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Funny you bring that up. I had asked Fencer privately the other day about accessing from the phone's web. He basically told me that it requires the entire site to be written in a different version that would be only for mobile devices.
bwildman: Close, but actually the opposite. It would make playing a lot easier by not having to be at home to play and not having to lug a laptop. The iPaq is much lighter.
I don't know if there is a big call for this, but I would find it very nice if there were a mobile version of this site, or at least "mobile friendly" graphics.
Maybe an AvantGo channel for BrainKing so games can be played offline? (ok, that's probably a bit much and there would likely be bandwidth issues).
Luke Skywalker: No, please, no, no, no. I really don't want to get "take back requests" after people made a move that turned out to be less fortunate, and then get nasty messages when I ignore such a request. People sending draw requests while they are hopelessly lost are annoyingly enough already.
Summertop: On other web sites I remember being faced with takeback request. I remember how that was painful to decide to accept or reject. I wish not relive those situations.
Me too I would like to see take-backs limited to non-rated games.
Spirou: I said: (of course the opponent has to agree) I think of a link similar to "resign" and "offer draw" that sends a take back request to the opponent. The opponent then has a link to accept, or he/she can make a move thereby rejecting the takeback
Spirou: The NEVER could be enforced by the opponent. They would have to agree to each take back. I would like to see take-backs limited to non-rated games.
I'd like a possibility to take back moves (of course the opponent has to agree). Also an option to add more time to the game (when it's the opponent's turn) would be nice.
This would make it easier to have training games.
Wouldnt it be intresting to have 10 questions on our profiles that we could answer and publish on our profiles if we liked? Maybe standard on everyones profile?
BuilderQ: Sure, but the link could be renamed.
Also, for some people, the list would be quite long. Could split the list into online (less than 5 min) and offline(more than 5 min).
Stevie: Yes, I was going to create a tournament in a fellowship. I checked to see if the same list was in regular tounaments, but I missed the drop down box. Maybe on the fellowship's tounament creation page, there could be a drop down box too. It could still be defaulted to the current team.
the "online opponents" link shows the last action of the opponents if it is less than 5 minutes ago. I'd like it to show the last action no matter how long ago it was, similar to the way the "friends"-link works
When you create a tournament, there is a section titled "Select more game types (optional):". It would be nice if there was an option to select ALL game types.
One thing I love about the Ponds sign up page is that you can see how many are signed up from the main page.
Suggestion: Do the same on the tournaments page - that is for tournaments which only have 1 game type, show on the main page how many have signed up so far. For example, for tournaments like my 5 limit, players can see quickly if it's full or not.
Sumerian: To see the tournaments you have created, go to the main "Tournaments" page and click on the link near the top that says "Show tournaments created by me only" which will then show you all the tournaments you created. (Except for Fellowship tournaments which is not included in that list.)
BIG BAD WOLF: Well, I obviously have not expressed clearly enough. When looking on my profile I can see the tournaments I am participating in, but not the one I have created.
Summertop: I need to apologise to you. I didn't see the last line of this post of yours..
"Ah, I get it. Just look at the list of players. If there is a pawn, just bid one more. That goes on until the pawn FINALLY drops into the pond. But, in theory, doing that would force the pawn to drop in the pond the very next round...What would be nice, then, is a way to resign from a ponds game"
It just looked like a normal discussion about ponds, I missed the request at the end. I'm sorry.
I believe the discussion was concerning feature requests for pawns in Pond games.
Obviously,this game is new and isn't perfect. Requests for different features for Pond games is normal as is frustration in not having what some avid pond players consider an important feature considered.
It would be nice if players in Pond games,who revert to pawn status, be able to time out or finish their games. The current system is throwing a monkey wrench into the game.
ALL the bickering should be moved elsewhere. Take it to the boiler room or somewhere, not here. ANY other posts not related to feature requests will be removed. 2nd time the subject will be hidden/banned. Period.
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As far as I know the usual mods hadn't seen the continuation of that discussion.
I'm already saying not just you. I said it in my last post. Its only you making a problem out of it and I won't discuss it any further. Any more off topic posts and I will hide you. Thank you.
(hide) If you want to find an opponent with similar playing skills to your own look in the Ratings page of the type of game you want and find a player with a similar BKR. (pauloaguia) (show all tips)