:-) and I caught it. Easy with the amount of time I spent here...

Aganju: Since I made a quick restart, it was probably down for about 15 seconds.

Was brainking down minutes ago? I got the message 'server could not be found' for a while, and it was not my network.

MadMonkey: Let's try it now.

Fencer, a few weeks ago a few of us spoke about the 'Move and goto....' options

I think you said the ones we asked for were the easy ones to do, any idea when they will get done please

gogul: And I'm portuguese, so... I simply don't use "payment" at all!

ketchuplover: Which infrastructure should we use to that? I still don't use online payment :)

ketchuplover: bad Idea, much of the income comes from the advertizement reaching a large number of players, like pawns, so there would actually be an income drop even if there were to be a %25 increase inpaid membership

ketchuplover: I think you'd lose 95% of players immediately, and another 99% of potential new players - if I come to a website the first time, and they want money to start with, I just close the page. I don't pay money for things on the web, as there is always somewhere you can get it for free. I think most others would do so.

And having so few players suddenly results in the same people playing everwhere, which is boring, so more people leave. RIP.

Just my take of it.

Divide membership income by number of active members. Lower membership cost to $0.25/yr above that figure. Drop free membership. Thoughts?

xarmanhs: Your best bet would be to find someone who would agree to play a game to completion with you.

There is also the Fischer Clock timer, but that still isn't quite what you are looking for, I think.

Being a turn based site, it is really the "norm" to play hours/days per move, though.

i am sorry for buggin you but i am new and i would like to know if there is a way to play quicker any game i want. without waiting hours per move or something like that,,

furbster: Ok, ok... I'l accept your offer... thank you! :D

Gabriel Almeida: aha i can donate it to somebody who isn't :p

furbster: Hummm... you're a Black Rook... wanna be member for "2 eternitys"? :D

fukuhara: Yeah the bulb codes haven't been used for a while, i still need to catch two of them! :o)

happyjuggler0: Good suggestion, except in point 3 you need to check when your opponent made his last move, as that's when your clock starts ticking

rod03801: If you have a game with time remaining in the red (i.e. less than an hour left), I suggest the following:

1) Open up the game.

2) Check the time limit per move. Let's say that in this case it is 2 days.

3) Check when your last move was made. This should be under your name on the board and say something like "Last move: 25. September 2011, 10:59:24".

4) Add the time per move to that time listed under step 3. In this case, add 48 hours.

5) If the time under step 4 is in the future, you haven't used vacation time in that game.

6) If the game you just checked has for example 15 minutes left, and you have another game that has a time left per move that is less than 75 minutes, you should check that game too under steps 1-5. The reason is that it may already have gone into vacation time and had 1 hour added to time left to move.

All of the above should also take into account weekend time. Fischer clocks make things even more complicated if they add extra hours for each move made. Good luck in that case....

Aganju: I BELIEVE I used to be able to look at the old calendar, and see that a vacation day had been used. Of course that is a bit more complicated now that we have vacation hours. (Which I think is an awesome change, and very clever!)

rod03801: I did not get your point at first; now I did.
I don't think there is any such log right now.

Aganju: Like I said, I don't "keep track" of what it was before.

rod03801: Go under My Profile on the left, in the center grey block is a line:
'Vacation days left: 31 days 8 hours - using the automatic vacation' or so.

I understand the calendar was taken away, since all vacation is automatic now. However, is there any way to see when some vacation has been used? (I don't really keep track of my "vacation time balance")

Not a big deal.. But I had a game down to 1 hour, so I was curious if I had ended up using vacation time at all today. Just curious if there's any other way now for me to know. (besides keeping track of my time balance)

Is the bug with Quicktime and the sound while playing poker here (firefox used, it use to be fixed quickly!!) going to be fixed?

Or are we all supposed to go here now??

while this topic is discussed:
I think basically all of them are only useful for a while, and then another one is better. I'm finding myself switching between them very often; so what I would really like is the setting:
'go to next game of this type, if none found go to game of similar type, if none found go to next game.'
that way I could go through my 150 moves without ever changing the setting, getting the games presented in a useful sequence, grouped by game type and game (first all Backgammon games, then all Nackgammon, etc.)

I understand that this is a bit more complex, but I could imagine that such a setting would be nice for a lot of people?

rod03801: I tried to use it recently, and would consider it useful.
But I can live without it.

MadMonkey: I used to use that one once in a while (go to game with most moves). It was nice for playing games that were LIKELY to be near the end. (To help lower number of games I had going)
I haven't used it in a long time though. I had actually forgotten about it.

Aganju & rod03801: Thanks for letting Fencer (and me) know, i could not test them as i don't have any running

Fencer: I would think it was one of the least used anyway

MadMonkey: Go to game with most moves will be removed for performance issue reasons. Everything else can be done.

Fencer: Next Fischer Clock works great too. I use it all the time.

MadMonkey, Fencer: 'next gam with no vacation' works fine, I used that a lot the last weels.

Fencer: OK, from the games i have, i have tried to test all of them, but there are some i could not (Games with no Vacation, Fischers Clock etc..)

These ones here, just pick the next game on your list, rather than what they should do

Goto Team match
Goto Message Box
Goto Discussion Board
Goto tournament
Goto Game with most moves - Getting removed
Goto list of online opponents

Hope that is all, but i imagine somebody will find something else weird lol

edit: no Vacation & Fischers Clock confirmed working

Fencer: thats all i tried, as its the one i use most ...now i have put the shopping away, i will give them all a test lol

Fencer:
http://brainking.com/cz/ReadBug?bgi=1898
http://brainking.com/cz/ReadBug?bgi=1803

MadMonkey: Ah, that be easy. Anything else?

Fencer: Yes, it used to go to any game, Team Challenge Match OR Team Tournament Match

MadMonkey: What should it do, exactly? Just go to the first game that belongs to a team match?

Fencer: OK, looks like a (Bug)

If you are playing any normal game (single player Tournament or otherwise), and you say got next Team Match, it just picks the next game in line.
If you are in a Team Match game, and you say got next Team Match, it seems to pick the next one, UNTIL you try to do it again, it just jump out back to Main Page.

That is VERY much as the same in Messages when you Delete & goto next, it only does it once then jumps out back to Main Message page Hope that info helps track the problem down

BRB (goto go shopping lol)

Fencer: I tried it twice, and it just went to a game...will check what sort of game/Tournament, BUT it was nto a Team one...will go and check

MadMonkey: That works, doesn't it? It selects a next team match game. Not always from the same team match, though.

Fencer: Next Team Match game

Move and go to next game with online/offline/friend opponent should be working again. Hopefully.

I would have preferred the black box message to appear BEFORE I clicked "submit move" though. Now it feels I'm laughed at instead of warned.

wetware: lol....see, we need a Like button here...i think the same some days

Fwiffo:  I need a feature like that: a message box that pops up and asks "What are you thinking?"

Fwiffo: Sounds like some sort of adware? No? Maybe time for a scan? The computer discussion board has some recommendations at the top of the board.

Regardless, no, it doesn't sound like something you should purposefully be seeing.

When I captured a pawn with a rook a black box popped up asking me "What's on your mind?". Do others have similar experiences?

Fencer: Thanks for the info. Good to know I'm not losing it and remembering something that never was! I hope the feature returns soon.