Bry: For what it's worth I second a teen board!

Bry: thank goodness someone else sees it.. perhaps a younger gal can do the moding as well.. someone like Harleys daughter?? just a thought..

Then they wouldn't have to compete to get attention in the midst of a conversation of adults..

ScarletRose: i agree, there has been an influx of youngsters on GC and a "Teen Board" would be somewhere for them to post about horses etc.

for the younger crowd.. say like a teen board?

SueQ: I agree with you the same keeps happening to me to.

aha, thanks Fencer. I had misunderstood.

Eriisa: Not the entire site, it would be a bad design in this case :-) Only the "visible" interface must be created for mobile devices separately.

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: lol

Rex Nihilo: oh...I misunderstood...I'm not much up on video games.

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.

Rex Nihilo: "BrainKing...the home game"?

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).

Any thoughts?

grenv:

Just for the record if anyone asks me if they can take back a move, here is my answer:

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.

Luke Skywalker: That is more smooth, I agree :-)

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.

Luke Skywalker: Only in one case : if before the game there is an agreement for a TRAINING game else NEVER!

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?

How old are you?

Gender

Marital status

Occupation

Relegion

Education


Personality type

etc.

Partica: to avoid having to add them to the friends list or looking into every profile to find the same information

Luke Skywalker: What is the purpose?

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).

Luke Skywalker: If their last action was more than 5 minutes ago, they probably aren't online opponents anymore.

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

Summertop: for normsal tournaments there is an option in the first drop down box

Summertop: There is for regular tournaments, so I'm guessing you are talking about Fellowship tournaments - correct?

If so, then I would agree - doesn't hurt me much since all my fellowship have at most 9 games - but for bigger fellowships, that would be nice.

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.

I think there should be a Pond win Info on our Profile page... and add a button to go back to the pond sign up page...

SueQ: I believe that is somewhere on Fencer's to-do list. Many of us have asked! :-)

Is there any way to move the "notes visable only to you" box up higher on the game page. I keep missing my important notes!!

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.)

http://brainking.com/game/Tournaments?trnst=10&tp=0&submit=Show&u=9133

It only shows 1 tournament you have created so far.

BIG BAD WOLF: thanks! thats a nice link .. i changed the last number to my id and it showed the tournaments i created

(not the ones i am participating in)

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.

Sumerian: All the tournament you have created: http://brainking.com/game/Tournaments?trnst=10&tp=0&submit=Show&u=9133

Why I cannot see those tournaments I have created when not participating myself? They are of course interesting for me, too.

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.

As with every other game, there needs to be a "resign" feature. If this feature is implemented, then the issue of what to do with pawns becomes mute.

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.

Summertop: Great post. Now we can get on with discussing the features as opposed to bickering. Where were we before we were interrupted?

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.

This board is for feature requests.

Bickering back and forth can and should be done someplace else please. Thanks.

I have posted the Moderators Guidelines below...Please pay particular attention to item 4.3 and especially item 6. In general I support moderators as I know the difficulties involved. But we were discussion Features.



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Hide me then
Ive done nowt wrong

This is all copied so the relevant mods will see a copy incase you delete it

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.