McduellMUG: the moves are determined by the time limit, the game you are in has a 7 day time limit so a move will be made every 7 days from the start of it at which time lowest bid in each round will "fall in" which means "be done for that game".
As far as points(BKR), It's never been fully explained, but its kind of like averaging wins from everybody that has fallen in before you against losses to everybody you have fallen in before, but more complicated.

as subject!

Universal Eyes: Is there any interesting/useful/valuable information hidden?

Where are all the pond runners?

We still neep a couple of players for the huuuuuuuuuge pond and for the one year pond!!

One move per DAY pond
Just one more player needed so it can start!

Technically, I don't think you can call it a tie for first, since there was no winner. I'm not sure how to properly phrase it, though.

Czuch Czuckers: yea, it was a rain pond - seen some 3-4-5 way ties, but wondering if anyone else seen such a big tie for first - 9 way.

BIG BAD WOLF: run in the rain....

Anyone have any other ponds with so many that have tied for 1st place.

http://brainking.com/en/Pond?g=1834 - 9 way tie for first!

Summer ponds are two days away ...

how many people do you think i could get if I offered one of my prize ponds?????

I havent done so in the last 6-8 months because of the loss of my dear Vern....but am considering doing it again>.........what do you all think?

Czuch Chuckers: that would be fantastic!

tonyh: I want some 5 minute ponds!

If I am away on vacation, I can usually get on to the Internet about once a week. Therefore, creating Ponds with 7 day time limits makes a lot of sense to me. There is nothing more frustrating than having to drop out of a Pond because you cannot get on-line.
If we had enough 7 day Ponds, then they would pop up with the same frequency as 1 day Ponds!
What do you guys think?

tonyh: Yes, it does!!! Now I know!! Thanks, marfitalu.

Does that work?

furbster: How? furbster?

i just copy and paste the links

Marfitalu: When I right click, it doesn't say anything about 'copy URL of the link'; it says 'copy shortcut'; is that the same thing?

I want to ask players to compete in my ponds; how do I copy the Pond title so that players may go direct to the two ponds?

BerniceC: his rating will dissapear in one month as a pawn after his last finished game

Pedro Martínez: yesterday I was number 7 on the list and ahead of you LOLOL....didnt last long came 7th in a pond and it put me in 12th place ROFL...

as an aside...my suggestion would be that once you become a pawn, you are put on a temporary "listing" and if you do not pay your membership within 10 days you should be dropped from all ponds games/ratings.....any thoughts on this????

Pedro Martínez:

Rose: shush! :)

Pedro Martínez: Ah, but you fell in a pond the other day very early. That will take you down a lil bit soon wont it?

Pedro Martínez: Well done Pedro ;o)

Zach: Only for a while, pal...:)

Zach:
Congratulations Zach!

LOl I am there!! I am the top ranked in the ponds although I am just pawn ;o)

I feel, as a pawn, that it would be good for pawns to be allowed into a pond. I am excited about the chance to play, but at the same time pawns don't always know what to do in a pond. So you could consider a "pawn pond" for them to try out in. Some pawns might like the game a lot! This would make one more reason for a pawn to want to become a knight or a rook, so they can play more ponds. That means more revenue for BK when the pawn is "promoted"... :-)

Thanks for letting me post!

Phil

Vikings: I just played 3 or 4 (good guess! ;). But I soon stopped playing them until I got my rook ;D

Mr. Shumway: 20 games vs. 50 games. I would think that a pawn wouldn't burn more than 3 or 4 on ponds, just curious, how many do you play as a knight with that limit?

Vikings: ponds are part of the games allowed due to the game limit for knights already, so that wouldn't be any different for pawns.

rod03801: maybe if ponds were considered as part of their 20 game limit

Czuch Chuckers: LOL.. you have a very good point there. Unless part of the new feature is that it is made clear that pawns will NOT be taken out of ponds early. That they will have to wait until the ponds end. No exceptions.

BIG BAD WOLF: But then fencer wil be inundated with requests to remove them from a game as soon as they fall into the pond! We dont need to make fencer grumpy ;)

Then we can watch the first person who sees a pawn, thinks they will auto-bid, and lose because of it....

Oh, I like that idea also - maybe a limit of 1 of each type at a time.

Yes i can see that letting pawns play a limited number of ponds would be a good idea to start more of them off.

rabbitoid: That might be good too. Being a game that NEEDS so many people to start, a bigger pool of potential players would be awesome.

BIG BAD WOLF: I have proposed another idea to Fencer: allow a limited participation of pawns, say a pond or three at a time. He said he'd think about it.

I hate waiting. I'd like to see Ponds advance when all players have submitted their bids.

I'd also like to see a version where (if there are more than a certain number of players, say 10 or 20) the last person to bid falls. This would encourage fast play. Or better yet, a -500 penalty for the last bidder. That's an even better idea. ;-)

Vikings: Just a couple of globs that I was upset with...

BIG BAD WOLF: I wasn't aware of that

Vikings: It was a good fellowship, but he kicked a few out awhile back.

rod03801: thats not a bad fellowship to belong to, there is sometimes info there that doesn't make it here