Mr. Shumway: I dont see how to change the number of counted games on the top players list? Are you talking about the list of top rated players by BKR? Or a different list?

رضا: lets say for example you come to a game and see a message like "I know what you mean, that's too funny!" But you don't remember what you wrote and what they are referring to, so a quick look at the top message will show you what you said that they are replying to, instead of having to scroll the whole way to the bottom to see what it was you said. But I can see that sometimes you might want it the other way as well!

BIG BAD WOLF: Ahhhh,,,, thats only a default and can be changed, duhhhhh! LOL, my bad, thanks for the help!

When I go into a fellowship and look at the tournaments to sign up for, it only gives the name of the fellowship for the tournament name instead of what kind og game the tournament is for.

It would be nice to know what game it is/they are please?

emmett: I agree, it is a pain scrolling through the pages of fellowships to find one you want.

Maybe even something as simple as a key word search feature to help navigate the fellowship list?

I also agree that the fellowships have a huge untapped potential....

:)

Will we be able to make intra (among fellowship members only) fellowship ponds soon?

playBunny: Not declining any invitations might be helpful as well
;)

mctrivia: I like that idea as well....

Would it be difficult to make our "moves activity" (how many moves we make in a day) correspond to our own time zone instead of the "server time"?

pauloaguia: Ohhhh.. okay, order your list by "time last moved"!

Thats the solution, of course...

pauloaguia: That would be my suggstion as well. This would not help though if the online person is playing a game with you with a long time limit. Then they would continue to pop up a the top of your list. But it is not often that people who play long time limit games are the ones making many moves in one sitting.

BIG BAD WOLF: Ahhhh. thanks!

In the pm that tells us that a game is finished and what our new bkr is, I would like it to tell me what my new ranking is as well.

reza: correct

whatdidyousay: Yeah. Im not sure why but it obviously isnt that important here.

But most peole just type their mewssages off site when they want those features anyway.

Thad: AHHHHH! Whydya have to say that???? I miss Maui so much and now Im up in Maine surrounded by snow!

If I reply to your post it shows you in your time what time it was when I made my post. If am 3 hours ahead of your time it will put a (+3) after your time stamp and you wil know that it was 3 hours later in my time when I posted it than it was for you.

(now thats really confusing)

But I might be talking to someone from Australia who is 18 hours ahead of me and I am having a good time on saturday night and they are getting ready for church on sunday.... not a big deal, but would be nice info to have and it really isnt too much to add the way I suggested.

Where the time stamp is yours and the +8 or -8 or +3 or whatever, is how many hours difference the poster is from your time.

Not really cluttered or confusing.

furbster: 27 November 2005, 16:45:04 (+8)

Thad: Dictatoral?

Dryznik: Not sure if I understand how that is different from the tournaments here on brainking?

Socrates: I like both ideas!

Andersp: Sorry.... there was no intent at anything negative, it just might not have come out correctly in my written format. But I am sure there are some others out here who apreciate the lesson as well. I know I am confused with the language and it is my native tongue. I cant imagine how difficult it must be as a second language.

Again, I wanst laughing at you but the LOL was more of a chuckle that I understand how confusing it can be sometimes. Sorry if you felt I was trying to embarrass you...

pgt: I agree with pedro.... english is a complicated language, especially with context like die and dice, instead of dices. I have travelled a bit and I have found that most people who are trying to learn or improve their english do like to be "corrected". As long as it isnt meant to be critical or cruel.

Jump This: You can try your discussions on general chat as well.... I know one Iranian, Reza, who speaks english very competently, and is always very helpful in giving Americans (and others) a different perspective of the world. But you best bet, like BBW said, is to get a membership and join a fellowship. Although that type of forum doesnt include pawns and therefore does diminish the full scope of opinions. But is the quickest way to become a lying idiot! Sound like fun? *cough* up the cash ;)

Andersp: LOL.... dice is the plural of die, unless you have a machine that slices and dices your vegetables for you, or if the past tense is dead!

grenv: The point is that stairs were introduced as an alternative to the BKR or tournaments, it should therefore be seprate. If you dont care about ratings, then why do you bother slaming my request? If I were to play all my backgammon games with all lower bkr players where I would only gain a point or maybe none, my bkr would obviously go down. I Know because backgammon has so much of a luck element to it that people dont consider the bkr to mean that much anyway, but there are reasons to want to maintain a higher bkr anyway.

Maybe I will amend my request to only include single match stairs....

Since the stair system is supposed to be an alternative methode from BKR or tournaments to determine a ranking of players, doesn't it make sense to have all stairs games played unrated? There are some people with low ratings who it is not worth me playing when BKR is involved, since I will gain 1point if I win and lose 12 if I lose, for example. And in a game like backgammon with a lot of luck involved, it just isnt worth the risk to play someone with a low rating in a normal game. But we sometimes have to play these players in a stairs match as we dont have contreoll over who challenges us.

So I would like to have the stairs games unrated!
Thanks.

I would like an option to "move and then go to the next fischers clock game".....

Thanks!

Vikings: That may be a definition, but it is not necessarily the meaning....

grenv: LOL... and this is not an American site, is it?

BuilderQ: LOL... you are soooooo correct!

I was thinking in Fencers shoes, where it would be more of an incentive to pay some cash ;)

Personally I hardly ever end up using vacation days....even on vacation I somehow managa to get online for a move or two!


BTW.... why are they called a vacation day, and not a holiday?

I like the idea of having free memberships for people to get a feel for this site.... but I dont think pawns should be given vacation days.

Jason: He is simply asking for a new feature.... as this is feature request board.
You can do it your way now, but he is just asking for a different way (and easier for him) way to do it.

Czuch Chuckers: Yeah... know. But sometimes it feels like a personal message works better to get a couple of moves from someone than just a green dot ;)

Heres a good one I havent heard before....
When you check on your online opponents, it would be nice to be able to send them a PM just like they were part of your fellowship. Something like "hey I am here, if anyone wants to play"

Walter Montego: I love that idea.... maybe it could work like when there are new messages in a discussion board that we have on our favorites list, but maybe for anyone on our friends list, to show when their profile has not been read or has been updated.

nobleheart: I wholeheartedly agree, but I think the more appropriate place in in a private fellowship... it can be too much for small children without parental guidence.

I was curious as to why you left me alone on some of my comment in the civilization fellowship.... I finally realized that you are now a pawn :)

nobleheart: IMO, There is no way you could have a public environment mor world watch board without using the word 'debate' in the description!

There are plenty of the types of topics you suggest being discussed and debated currently in the form of fwellowships. Just another good reason to upgrade your membership :)

rod03801: The part that was the feature request had to do with holidays on this site.

There are many people here who only play on weekdays because that is when they are at work and have access to the web. (brainking contributing to a lack of productivity in the world) Hence normal weekends are saturdays and sundays, because thats when most(many) people are not online. Holidays are another day that we are not online as well. Agreed not every country has all the same holidays (Christmas and new years are a couple I can think of that are) But when one country who makes up over 25% of the Brainking population has a national holiday and therefore 25% of the people here may not be online (in theory) then I see no reason not to use that day as a holiday. Who would argue that if you can help 25% of a population without hurting the other 75% then why wouldnt you do it? If it works in evryday real life, then why not here?

AbigailII: OKAY..... We (the US) has more people on this site than from any other country! When you have more than someone else you have a type of majority. (not sure which type, I think a simple majority) Thats all I am saying. The percentage of players on this site from the US is higher (more) than from any other country!

The originol point was that since the US has the most players then it should not be uncommon for us to have a holiday, for example, that another country which has only one member, for example, does not have. It should be expected that the site owner would show more concern for a country with 25% of the population over a country who have only .001% of the population. IMO. But there are some who feel that it is more important to treat everyone equally no matter.

Chessmaster1000:I may not be the most well spoken person, but English is my native language, and I can tell you with certainty that the sentence: The majority of users on Brainking are from the US. Is a true and accuarate statement.

AbigailII: Please pay attention..... we are not comparing the US to all other countrys combined. We are comparing the US to other individual countrys! Plus we (the US) has more people on this site than any other country.... The majority of users on this site are from the US. That is a correct and true statement. Get over it already.

Andre Faria: Majority is whomever has the most....

Top ten countrys represented on this site by percentage of total users:

US 25.26%
Czech 12.8%
K 3.53%
Canada 1.89%
England 1.74%
Slovakia 1.2%
Germany 1.01%
Autralia .87%
Turkey .86%
Portugal .72%

AbigailII: Excuse me? 3 to 1 by who???? If you add up all the other countrys represented on this site together maybe... but thats not what we are counting. We are counting the percentage of each individual country, and we outnumber the second highest country by a 2 to 1 margin, thjat is a majority in any book!

I just noticed... looks like ladders on this site has been put on hold?

rod03801: Thanks, thats a cool one I hadnt seen yet. I guess my estimate of 15 countrys was safe all right.... I reiterate that that having twice as many users as the second highest country does constitute a majority, and I dont see why our independence day shouldnt be counted as a holiday on this site.

Andre Faria: New picture?

With at least 15 different countrys represented on this site, having over 25% of users from just one country is a huge majority. What country has the second highest percentage of users?