Wouldn't we all? I asked for that a few months back, right after I played my first game. I even made a few suggestions about it. Like having the 5 incoming blots not placed on the bar, but off to the side. Marking the hit blots, so they look different than the incoming ones. Putting a line to seperate the two kinds of blots on the bar. Having a sentence appear announcing how many hit blots are on the bar. Seems like there was a couple other things thought of too. Anyway, it has so far come to naught. It now seems we'll have to wait until the new year before any more changes will be happening, but I'd certainly like one or more of these ideas implimented to help improve the playability of Crowded Backgammon.

In the meantime, when I'm playing it and I've forgotten if there's any of my opponent's blots that have been hit I look at the move record and can usually tell from that. If my opponent's last move was not moving a blot off the bar, or if one of his moves was not moving a blot off the bar in his last turn, then I know he has no hit blots on the bar. That's usually enough information, but sometimes it happens that none of those is true and I'm forced to play the game backward until I can truly discern if there's a hit blot on the bar and how many of them. Kind of a hassle, so let's hope fencer will try to help us out here.