krybulon: Well first I would say that ponds is just another game on the site just like Chess, Backgammon, Jungle, or Frog Finder.

I would also say Stairs is just a different way to compete - kind of like Tournaments. There is another site I play at that I was a free member, and only once they started to have regular tournaments - I upgraded to a paid membership. Heck, on of the main reasons I purchased my first membership on this site was so I could create my own tournaments. Yea, the games I liked got me here - but a non-game thing like being able to create my own tournament was the biggest reason I paid for my first membership. Going along with that, having a template to create my tournaments would be very welcomed (that is if i could also add tournament name & description to template - otherwise they are worthless to me).

I would still love to see the brains / action points turned into it's own game type system - that is do something like you earn points for moves, wins, etc - but be able to use those earned points to put up for prize, wadger in game against others, trade, give away, purchase items like a personailzed rook icon (maybe a purple rook), or purchase the ability to have your own unique smiley to use that no one else can use. I could be a very nice system which the brains & action points just scratch the serface. But a system like that would also be something that would keep users here longer.

For example - what is better: (1) a user who comes on once a day, plays their 20 games then leaves until tomorrow, or (2) a user who comes on and plays their 20 games, then checks out the discussion boards, then does some other stuff, then plays a few more games since they are here, and etc.... leaving them on the site longer giving this site more opponents online at one time. Because without the "extras", people would play then leave. After awhile with no one around that gets a little boring. I can think of a couple of site which I like their games, but nothing "keeps" me there - so I slowly grow away from the site where I don't even start new games there.

oh no, you are wrong ... they come here because of games and stay here because of MORE GAMES ...
u r missing the point ... I was in and out of brainking several times and my comeback was always to see new chess variations or other games but never to check a new fountain ...
Regards,
Andy.

krybulon: Oh, no...you are right. They come here because of the games. They STAY here because of the features.

I do not agree with you ... people are coming to this site because of diversity of games played here, not because there are Action Points, Stairs or Ponds or Brains ... do you want to tell me that you came here as a result of "googling" for pente fellowship or ponds, for example, or just simply because you were looking for a site to play pente ?
Andy.

krybulon: I can understand your feelings. However, whistles, fountains, etc...are what gives BK it marketability. If it didn't have all the bells and whistles, most people would find another site. Fencer is not doing this because he is bored. He wants to make money. The games are nice, but the bells and whistles are what sells. I've seen web pages that offered games, but no pretty features. I don't think they are even still around.

no problem ... he loves to play bridge ... do I have to continue ?... the whole gamut of card games ( played in real time, named maybe "cardking.com") ... dominoes is untouched
with at least 5-10 superb games waiting for implementation ... solitaire games, board and card games ... sudoku and the whole series of japanese Nikoli puzzles ... etc, etc ...
I think there are too many decorations creating more and more confusions ...
Andy.

what are you talking about all the time ? Why do we need all those whistles, fountains and special features for our games ? It takes so much Fencer's creative energy which could be used for some other stuff ... I never use these brains, ponds, stairs, templates ... for what ? It's like having 900 TV channels while you need only 3 or 4 ...
With all the respect .. please stop it.
Andy.

time is ticking

hotmommy22: If it is that straightforward (click HERE to get the secret points), there would be no secret in it.

Can someone please explain the secret points to me I know it says:

This is the secret action. The amount of points is variable (from 50 to 500, depending on the points source) and the points can be found on several different pages

Is there an icon or something to click to get the secret points (will I know by looking at a page if there are secret points available)

I love the idea of tournament templates - I started to play around, but it looks like it does not save tournament name or descriptions (which is the hardest part for me)

Any chance we can be able to have this information also saved in the template? For example, I would like to save in the tournament name "Fast Start - First 5 to sign - Backgammon #" - where I can then just add the next number myself.

Plus the description is always the same also, and would make since if someone can save that information in the tournament template also.

Fencer: curious why i only got 5 win points for winning 3 battleboat games against different ppl
could it be i already won a different game type against one already today be the reason

"Snoopy": Yes.

Fencer are secret points still up for grabs in action points?

Hrqls: thanks!

ßăķëď Äłáşķǻñ: and because brainking allows weird characters in the user names ;)

Hrqls:

(( people say brainking is #1 because of various reasons .. i think its #1
because of the games which are supported here, great games! great
variations! and because of the people on here, always nice (99% of them
:)) and having fun at playing .. another thing which is better than on
most gaming sites is that the owner does respond to questions (which is
what i miss on most other sites) .. another thing which makes this site
better than other game sites is the extras like fellowships,
tournaments which you can create yourself, team matches, prize
tournaments. some people (including me) like new things being added,
the old things can still be used, but new things can be explored :) ..
add all this up and you will find out this site is in many ways a
better site than others (there are other sites though which focus on 1
or 2 aspects and do that better (like dailygammon) but for the overal
aspect this site rocks :)) (in my opinion)))

Exactly   

I couldnt have said it better  

nightmagic: i will try to answer some of your questions :

i am not a native english speaker (i am dutch), so i might have misunderestood some questions

• i think you wonder why you are redirected from this board to another board sometimes. this board is about brainking.com itself and not about other subjects like the weather or politics or saying hi to friends .. general chat is the board meant for that .. i think (but i might be wrong) that this board is a bit formal and should not have too much offramping which would bury the real subjects


• i dont have webtv .. but i think the site still works with webtv .. the new layout doesnt, but thats still in testing .. i dont know what the future will bring for brainking+webtv though


• people say brainking is #1 because of various reasons .. i think its #1 because of the games which are supported here, great games! great variations! and because of the people on here, always nice (99% of them :)) and having fun at playing .. another thing which is better than on most gaming sites is that the owner does respond to questions (which is what i miss on most other sites) .. another thing which makes this site better than other game sites is the extras like fellowships, tournaments which you can create yourself, team matches, prize tournaments. some people (including me) like new things being added, the old things can still be used, but new things can be explored :) .. add all this up and you will find out this site is in many ways a better site than others (there are other sites though which focus on 1 or 2 aspects and do that better (like dailygammon) but for the overal aspect this site rocks :)) (in my opinion)


• if i misunderstood, please post a message .. try to keep the text short and in dummy english so i understand it as well ;)

but liked it here till messed with

whos big to answer all ??? asked why can't we all get along??? I started on webtv, and still have it, talk to allot that say this change will take it away for them... Is this true?

now i'm in the back hall way! i'll be back but as so new is excitinting the new, i just like playing my games here, nice friendly people and games, need not to get so compl, for others and new. need my games weather here or at 5 other sites, like it here but to much changes each month..... not wanting to play other than play20, free. loved it before the change but understand game has to change, as life, as friends if they change they were never your friend. WHY MESS WITH IT IF IT WORKED!!!sorry! but they messed up. All got to visit here and play, including webtv, as i started, money!!!! MONEY!!!!! took him bigger, ok , not a problem, TILL he can't reach alot of the costumers that view the pop ups to play. Where is he now and where will he be when he counts them out???? i hear alot say brainking is #1,,,,, is it? without them.??? foxfire foxfire???? ??? what a nother joke, pick what you want do not in-pose on others... a brosser gets them there what ever they use.,..

nightmagic: not renewing my members at this time, maybe it will get better, or go back to what used to be,lol. not hardly, as mose would say... i'll be around but in my games... witch is where i wanta be,

on other board, i can understand as this is the game board to voice on, so many as i are not heard correctly. oh my! we thought this was the board and we find out theres another one, !!! to who what where how, who's on first? who's on 2nd to answer? who's on 3'rd to take up what any onwe else left off?lol

Hi Fencer, any progress in the Czuch Chuckers interview? People is getting anxious to see his answers...

ellieoop: Send a public invitation and ask the other person to accept it.

Luke Skywalker: If instead of 103 you use 1003, for instance, there will be no need to change it when Fencer adds a new game

then there's a drawback to this, if i play a friendly game and we want to invite each other back, and we have all games disabled, then we can't invite. am i correct?

Luke Skywalker: Ah, thanks, it appears that that trick works.

AbigailII: Do you know HTML? If so, grab the code from the settings page and add a game id 103 to it, then select to accept invites for that game. When Fencer adds a new game, this has to be changed again.

If you want, I can give you more detailed instructions in a PM.

Thanks for posting about this - I thought I had disabled all of my invites, but after reading this I found that they were all still there - since I guess it did not accept it when I chose to show no invites.

So I just made it so only 1 game is shown - even though I will reject those invites also. Would also like to see it possible to turn off all invites instead of the all but 1 invite.

AbigailII: Let the game type that's open for invites be a game type where you don't have a rating. Then you wont get invites from people browsing the rating lists.

pauloaguia: I agree, about the Knights/Bishops and Rooks.
Maybe the prizes should be relevant to level of membership a player has.
Obviously this would not apply to Black Rooks as membership is not relevant to THEM.
I think they should have a prize of another description, still based on Action points though.

I would like to see the Clinton interview...

MadMonkey: I think the difference between Knights/Bishops and Rooks in that matter is much more importante than between White and Black Rooks. And yet, they are all packed in the same category.
Most Baclk Rooks have AP's disabled, since they don't want to put up with the adds and/or there's nothing to gain in there for them. I also think it's fair to let Black Rooks enter a competition against as many players as possible - a dozen BlackRooks competing between themselves to win a prize is not nearly as fun as the same competition with over 100 players.

That said, I don't care either way because I have APs switched off

MadMonkey: Well, that's why I turned AP's off.

joshi tm: Thats hardly fair on the people that may need to win a membership, spend all month trying to get it with Action points, then have to win a Tournament as well.....
If a Black Rook wants to do that i am sure they could afford to put up a prize for a Tournament anyway ! After all they could afford to be a Black rook.
Would you rather not like to win a new PC game, or brainking goodies or something useful to yourself.

MadMonkey: If one of us Black Rooks win, they should make a prize tournament or pond with the prize from the action.

I think that Black Rooks should have a different monthly action to everyone else when it comes to membership being a prize(have PC games or something from brainking store for example).
Black Rooks obviously are here a lot and play many games, thats why they purchased the membership in the first place.
MOST normal players do not really stand a chance of beating them when it comes to Action points for obvious reasons.
All that will happen is it is won, then given as a prize in there own Tournaments or given away, not exactly fair for NON-Black Rooks and pointless for Black Rooks as they dont need it, let them win something else.

Fencer: I've a simple rule on all game sites I play: I never accept invitations. If I want to play a particular game with particular time settings, I join a tournament according that suits my tastes, or pick one from the waiting games page. I might even create my own tournament or post something on the waiting games page. I certainly don't want to explain to people why I reject their invitations, so currently whenever I get invited, I put the person inviting me on my blocked users list, then decline the invitation.

I don't invite random strangers to play - and I appreciate it not to be invited either.

I'm with Abigail on this one. I got a huge shock when I bought my membership and went mental with the tourney and team signups so disabling invites would be really good until I learn to control myself better. LOL

I currently have 133 games (27 tourneys) and I managed that in the space of a week or so. After being limited to 20 (1 tourney) for so many years I need time to get used to having that large a game list so disabling all invites would be really helpful! Although I don't have much control so I may not use it!! LOL

AbigailII: Why don't you want people to invite you to any kind of game?

Fencer: Play tournaments? Reply to ads on the Waiting games page? Post ads on the waiting games page?

I don't understand your reply. Are you saying it's OK to ignore invites for 101 out of 102 games, but not to ignore them for 102? If that's so, could you tell us in which games the least invites happen, so I can leave that game enabled?

Fencer:

Hrqls: Yes, sorry.

Fencer: take it easy please .. dont bait this into something that doesnt belong on this board :)

AbigailII: No, that's how it works. If you disable all game invites, what would you do on BrainKing then?

rappski: Nothing. But I have something against Americans who ask this stupid question.

How does one prevent oneself from getting invites? I can go to the game filter settings, and disable all games to receive invites for, but one. If I deselect them all, it just comes back with whatever was the previous setting. So the best I can do is disable all games, except for one. Is this a bug? Am I doing something wrong?