joshi tm: you all are right at some point. Playing bridge online on a turn based site could be a little bit hard but not impossible. You know it is almost done when you finish bids. You know your partner hand and you can guess the opponents' ones. Remembering cards is important for atmost one or two tricks. Anyhow, thanks for your interest. good to hear bridge lovers :)

ngsinan: AbigailII is right here. Bridge is a super game, but you have to take lots of notes to play, which is not good for gaming experience.

4 Player games are great to implement here at BK, Something like Ataxx 4, Halma 4, Dice Poker 4(or even more!) or Ludo 4 where board position matters only, is good to implement at a Turn Based Game Website.

ngsinan: Well, I like to play bridge, but I don't think I like to play bridge on a turn based site. Games on a turn based site should be those games where the current state gives you all the information necessary to play well. For chess for instance, only the current position matters, not how the position was reached (ok, except for the fact whether you are still allowed to castle, and for the 50 moves rule - but the latter hasn't been implemented). For bridge, it's different. By the time you get to play your 10th card, you might be six weeks away from playing the first card - well, then I won't remember whether you played the Jack or not. Besides, it would suck to be the dummy.

Furthermore, there are no 4 player games implemented here anyway.

i liked to play backgommon, reversi or go in this site. However, have you ever thought to add bridge in the game list? I would be grateful if i had a change to play bridge with you, nice people :)

IYT has a new game now called "Corner Sabotage" and anyone that plays Sabotage there, well they just plain love it.. Maybe someone here, with high ranks, could go take a look, check-it-out and possibly implement a diddo for BrainKing..? :})

tazman7474:    I was just joking!  Seems like I don't joke well in English.  It's quite OK the way it is.  I love all the smileys on BK, whether they are earing underwear, or not. 

Given the cultural differences around the world, King Reza's request just might be a good one. Although that broken toothed smily leads me to believe he actualy has a pretty good sense of humor.

Now this is the "Feature" Requests board, not the comment board. How about we get back on subject?

King Reza:  It's necessary.  Else how would the bubbles escape? 

King Reza: That would seem to rid the smiley of some of its humor, why would we do that?

Could we have the person standing from behind in this smiley wear shorts?  Or is it necessary for him to be like that?  

joshi tm: I had to stop playing Ice Age Chess - since it is impossible to know when the 20th move is when you have notations turned off. Still have a request to put some sort of notice above the board (like gammon cube stats) to show what move you are on and/or how many more moves for an ice age.

Fencer: It's also useful to see when an Ice Age occurs without scrolling when you are playing about move 70.

joshi tm: Yes, it will be useful when the rest of the notation column is occupied by a banner ad.

How about an option to show only the last 10 moves played?

joshi tm: http://brainking.com/pt/Profile?trnst=0&submit=Mostrar&u=17053&p=3

The top of the Tourmant pae looks like this

Tournaments(discuss)
Show tournaments created by me only
This page contains a list of all defined tournaments. You can either browse running tournaments or join a new tournament waiting for players.

How about an extra link: Show only tournaments where I'm signed up?

pauloaguia: good idea

In Logik, when you click on a color, you can place it multiple times on the board until you click on another one.
Can the boards for Espionage / Chess / Battleboats work in a similar way? There are 5 Sappers, 8 Pawns, etc to place on the board. If we didn't have to keep selecting them it would be much faster to place the pieces on the board...
How about: as long as a similar piece is available to be placed, the selection will remain on that type.

BIG BAD WOLF: this is also the slowest for playing at too. I have an extreme cable connection and still I am twiddling my thumbs on this site.

SafariGal: yea, that is how that site does it. Just about anything will be better then how the autopass is working on this site now... which is in my opinion is basically useless in it's current form on this site.

El Cid: BBW's proposal is already very fine with me, I don't think we need to make it more complicated to implement (hence less likely to be implemented at all).

BIG BAD WOLF: Even better would be a "yes, but only for "n" moves", that way you could make series of auto-passes, just to take a look at the game once in a while

BIG BAD WOLF: that is how pocket-monkey does it I believe

BIG BAD WOLF: Very good idea!

WellyWales: Yes, good idea.

How about this for an idea.

Lets say a game is sent to you where you have to pass, have a prompt that says "Do you want to continue to pass until you can make a move?" yes/no

If you choose yes - it will continue to pass until you have a move to make. If you say no, the game will come back to you the next move.

If the player says yes, then have a small note go along with the game to the opponent which says "Your opponent choose to automatically pass his moves until he has a move to make. So any messages you write them may not be read until they have a move to make." That way the opponent knows the message isn't being read AND it gives each user the CHOICE to use or not use autopass.

pauloaguia: Totally agree with you; please let us have this feature.

When a game in a multi games is finished, could the running score please be shown in the Message box

inpassant:

joshi tm: Actually, I don't think it should be turned on by default. New users may become confused when all of a sudden a game gets passed back to them with a completely different configuration and don't know what's going on.

What I do think is that AutoPass should be a one side feature. If I want to automatically pass when it's my turn, the system should do so, weather my opponent chooses the same setting or not. Weather I pass or AutoPass has absolutely no impact on how my opponent plays the game on his/her side.

I would like to see dominoes in Brainking. I think it is a wonderful game.

Vikings: hexkids grease monkey script did this. Not sure if it works with the new layout.

Is it possible to enter a 'tournaments entered' column on the finshed games page next to the 'tournaments won' (WT) column?

It would be nice to see what games a player enters tournies into as well as how often they win when they enter!

Vikings: ty that makes things easier

Thad: thats deffinatly needed and already been asked for

ScorpionOct64: you can also hover your mouse over their player piece and it will tell you their country as well as their sex

joshi tm: Yes, not enough. ;-)

We should be able to leave notes for ourselves in pond games just like we can in any other game. This feature is missing!

Eriisa: ok ty so much

ScorpionOct64: HI Mike,

Did you know that if you place your mouse over the flag, it will tell you the name of the country and the number of players on the site that display that flag?

Also, if you click on the flag, it will open up a new windwon with the list of players from that country, along with the name of the country.

Hi all....love this site and I love meeting people from around the world...would it be possible to have a page where you can see all the flags and the name of the country beside it ....it would limit asking each person in game chat each time you dont recognize their flag ...I only ask because some get offended if I dont know their flag...so maybe we can avoid this ty ..looking forward to your response

Mike

In Chess there is a new name in top position (kpaba), have invited her but she has declined. It's OK that everybody can invite and decline whenever he wants, but the case that a player takes the top position from another without playing with him needs IMHO an exception. In this case the former one should have a right to play with the new one for the top position, and a declination of the new one to play should be regarded as resigning the game.
(Of course, not only for Chess, but for all games).
Fencer: Can you implement in the ratings ladder an
automatic function that makes this feature possible?

Fencer: and when you turn it on by default, could it be even if a game is in progress? Also, does it have to be for new users? Could not it be in default for everyone?

Fencer: Are there any statistics how many users use auto pass?

joshi tm: Nice idea. Unfortunally, the majority of the games I play are against people who aren't new, and don't have autopass turned on.

Now, I can't prove it, but I think most of them don't have autopass turned on because they either don't know about it, or don't care (and then won't take the trouble to turn it on).

Oh well. I recently played my first game where autopass was actually used. (And I now have a couple of games that drag on because I have a pass and I'm not passing until the game is about to time out - if my opponent doesn't want autopass, he'll just have to live with loooooooooooooooong games)

joshi tm: Yes.

Fencer: Could the auto-pass feature be turned on by default, when a user is new to Brain King?

tonyh: Absolutely! I have a game like that which has been going about 7 weeks in just this situation (in reverse - I have to wait for a couple of days for my opponent to pass, when he has no option.) It is time something was done about it. The tournament I am in will probably finish about 3 years after my funeral at this rate.

I am totally fed up with having to roll dice, when my piece off the board has no way of coming back on. Why does my opponent have to agree before I can get an Auto pass?