Fencer: Yes, a green dot at the top of each db together with an envelope for quicker contact is good BUT moderators have this awful habit of coming online and then having the audacity to play their games. There's no way of actually drawing a mod's attention to a situation on their board during this time.
Would it be possible to have some sort of message box alert for mods while they're playing their games?
If you could somehow configure the hi-fi of the mod to play 'Ride of the Valkyries' at full volume, that should do it. (In NOT a Floosie's case - webtv - three rings on her microwave should galvanise her into action)
Failing that, a red dot (or something similar) above or below games should do it.

I like the online dot too idea too.

You would think the message number indicator would help since when you scroll over it, the subject displays. The next trick would be to have a HELP alert rather than a message alert. lol

Chessmaster1000: there were some more links some time ago .. but i think this shows ludo well enough

(maybe fencer could add a link in the list ;))

Hrqls: With a little different board and only for two players :-)

Fencer: lol .. ok then i thought it would be a multi player game .. hmm .. got a link similar to the ludo you will be making ? ;)

Hrqls: I would have to put it to my scanner first.

lol ... hmm so a link would contain your real life address ?

Does anyone know Phutball

would it be a nice addition to the games on here ?

look up at mods ---^

Stevie: cool
Thanks Stevie for pointing that out :)

nnIn

hmm intersting, ludo with two players. i thought the same as you hrqls

Would there be a way to show HOW MANY of a particular game type are being played at the present time? Like there are 4000 active Backgammon games, 50 checkers games, etc.

EdTrice: Go to Statistics and click Running games.

Perhaps this is what you looking for.......

here is another page about phutball (i think its hungarian)

you can download a (french?) phutball program here (i just downloaded it, but havent triedit yet, have to go into town first :))

Is there any option where we can accept all games of a tournament?

from a particular opponent.. in one list.. rather than having to go through each type of game and each year.. ??

For example.. I might want to see all my games I played against opponent X.. so I just type in that opponents name.. and wha la!!

on the persons profile (show games with me only ) but you will still have to do each year separate

Jason: yes.. I know that route.. but, it would be easier to be able to look in your own profile..

Andre Faria: Not right now... ask fencer...

Fencer: WooHoo! I go to work and come back to find envelopes and dots. Thanks!

I was thinking was that if there were dots by the moderators names that were on the site at the time that it would be easier for people to know that they were the people that needed to be contacted first about any problems with that board. The envelopes certainly will help to speed up the process.

It also makes it easier for the Globals to see if there, in fact, is a moderator of a particular board on site, so situations could possibly be handled a little faster than trying to figure out if any of them were around.

Now, about that microwave three rings on the microwave.....

Chessmaster1000: wow that is cool!

One small wish for Backgammon, is to add an indicator that would just show if one player has broken the contact.
This would be a bit helpful, at least for me, since it would have saved me from looking all the board, at positions with a big pipcount in favour of me, so i could play instantly........

But the bigger wish is to have forced moves to be played automatically. For example the bar situations where i can't move, is very annoying to have to press sumbit........Also at late bear-off it would be good to have it move for me automatically in forced moves.........

Hmm, sorry. I wan't watching this board until recently........
What has been turned down.........?

And what was the verdict.........?

Chessmaster1000: the verdict was 'turned down'

actually, what is interesting is that ANY game where you select a piece to move that has only 1 legal move, the "legal destination square" is selected for you.

If you make a move and the opponent has only 1
"legal move" in reply, it would make sense for that move to be made immediately.

But, that is non-trivial to implement, and could add to the overhead of the site.

it could be stopped for making that forced move for you

like in anti chess i often hover my mouse over all my pieces to see which pieces i have-to move .. so that i can concentrate on the possibilities which i have .. that way i will less easily overlook something

if the forced moves wouldnt show up ... i would have to think about all pieces .. and likely miss some moves which might be better

so it can make it a lot easier for newbies like me when forced moves are shown .. but i think its less nice for better players who wont need it and might consider it artifial help :)

Andre Faria:
I've just been using the back button to sign up on more the one of several tournament.

I hope that helps you!

??
Clearly the feature request is to NOT have to continually use the back button. Else I didn't understand, but I find that hard to believe

Universal Eyes: Thanks Mike, that´s what I´m doing. :)

Maybe Filip in the future create this option. It could save a lot of hard work, eheh...

The button makes lots of sense, but think about this (devil's advocate) point, If someone sets up a tourney with ALL games listed, would you sign up for everything????

Eriisa: There are people on this site that seem to sign up for every damn game/tournament they can no matter how many, so sadly yes.

LOL, yeah I suppose they would.

grenv: That´s not my case. I like quick games. But there was a tournament I found very interesting and I wanted to sign in almost every game.

Just look at the The Hit Man prize tournament. Many players would find this option useful...

Highlighting of Tournament type and Maximum number of players per section with a red bold font

I had a hit of 820 games with start of the hitman tournament

Damn, i had a controlled situation of 370 games and know i have 670 games to play with this HITMAN tournament..........
Difficult thing.................

When adding a note to a game, the ability to clear some of the previous ones would be most welcome.
Or simpler yet: a check box by the submit button that, when selected, cleared the note box before adding the new note.

just noticed our profiles have shrunk LOL thought i was having probs when couldnt see tournies / fellowships / teams / and games data LOL

pauloaguia: *nod* that would be a great one! i often get confused by old notes ;)

Andre Faria: it would be nice to have checkboxes in front of the game types in a tournament .. and a button to 'sign up for selected'

i dont sign up to all games in a tournament .. but often sign up for 4 or 5 game types .. and am using the back button now .. it would be nice to be able to do it in one action ..

(although it isnt a very high priority for me ;))

In the crowns of Checkers,i find it impossible to start the final round when the fellowship does'nt have enough players to play,on top of that 2 people leave 2 are added yet still the fellowship team shows they only have 3 players,completely unfair.
This issue will cause every team tournament to be set up to win by anyone.

Since it's Fencers tournament i'd prefer a resonse by him.

eh?

Universal Eyes: For team tournaments, the tournament will be completed with the original team members that signed up for the tournament.

Even if a member leaves a team and/or leaves the fellowship, they will still finish any games they were signed up for on the fellowship team.

BIG BAD WOLF:That team should have been deleted after the first round in regards to not playing with there original team.
As well as the fellowshipship team shows 3 players instead of the reqired 5,which leads to double jepardy again.

Universal Eyes: The team that is playing in the final is the same team that started the tournament.

If you look at the fellowship now, things have changed and will show different player in the team & fellowship - but who started on the team now have to complete the tournament.

(Check stats for the tournament so far: HERE - where you can see that the current 5 players have played in all the games so far.)

What you are looking at now is the current fellowship, which now has 3 players left in the team - but the current tournament will continue with who it was started with. (Not who is signed up now.)

BIG BAD WOLF:

well done BBW ;o) LOL

Has that feature always been there and I have been unobservant? Anyway I think it's great

SandyH: I think it's something new