertop: You can find a lot of the information on the http://brainking.com/en/Board?bc=136 Discussion Board.

Certain Discussions belongs in private chat - please take it there.

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Tigger: I think by default that person will get the bonus also. Of course no guarantee, but if you wanted to do something different - talk to Fencer and see if he is up for it - if it means getting more member upgrades, he may be up for it. (Like maybe give bonus to 2nd person or something...) Again, this is just my opinion - Fencer may say something different.

ellieoop: Black is the "random" chance - so anything from as little as 1 month, to double your membership if the system does choose 100%

Oceans Apart: Purple code for me. My guess, something with the April Action that he was finishing up the programming on.

I mentioned this before, with no response - and I'm not sure if it is a bug, or just something that basically makes the feature pointless.

In the tournament templates, it does not save the name or description as part of the template.

Those are the areas that for me takes the longest to fill out - and to have a template with those 99% filled out where I just need to make a small change for each template would be VERY helpful - but right now all that a template saves is the settings for the tournament - which is something that usually takes me 10 seconds to do without a template.

Any chance to get this bug fixed - the templates are a great idea for someone like me who makes a lot of tournaments, but un-usable right now.

gogul: I like the no-flag look.

In my opinion, what is needed at the bottom of the page, is links to each language..... like it is on the bottom of the main sign-in page:

English | čeština | Deutsch | Português | Nederlands | slovenčina | Français | Castellano Español | Svenska | Italiano | Türkçe | 汉语 | Esperanto | Românã | русский | eesti