pauloaguia: I do not see why someone in the states should have to send me (in England) money, it may as well go straight to Fencer

There was until a while ago a list of people in various countries, where what you suggest could be done making it easy. Sadly, that is now gone. They have not got a PayPal account for a valid & personal reason, yet because of this they can not get there membership, and so leaving, because no one has the time to help them with there problem.

i have done my bit, keeping them here, even paying for them to try out membership, maybe i should just buy there Black Rook for them as well

MadMonkey: Stupidly enough I didn't even consider the possibility that you weren't on the same country
Yes, it would probably be just as expensive to send the money to Fencer in that situation then... or maybe you know some other member in the states that could help them out too (and is trustworthy of course)

MadMonkey:  Setting up Paypal is easy.  Is it not available for your friend?  If it is, it's a very easy process.

Animal: I know, i have it, and he had it as well, thats not the problem. He can not use PayPal

MadMonkey: thanks for connecting me with him - im waiting for a response and hopefully i will be able to pay for him soon....

MadMonkey: I know PayPal is not compatible with web-tv. At least with mine.

Where did all the posts go from yesterday?

NOT a floosie: The cookie monster got hungry

Too bad. Some of them had very good content in.

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

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.

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'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...

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

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...

What is a Brain Amazon and what does it cost?

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

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.

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.

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

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.............

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..

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

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.

Bernice: Objection overruled.

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

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

srnity: try to connect... obviously.

Where is Baddessi?

rabbitoid:

Andersp: not missing,, quit

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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